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 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…
On the WPA-l listserv, Kathleen Shine Cain asked for articles on writing for social justice. I think she has in mind a course teaching or encouraging…
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…
Below is a note that I sent to my students about our next essay: OK, here’s what I’m thinking about this next essay or re-vision…
I only want to start a post–my method of getting something down. The overall theme of this blog is productive ways of helping students with…
I’m trying to think carefully about a friend’s concerns of citation practices. I have to confess that until she brought her concern to my attention,…