Or is it Just that Fiction is so Real?: A Summer Musing
I’m always surprised to learn that there are people in the world who don’t like to read. Not only do they not read much: they don’t get that they shouldn’t […]
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Of Declining Literacy Rates and Technological Natives
Many of my students have heard from the elders in their communities that they have short attention spans. And their grammar is bad. These problems have resulted, they have been […]
The Souls of Readers: A Marketing “Guide”
To start the week off, I present here what I am calling a branding/marketing/self-promotion anecdote. (I wasn’t able to fit this under a hashtag, so I’ll just go with the […]
Freewriting, Literacy, and the Key of E-flat
I am on a quest to fully understand and explain literacy—how it works, why some people do or don’t attain it, why it matters, what motives exist for it, how […]
How Far Will the Rules Carry Us?
And swiftly, another school year draws to a close. When I am teaching mostly writing, I tend to lose track of where the time is going. I find myself working […]