A Few Ways to Teach Revision
Revision hardly seems controversial. Most of the time, most of us assume it is something all writers do, or should do. It also seems to be such a drag to […]
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Revision as Not Just the Same Old Song: Another Parallel to Music
This might seem like a shameless plug for my Pretexts book. But it has occurred to me over the last week of talking with my first-year students about the parallels […]
On the Lost Art of Public Whistling
A few years before he passed away, my father sent us a clipping of a New York Times editorial on the vanished art of public whistling. I say “sent us” […]
Bring Back Recreational Reading
By the end of my senior year of high school in 1974, I had read Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes three times, Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Oddyssy, […]
Lucy: Another Popular Swipe at Boring Old Literacy?
In summer, my wife and I, both teachers, have afternoons free and can pay matinee prices. The other day, we saw Lucy, the new film starring Scarlett Johansen and Morgan […]