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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Lewis Carroll’s Writing Advice
Nearly 125 years ago (in 1890) Lewis Carroll provided eight rules for letter writers. While most of us do not write as many letters in a year as Carroll would have written in a week and while many of us … Continue reading
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Tagged civility, letters, Lewis Carroll
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What Do Academic Writers Do?
Since my three sections of Comp II student have been writing over the past week or so in response to chapter one of their textbook, it seemed fair to me that I offer my responses as well. I asked you … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged 122, conversation, process, questions
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Timber!
Today is Saturday, and I spent a good chunk of the morning out in the woods cutting firewood. Armed only with a chainsaw, I took down a couple of good sized but decidedly dead honey locust trees. The honey locust–the … Continue reading
Good reason for not documenting properly
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Kansas English Article
Article that appeared in Fall 2013 issue of Kansas English Feed the Birds: The Place of Arts Education in a Time of Scarcity The central question toward the end of Mary Poppins hinges on how Michael Banks spends his treasured … Continue reading
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Dull Digital Text
I recently boxed up all of my writing from last semester. It had been done exclusively on the computer, so it was all digital. This was the label that automatically generated for it: Dull Digital Text. That’s about the size … Continue reading
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Emotional Correctness
This afternoon, as I did my turn on the treadmill–and let’s face it, no sensible person would have been running in that wind–I listened to a brief TED talk by Sally Kohn, a self-described progressive lesbian FoxNews talking head. The … Continue reading →