A Call for the Enthymeme and a More Civil Discourse
One of the chapters in my textbook, Pretexts for Writing, goes out on something of a theoretical limb. Yes, I wrote a textbook–for first-year writing. My main reasons for thinking […]
Blog
Where are the Heroes?
Many years ago, as a new graduate student, I enrolled in a Milton seminar. Our focus for the entire course was to be Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost. Fewer and […]
A View from a Sabbatical
In another blog, I’ve admitted to keeping journals at different periods of my life. I’ve done this to develop as a writer, not so much to record events. My life […]
Are We Teaching the Real Subject?
In another blog elsewhere, I have argued that when it comes to teaching writing, educators sometimes play the blame game. No matter what level of writing they are working with, […]
It’s Hard Being Easy
Looks can be deceiving. I remember watching a heavy metal band acting as though the real power in their guitars was coming through their mighty strums. They’d grimace and reach […]