Donald Trump’s Adjectives
Sometimes, adjectives can be a most interesting marker in a writer’s style. Many writers cut them, but they are like dandelions. We can’t cut them all, and when we find […]
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On Revising Our View of Revision
I realize that I write a great deal about revision. It seems to go with the territory (the territory of being a teacher who is trying to write.) This past […]
A Meditation on the Nose
“I love your nose.” I heard this line in a real, if ill-fated, two-month romance in college. During that watery, dreamy time, I also heard loving references to other facial […]
The New Dis’
A friend and fellow teacher of rhetoric I work with often stops me outside of our offices to remind me of a fairly famous pronouncement from Aristotle. “The enthymeme,” my […]
Everything You Should have Learned about Politics (and Trump) in High School
Today marks the start of the fifth week of the college semester where I teach, and predicable things are happening as we enter this time. I should, of course, be […]