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Parables for Our Time: Of Burke’s Parlor and the Braindead Megaphone

Students of rhetoric are familiar with a Kenneth Burke passage that describes a parlor in which people have gathered, where the give and take of conversation has been happening freely […]

The Fine Art of Minimal Marking

Last week, I participated in a meeting with other teachers who were in their first hours of teaching a writing class in their field. The challenge for them was that […]

A Season of Incarnation

Here we are again. Christians around the world are preparing to celebrate the incarnation, the time when we believe God became human and lived among us. This seems as good […]

Some Thoughts about Teaching Personal Writing Assignments

Should I teach personal writing in my first-year writing course? This is a question I pose every semester I prepare to teach first-year writing. The question is complicated for me […]