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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 should be doing other work, but I have continued to struggle through Micciche’s Doing Emotion this morning. The reading struggle has changed as I…
Below is a note that I sent to my students about our next essay: OK, here’s what I’m thinking about this next essay or re-vision…