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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 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 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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Posted onOctober 10, 2015

Post-Process Writing

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…

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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 onAugust 14, 2015

Bad Ideas about Writing

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…

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Posted onJuly 20, 2015

Naturalizing Writing—The Happiest Place on Earth

Wonderful CWPA 2015 conference at Boise. Thanks to all who worked to bring this off in the beautiful town of Boise. I want to come…

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Posted onApril 29, 2015

Walking Through the Door

Below is an essay assignment I am posting for my class next week. It’s a prelude to the next writing task, which will be to…

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