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Many of my students have heard from the elders in their communities that they have short attention spans. And their grammar is bad. These problems have resulted, they have been […]

To start the week off, I present here what I am calling a branding/marketing/self-promotion anecdote. (I wasn’t able to fit this under a hashtag, so I’ll just go with the […]

I am on a quest to fully understand and explain literacy—how it works, why some people do or don’t attain it, why it matters, what motives exist for it, how […]

And swiftly, another school year draws to a close. When I am teaching mostly writing, I tend to lose track of where the time is going. I find myself working […]

I don’t know if anyone still talks about discourse theory in composition. But that is what I want to talk about. Discourse theory. I have been teaching a new writing […]