A Few Issues with Personal Writing
Experience represents a broad path to learning. In many ways, it teaches us what we rarely encounter in school, and it can still teach us when we begin to write […]
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A Small Nod to Peter Elbow and Ken Macrorie
I found the expressivist school in Composition Studies to be enlightening. When I first read Peter Elbow and Ken Macrorie (it was 1985 and I was in graduate school), I […]
What Would Plato Say?
I’m getting ready to teach a Humanities course this fall on Classical Greek Rhetoric. I am excited, but at the same time, as I re-read some wonderful, classical texts that […]
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 […]
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 […]