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Tips on Writing a Literary Book Review
I've asked students in my "Writing about Literature" class to write a book review, in order to establish a connection...

Transcendentalism Today: Echoes of Walden, online and in the classroom
Our students are transcendentalists, but they don't know it.Speaking metaphorically, Thoreau writes "I have always been regretting that I was...

Student writing is getting worse- or wait, it's getting better!
Wonderful stuff from Steven Krause.Representing the world champion, the "going to hell in a hand-basket," the eternal the youth are...

Freshman Composition: Who am I as a writer? (200 words)
Many specific things come to mind when I ponder writing a 200 word paragraph on my identity as a writer....

Domestic Violence: a Feminist-Scholarship Debate
Interesting pair of essays in The Chronicle Review. I may use this in my journalism class for a unit on...