What are You Doing for Nanowrimo?
“What will you be writing for Nanowrimo this year?” the email asked. The question caused my heart beat to quicken. I hadn’t been thinking about it, but now suddenly I […]
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Habit or Skill?
I have often heard writing referred to as a skill. This seems so straightforward and natural that it’s not worth mentioning. But what we call something has consequences for how […]
A Few Issues with Personal Writing
Experience represents a broad path to learning. In many ways, it teaches us what we rarely encounter in school, and it can still teach us when we begin to write […]
A Small Nod to Peter Elbow and Ken Macrorie
I found the expressivist school in Composition Studies to be enlightening. When I first read Peter Elbow and Ken Macrorie (it was 1985 and I was in graduate school), I […]
What Would Plato Say?
I’m getting ready to teach a Humanities course this fall on Classical Greek Rhetoric. I am excited, but at the same time, as I re-read some wonderful, classical texts that […]