With my one-year contract, my classes sections have had to complete student evaluation during the fourth week of both the fall and spring semesters. As…
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I have followed the last two weeks as professors in fields that supposedly study critical thinking, decision making, fallacies, persuasion, and so on, have quickly…
Comments closedTeaching traditional “English” was never my ambition. When I considered teaching as a high school student, I wanted to teach media: journalism, photography, and television…
Comments closedWriting is how I relate to myself and to others. Writing has been a part of my life since at least the second grade when…
Leave a CommentDonald Trump knows what he is saying when he utters racist, sexist, xenophobic phrases. I also assume he believes what he says, based on various…
Comments closedIt’s Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. And like Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day, it is another exciting day of grading ahead. And another. And another.…
Comments closedTeaching first-year composition (FYC) only reinforces my view that dedicated teacher-scholars from the field of composition, with a current and deep understanding of the field,…
Comments closedThe humanities most definitely are in crisis at our colleges and universities… and for good reasons. I tire of the stories about millionaires and billionaires…
Comments closedFar from the perfect professor with eidetic recall and charisma, I am the first to announce to students that I will make mistakes during a…
Comments closed“…It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it,” observes the mysterious Inspector Goole in J. B. Priestly’s An Inspector Calls. The rhetoric of…
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