Today was a milestone for me, signing off from a listserv about writing that I have followed and often engaged in for thirty years. In…
I regret that I missed Asao’s 4C’s address that has generated conversation on the WPA list, including some back and forth discussions about the function…
Recently, someone in my former field interviewed me about being retired. I told her I preferred to think of myself as unemployed. After I quit…
I feel as if I am tilting against windmills. It’s a little late in life to be attacking these sort of things, but I can’t…
I’m still reading Tagg. He’s not giving me new information. As I pointed out in my previous blog–Tagg’s is progressive pedagogy: Dewey, Freire, Moffett, Judy,…
I’m keeping the syllabus conversation going. Below is an edited response to Bill Thelin, one of my good friends, who spends, I think, a fair…
On NCTE’s Teaching and Learning forum, there has been a discussion about the use of first person and the writer’s presence. I am going to…
I had a conversation with a well-known rhetoric and composition scholar a few days ago. My friend made two claims common among writing teachers: teachers…
I am responding in part to Cheryl’s and Drew’s invitation to rant about bad ideas about writing. In their CFP, they referred to the 1975…
Below is an essay assignment I am posting for my class next week. It’s a prelude to the next writing task, which will be to…