Category Archives: More than you want to know

I like Marvin Diogenes’ essay “A Modified Smiley: Using an Analytic Approach in the Writing Workshop” enough to let it influence how I teach. Ken Bain’s What the Best College Teachers Do has also influenced me, as has John C. … Continue reading →

We’re reading The River at the Center of the World so we can feel prepared for our big trip.

Here are your assignments for Friday, 06 Nov 09. 2250 Using the material you wrote and emailed me in class the last time we met, complete exercise one on page 206. Use this, like all the exercises in class, as a … Continue reading →

2010 (both sections) Proceed with the peer review we have planned. Be sure to email the completed forms to me as well as the peer whose work you review. The link “logos, ethos, and pathos” under 2010 can help you … Continue reading →

and so I won’t be at school today.   2250 Workshop without me. You don’t need to email the completed forms to me this time.   3510 Keep up with the assigned reading. We’ll talk about the first big chunk … Continue reading →

I may be a little late today.

Most classes offered by the English department are full. This is especially true of the composition sequence, 1010 and 2010. If you’d like to add a class I’m teaching, you’ll need to watch UVlink for an opening.

and in “meat space/the big blue room” rather than online. Once we’re in the new house, I’ll post more often.

Sickness all around at my house yesterday.

Next year I’m going to try to shave more often. Also, develop ambition.