Because I’m making my English 115 students read it, I’m re-reading Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. It’s such a well-written piece of persuasion.…
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Following La Belette Rouge’sexample, I offer you a brief list of things I’m loving right now: 1. I get home about 6:45, and I’ve generally already walked 90 minutes (to and from school) OR walked…
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This photo, which has nothing to do with this post, was taken in Lisbon this summer, near the Praca Rossio. I’m including it ’cause I think you need a visual and I’ve got nothing else…
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Okay, classes are back in, which means I’m going to be using all spare time for preparing and then for marking. There won’t be much time for writing elaborate responses to my reading, but I…
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Blogging is an interesting activity, having some of the spontaneity and fluidity of an oral conversation but with the fixity of writing. If I were trying to write an essay on my reservations about fashion-blogging,…
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