Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

Menu

Skip to content
  • Jerz
  • Culture
  • Ethics
  • Humanities
  • Journalism
  • Literature
  • Media
  • Writing
    • Academic
    • Creative
    • Technical / Professional
  • Teaching
  • About

Is There a Santa Claus? (Reading of 1897 editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church)

Dennis G. Jerz / 18 Dec 2020

Related

18 Dec 2020 in Culture, Empathy, Essays, History, Journalism, PopCult, Rhetoric, Writing.

Poetry Writing Hacks: 10 Tips on How to Write a Poem
Short Story Tips: 10 Hacks to Improve Your Creative Writing
Email Tips: Top 10 Strategies for Writing Effective Email
Thesis Statement Hacks: How to Write a Thesis for Academic Essays
MLA Format Papers: Step-by-step Tips for Formatting Research Essays in MLA Style
Oral Presentations: Tips on How to Deliver a Speech for School or Work
Active and Passive Voice (Why It's Important to Prefer Active Verbs)
Process Description: How to Write about a Sequence of Events
Quotations: Using them Effectively in Journalism
Academic Argument: Evidence-based Defense of a Non-obvious Position

Popular posts

  • Updated Media Bias Chart — Left/Center/Right, Facts/Analysis/Partisan/Propaganda
  • Writing a Cutline (Caption): Three Examples
  • Fake Graph: The Actual “Dunning-Kruger Effect” Is NOTHING Like I Thought It Was
  • A practical application of close reading skills: Nazi-spotting
  • Yellow Journalism Did Not Cause the Spanish-American War (Role of Sensationalized Headlines Often Exaggerated)
  • Vanessa Otero’s Updated Media Bias Chart (Liberal/Mainstream/Conservative; Facts/Analysis/Opinion/Propaganda/Fake News) UPDATED 5.1
  • Seven Guitars ( #AugustWilson #CenturyCycle, 5 of 10)
  • Vanessa Otero’s Complex vs. Clickbait, Liberal vs. Conservative Media Chart
  • Does the phrase “based off of” make you shudder… or shrug?
  • The Hidden Feminist Messages in ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Categories

Archives

Recommended Links

Email Tips
Write a Short Story
MLA Format
Write a Poem
Active and Passive Verbs
Cave Gave Game (EBR 2015)

Recent Comments

  • Poetry and Poets that write them - Frederick Feirstein on Poetry Writing Hacks: 10 Tips on How to Write a Poem
  • Seven Guitars ( #AugustWilson #CenturyCycle, 5 of 10) | Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999) on August Wilson’s Century Cycle
  • Using “Strive” as a Noun | Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999) on Does the phrase “based off of” make you shudder… or shrug?
  • The Piano Lesson ( #AugustWilson #CenturyCycle, 4 of 10) | Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999) on August Wilson’s Century Cycle
  • Joe Rogan Experience #1596 Avi Loeb – My Podcast Companion on Tenure: What Is It?
  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ( #AugustWilson #Century Cycle, 3 of 10) | Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999) on August Wilson’s Century Cycle
  • Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (August Wilson’s Century Cycle, 2 of 10) | Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999) on August Wilson’s Century Cycle
  • The Gem of the Ocean (August Wilson’s Century Cycle, 1 of 10) | Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999) on August Wilson’s Century Cycle
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OkNo

Post navigation

← My J-Term course on August Wilson doesn’t actually start until tomorrow, but the first assignments are already coming in. Sixteen weekdays to cover Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle.
Stunned by Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and the rest of the cast in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. →

Leave a Reply Cancel reply