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Insignificant Wranglings
Category Archives: teaching
A Not-So-Radical Approach to Teaching Final Papers
In my last post, I mentioned that I was trying something a bit different with my current expository writing class. I should say upfront that State and programatic expectations for the course don’t give me too much wiggle room. The … Continue reading
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Foucault for Thursday
Most of my leisurely writing lately has been dedicated to baseball, but I spent some time this morning preparing the following for a undergraduate student reading Foucault for the first time. Her project this semester has been dedicated to queer … Continue reading
Lanham on Style
Here’s some brief snippets from Richard Lanham’s 1974 Style: An Anti-Textbook. 30 years old, Lanham’s scathing assessment on the academic and public valuing of prose style perhaps rings more true today than at the time of its publication (during the … Continue reading
First Sentences
My two writing classes today were focused on writing first sentences. I compiled a few resources to provide lens’ for examining all the first sentences they had written the previous week. From an article over at A Tate Publishing Blog, … Continue reading
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Facing Myself
Casey posted a response to my post yesterday to Facebook. I ripped out a rather long reply, but Facebook is having difficulties. So (sorry Casey), I’ll just move the conversation here. Casey responded to yesterday’s post with: Santos: I’ve been … Continue reading
Talkin’ Shop: Teaching Direct Quotation
I’m doing a nuts-and-bolts topoi approach to direct quotation today, and I thought I would share my brief overlay. I’m also interested in how other people approach the subject. In class today we are going to focus on incorporating direct … Continue reading
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A Few Resources for Class
Here’s some cut and paste on my part from comments on the first two weeks of blogging. First, a few notes on linking. When you link to another blog or publication, try to link to a specific article, not the … Continue reading
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They Say, I Say — Kanye West Assignment
Today I want to practice using the They Say, I Say bridges you read this weekend in reference to the recent Kanye West debacle. Take ten minutes or so to explore the following links and reactions to both Kanye’s interruption … Continue reading
Course Evaluations
Today is the last day of class at USF, so I passed around a course evaluation of my own design. This semester my class has focused on “digital citizenship”: students maintained a blog all semester long dedicated to a topic/hobby … Continue reading
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I never thought I would say this, but…
I actually find myself agreeing with Andrew Keen. Today Keen responded to Patricia Cohen’s NYTimes article on how the pending economic crisis will affect the humanities. Keen concludes: What I do know for sure, however, is that academic humanists — … Continue reading