Less reading, more “writing”
To my mind, reading and writing are just things one does in a college class. As students’ language skills decline, assigning less reading and more “writing” solves nothing.
Grammar in the writing center
To dismiss or defer a student’s questions about grammar is to do that student a disservice.
“Are We Teaching Composition All Wrong?”
Provocative reading in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
“Rewording”
“Rewording” without attribution is plagiarism, though perhaps in a hapless and unsophisticated form.
A voice from a term-paper mill
Writing other people's papers
"The Essay Writing Song"
Fred Rogers, imaginary advice for college students
On "On the New Literacy"
So what do you think about the claim that “online media are pushing literacy into cool directions”? I, uh, don’t see it.
"How to e-mail a professor" in print
My #1 post in a college textbook
Details
Advice for college students on getting details of format right
Reliving our learning
Passage from Allen Shaw and a thought on student writing
The SAT is broken
On the SAT essay test
Yo, Professor!
On my blog post "How to e-mail a professor"
Five websites for student-writers
Or four websites and a modest joke
How to e-mail a professor
[By a professor, for students. As of July 2023, this post has been visited by more than 800,000 readers from at least 145 countries and terr...
Old and improved
”How to e-mail a professor,” improved.