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,…
While reading John Tagg, The Learning Paradigm College, I have thought more about the essential mis-educating practices that encourage, as Tagg frames it, surface rather…
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…
I’m going to try to connect three things: this beautiful day in New Jersey, Pope Francis, and writing as pleasure. I have just finished reading…
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 have finished taking notes on Laura Micciche’s Doing Emotion. Her book was well worth my reading. I appreciated most of what she wrote. And…
Two things of interest this morning: First is that I find it easier to write in here (i mean in this blog space) than I…
I’m going to permit myself a few minutes of undisciplined writing about the use of personal writing in the classroom, a subject that will probably…