Category Archives: Writing

Literary Images by the Bucket Full

Posted on August 20, 2014 by mbrowning

The Folger Shakespeare Library has released thousands of literature-related images into the public domain. This will be more interesting to those looking at English and older works than to those in American and newer literature, but I did find a … Continue reading →

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Lewis Carroll’s Writing Advice

Posted on January 28, 2014 by mbrowning

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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What Do Academic Writers Do?

Posted on January 23, 2014 by mbrowning

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 →

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Timber!

Posted on January 11, 2014 by mbrowning

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 →

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Good reason for not documenting properly

Posted on January 8, 2014 by mbrowning
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Dull Digital Text

Posted on January 7, 2014 by mbrowning

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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Ask Prof. Persnickety: Quotation Mark Query

Posted on September 12, 2012 by mbrowning

Dear Professor Persnickety, “i have always been taught that you put the punctuation in side the quotations, but the quiz says I’m wrong. Say it ain’t so!” Yours, Quizzical about Question and Quotation Marks (QQQ) Dear Tri-Q, You were taught … Continue reading →

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The Plagiarism Parade

Posted on October 28, 2011 by mbrowning

In case you have your doubts about the many ways to plagiarize, watch this video…

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