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Ammunition for the New Culture Wars: Writing, College, and More Writing
Sometime in August I decided I’d go from blogging once a week (roughly) to blogging once a month. I’d be busy writing so I wouldn’t be able to write. At least not write this blog, with its dubious relationship to … Continue reading
Posted in The Culture Wars, Then and Now
Tagged culture wars, Delbanco, writing across the curriculum
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Writing Wisdom from Professor September
Every September, I have the same dream: I am not going to graduate from college. The undergraduate kind. I did graduate, seventeen years ago in 1995. But that doesn’t mean I won’t be found out (unpaid library fines, unsigned Bursar … Continue reading
The Tao of Summer Camp: Complexity in a Word
Last week, I spent many hours in the car and a few out in the wilderness north and west of New York City. My oldest child and I were “touring” potential sleep-away camps. I know that’s a whole year away. … Continue reading
Moving from the Middle: The Definition of Meaning
Last week I reflected on an article I am writing about an influential 1994 conference on the sciences of “Complexity.” I am making a connection between this conference and the way we understand, enact, and teach writing. I am using … Continue reading
Paradox Found: How To Write About Complexity
I’m writing on article on complexity. But then who isn’t? And there you have it. The ultimate non-discovery of my subject of study. Writing and complexity are everywhere already written. Put in another way, the article has to be finished … Continue reading
It’s Hard to Run in High Altitudes and Other Reflections on Writing with Mindfulness
I’m writing this post above the clouds, on route home to NYC after three days in Estes Park, Colorado for the AEPL conference, “Inviting the Edge: Mindfulness in the Writing Classroom and Beyond.” Here I respond to the question any … Continue reading
Writers Block
Last year, in the name of progress, I stopped recycling. No more retooling old writing material for new purposes. Sustainability be damned; I would forgo one of the key lessons of graduate school and go it alone: make it new, … Continue reading
Posted in What is Composition Studies?, Writing
Tagged Jane Bennett, Randall Collins, readers block, Steven Johnson, writers block
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Reading Block
I ended the last post having finished The Future of Invention Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change by John Muckelbauer (SUNY UP, 2008), which I read while putting another book on hold, David Denby’s Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, … Continue reading
