Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2: Veteran Identity & Inclusion

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans

understanding, and make clear toveterans and their classroom peers the relevance of military writing for all kinds of writing, evenconventional academic prose [9].Instructors can and should address military service in a way that can be comfortable andgenerative through knowledge of military writing experiences. Hadlock notes that despite theirstated discomfort in a writing classroom, veteran students often have previous training in writingconcepts, but they can also fail to connect previous training with the kind of assignments foundin college writing classes [9]. Veteran students need to know how the elements taught in acomposition class are expansions of ideas to which they have already had exposure. TWCinstructors with a military background may be