I remember when Twitter was new. This is not my first post about it, having written a post for my Writing I students back in 2012 and other posts on my earlier blog, Techsophist that have now disappeared. I've been using Twitter for a long time now, since 2007, and I definitely have a perspective … Continue reading Using Twitter for Professional Development
Thinking about Online Creative Writing Workshop Pedagogy
[ENG 203 students: this is about teaching theory. You will probably be more interested in the entry I wrote specifically for you about workshop etiquette] The traditional writer's workshop with creative writers placed in a circle of desks, one hopes having read the work in advance with previously-made margin-comments that they refer to during workshop, … Continue reading Thinking about Online Creative Writing Workshop Pedagogy
Here’s to the idea that “We won’t get fooled again”
For my Writing I students and others interested in how persuasion should work in academic writing, this week brings a fresh look at the logical fallacy by Information is Beautiful (found through veteran rhetorician Machina Memorialis). What they are calling "rhetological fallacies" are sorted with each category having its own color, all the easier to … Continue reading Here’s to the idea that “We won’t get fooled again”
Evaluating Sources Part Two: The Hierarchy of Cheese
The somewhat odd title for this post connects to a writing class example I often use for describing the difference between a good source and a bad source when doing sourced writing for academia (university writing, writing for publication...). In this post, I am going to extend this small, mildly humorous example to ridiculous lengths. … Continue reading Evaluating Sources Part Two: The Hierarchy of Cheese
Evaluating Sources Part One
Updated August 2, 2021 to incude updated information. This post is meant mainly for my writing course students, but others can ride along and may get something from it as well. Let's talk about sources in academic writing, especially research writing. So, in other classes, maybe in high school, you may have ranked sources by … Continue reading Evaluating Sources Part One
Writing Vacation
This is an opposite land kind of term: instead of taking a vacation from writing, this winter break I took a vacation from daily life tasks and made writing a priority. I blocked out Tuesday through Friday (today!) for revising a book chapter I was lucky enough to get accepted in an edited collection coming … Continue reading Writing Vacation
