I’m still teaching journalism and my usual courses, but after 21 years I’ve stepped aside as faculty adviser to the Setonian. The student voice of the hill (founded in 1919) will continue to evolve.

I’m still teaching journalism and my usual courses, but after 21 years I’ve stepped aside as faculty adviser to the Setonian. The student voice of the hill (founded in 1919) will continue to evolve. First published in 1919, The Setonian not only predates SHU’s journalism major, it also predates the majestic London planetrees that the…

So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi

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Yesterday my stack of unmarked assignments was about 120, so this is not bad.

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How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper.

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Seton Hill students Emily Vohs, Elizabeth Burns, Jake Carnahan-Curcio and Carolyn Jerz in a scene from “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.”

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Dr. David von Schlichten honors the spectrum of motivations (not always financial) featured during Seton Hill‘s “Celebration of Scholarship.”

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AI generated image that relates in no meaningful way to the content of the page on which it appears.

This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?

Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring his mentor Socrates, who argued that the ability to churn out the longest written compositions on trivial topics or the shortest compositions on important topics is a shallow skill that has nothing to do with human understanding, much like demonstrating that you can…

New infographic to help our graduating English majors make sense of their capstone project.

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Double Entry Journals: Your Scholarly Research Notes for College-level Critical Thinking

What is a double-entry research journal?

Reading with a highlighter in your hand encourages you to agree with or ignore what you read. That’s a very limited way to engage with a text.

By contrast, double-entry notes are a way of making complex connections between different things that you read.

My students often tell me that when they take good double-entry notes, they get a much better paper when the time comes for them to start actually churning out the paragraphs.

My colleague @crissycp offers warm soda bread and tea every year, as part of her authentic and much appreciated efforts to create and celebrate our togetherness in this world. (And she’s right… nobody needs to be drinking green beer this weekend.)

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A certain potions instructor is done with everything after submitting midterm grades. (Harry Potter Feast)

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MLA In-text citations: Writing that got you through high school won’t do in college.

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I Don’t Know Why Everyone’s in Denial About College Students Who Can’t Do the Reading

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Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos and Kairos

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Traces of Scribes

Book historian Irene O’Daly notes that the passage crossed out in a medieval manuscript matches where the scribe accidentally turned two pages while copying out a printed book, showing that manuscript culture continued to exist even after the printing press was introduced.  (It’s the third of three examples she uses.) Similar:What Grammar and Style Checkers…