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…
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,…
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…
I would like to write about revision this morning–that, and maybe about ways to frame writing assignments. Decades ago, I shifted from minimum word count…
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…
I have had a few difficult experiences in the past several days, not the least of which has been my ill-advised zinger on plagiarism on…
I spend most of my day writing or reading and thinking about writing. I know I’m trying to reforge my identity by all the writing…