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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I will try to make this post uncharacteristically quick because I’m tying to write out a thought that I am using in another essay. I…
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…