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Posted onMarch 31, 2021April 1, 2021

On Getting Over Oxy

3.29.2021: I’m having a difficult time, perhaps the consequence of going off oxycodone after my hip-replacement four weeks ago. I can see why people don’t…

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Posted onAugust 15, 2020August 15, 2020

Anniversary

Sarah and I were married forty-nine years ago today. I thought about this when I woke up this morning. Today was my first morning back…

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Posted onMarch 24, 2019March 26, 2019

The Right Space

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…

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Posted onOctober 18, 2018February 12, 2019

Being Retired

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…

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Posted onMarch 10, 2016

Tilting against Grades

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…

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Posted onFebruary 12, 2016

The Displeasure of Reading and Writing

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,…

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Posted onFebruary 8, 2016

Objectifying (Student) Texts

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…

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Posted onNovember 25, 2015

Writing for Social Justice

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…

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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 onNovember 5, 2015

The Research Paper

A recent discussion on the WPA list concerning documentation styles made me think of some essays my students wrote recently. With Joe Harris and Patty…

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