Revisiting The Conversation
Comparing writing to a conversation became a commonplace during the 1980s and ’90s in Composition/Rhetoric circles. As short-hand for the many ways that thinking and writing are socially constructed, the […]
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Harper Lee and Rewriting
There is at least one good reason why the release last week of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchmen is good for teachers of high school English: They now have […]
A Few Words about Harper Lee’s Enduring Voice
It’s cool to see the release of a literary novel generating the sort of buzz usually reserved for a new Harry Potter book or a royal birth. But here it […]
Twitter as the New Democracy?
As a writing teacher, I hear arguments for and against technology all the time. Usually, technology is seen as responsible for bad student writing. People argued this way in the […]
On “Truthiness” Telling
Recently, a friend I walk with most mornings told me about a movie he had watched and enjoyed. As he described it, I realized that I would like the film […]