I’m probably violating several protocols here, but I can’t help myself. I want to make Sarah’s essay on the essay more than just a comment…
I have been reading/listening to Zealot: the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan. Aslan gives us a fascinating, historically contextualized account…
I had a student say after posting her firsthand portrait: This is so different from high school writing: I can write what I think instead…
I will try to make this post uncharacteristically quick because I’m tying to write out a thought that I am using in another essay. I…
I had a conversation yesterday with a colleague and good friend (a lot of these posts, I realize, are the consequence of conversations in which…
I would like to write about revision this morning–that, and maybe about ways to frame writing assignments. Decades ago, I shifted from minimum word count…