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Dr. Rita Smilkstein and the Natural Human Learning Process
In this video, Dr. Rita Smilkstein talks about her inspiration for developing the Natural Human Learning Process. The result of her teaching and working on this for the past 30 years has been a new book - Tools For Writing - that will be published this summer in time for the fall semester.
The Natural Human Learning Process in Action
This video shows how NHLP actually works in a classroom. The class is a developmental english class at Olgala Lakota College, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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A Blog from one of our writers
Jamie Lee has a new Blog where she shares her experiences teaching the NHLP and thoughts about life and family.A Noun by Any Other Name
It’s a funny thing, this battle I have in my life with process nouns. Technically, they are called nominalizations—process words turned into “things”. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, woman, teacher—writer--instead of wifing, mothering, grandmothering, etc. When a process becomes a noun it is like flowing water that suddenly freezes. All movement is gone. We have to guard against these notorious nouns. Most of us begin writing like we begin a romance—it is a getting to know you process where we probe to better understand our world and how it works. We scribble our dirty little se... Read MoreNew Publication!
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