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Posted onNovember 21, 2015

Taking Writers out of Writing

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…

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Posted onOctober 4, 2015

Revision, Word Count, and Readers

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…

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Posted onSeptember 11, 2015

What’s-Good-4-Them

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…

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Posted onFebruary 20, 2015

A note to my students: Brainwashed in Writing Classes

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…

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Posted onNovember 5, 2013

Writers Workshop

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…

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Posted onOctober 23, 2013

School-reading; School-writing

I’m engaging in a little avoidance writer here (blogs are clearly great for that).  I had two experiences yesterday (actually four) that have to do…

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Posted onOctober 13, 2013

Why I’m Angry–Maybe

This is far from an original thought (and yes, I am aware of iterative theory).  It’s probably a mix of Marx, W.C. Allee, and Steinbeck (who,…

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Posted onOctober 12, 2013

Keeping our students off-balance

A student sent me the following note (I have her permission to post it): Dr. Peckham, I want to let you know what’s going on…

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