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Research Poetry (communicating research results and expressing their significance through poetry)

8 years ago

For an article on communicating research findings in poetic verse rather than academic prose, an article in Qualitative Inquiry cites…

Fie upon your multi-page, ad-stuffed crapfest of shame. (Don’t click!)

8 years ago

What I wrote is not actually a list, just a narrative rant against clickbait listicles.

Updated a post about Sarah Rush — the “launch when ready” crew member from 1979 Battlestar Galactica

8 years ago

I recently noticed that a blog post I created in 2003 has been getting a spike in traffic. Today my…

Apology of Socrates, By Plato

8 years ago

Aristotle classified Plato's work, representing Socrates's defense against charges that he corrupted the youth of Athens, as a fiction. But…

Is your child texting about recursive acronym palindromes?

8 years ago

Is your child texting about recursive acronym palindromes? lol = linguists overinterpret lol gtg = gtg tokenizes gatekeeping mcm =…

Blog RSS Feed Generator for WP RSS Aggregator

8 years ago

I paid a little attention to a long-neglected RSS aggregator for student blogs. It had stopped working at some point,…

During World War II, Literature Reigned Supreme

8 years ago

Books symbolized freedom. Posters of 1942 quoted the president: “Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never…

Certainty vs. uncertainty: “In which are we more likely to be deceived, and in which has rhetoric the greater power?”

8 years ago

I've taught Plato's Phaedrus before, but in the past I have mostly focused on brief passages in which the characters…

What Grammar and Style Checkers Miss

8 years ago

Teaching students to write does not mean correcting their errors, or even preventing them from making errors. While I'm grateful…