I’m keeping the syllabus conversation going. Below is an edited response to Bill Thelin, one of my good friends, who spends, I think, a fair…
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 had a conversation yesterday with a colleague and good friend (a lot of these posts, I realize, are the consequence of conversations in which…
I am responding in part to Cheryl’s and Drew’s invitation to rant about bad ideas about writing. In their CFP, they referred to the 1975…
I’m working through grief about Ali. I’ve been here before–or at least in a place too much like this one, but that doesn’t make the…
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…
I had another good day of teaching. I know that the secret of teaching writing and enjoying it lies in discovering writing topics that you…