If you want to work with words, then journalism courses are very practical options.

Similar:Blue Feed, Red FeedFacebook is designed to keep your attent…CultureNAVY TO DROP ALL-CAPS COMMUNICATIONSCaps off to the Navy’s plan to drop all-…CultureVery interesting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. #pptlaytime @thepublicpghCultureAfter some long-delayed recabling, these are the bits I culled from my work setup.PersonalA serious summer activity.Once classes start again, we will all ha…CultureAwesome Modular…

A student just booked an appointment to discuss picking up journalism as a second major. Excellent choice!

Similar:Look what I found on my shelf in a closet. #history #archaeology #media Look what I found on my shelf in a cl…PersonalFBI: 'Exercise Caution and Attempt to Verify Information Through Appropriate Official Chan…The FBI reminds journalists about a few …CultureIt is often said that autistic people lack empathy. Some autistic people are told that…

Rediscovering History’s Lost First Female Video Game Designer

RCA’s console never rivaled the impact of Atari’s VCS, Magnavox’s Odyssey, or Mattel’s Intellivision, and few people remember it today. But the true story behind it is fascinating. Its underlying technology began in 1969 as a personal computer developed at home by one man with a vision, Joseph Weisbecker. His daughter, Joyce, ended up being…

Equus. Powerful theatre.

Similar:Prime Stage Theatre Makes A Statement With Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” For Carolyn Jerz, who plays Viol…CultureChess tournament final pairing. (He’s currently tied for 2nd.)PersonalAt Computers and Writing #cwcon for the weekend.Am I wise now? At an event for encouragi…AcademiaThoroughly enjoying Collaborators at Quantum Theatre.PersonalOne wild place. (Sunday.) NatureFreshman writing students present their research projects in…

My undergraduate connects the Leontes/Polixenes conflict in The Winter’s Tale to a pro wrestling “heel turn”

Today’s class on The Winter’s Tale was very much the kind of class that I hoped for when I was an undergraduate thinking, “Maybe I’d like to be an English professor.” Leontes and Polyxines in “The Winter’s Tale” grew up together, but for no good reason other than it sets the plot in motion, Leontes…

Why The Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers – The New York Times

By the time you finish reading this article, the upstart sports news outlet called The Athletic probably will have hired another well-known sportswriter from your local newspaper. In a couple of years, once The Athletic has completed its breakneck expansion, perhaps that newspaper’s sports section will no longer exist. —The New York Times Similar:A Prof…

Pict Classic Theatre Romeo and Juliet.

Similar:Opens Wednesday.PersonalAnd now that June’s almost over, it’s time to start prepping for the fall term. (Sigh.)PersonalMerry Christmas 2019PersonalThank you, 1993 Dennis, for documenting this low-resolution (the background image was 640x…Thank you, 1993 Dennis, for documenting …AestheticsLast weekend I roughed out shapes to represent buildings, in order to provide some sense o…Last weekend I…

The girl got picked for an audience participation bit as the muse of comedy in Xanadu. Great fun.

Similar:I’ve been teaching with this handout for over 25 years, updating it regularly. I just remo…I first started teaching with this hando…AcademiaImagine all the people. Just reading their damned syllabus.These are not the rhetorical choices I w…AcademiaHollow Pursuits (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 21) Misfit Crewmember Faces…Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….AmusingSuddenly Human (#StarTrek #TNG…

A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens

Saving this for next term’s “History and Future of the Book” course. Students said they preferred and performed better when reading on screens. But their actual performance tended to suffer. For example, from our review of research done since 1992, we found that students were able to better comprehend information in print for texts that were…

Writing a news story calls on different skills than writing a traditional essay.

Updated an older instructional handout with a bunch of new examples and some fancy red/green color coding. To write a news story, you’ll use many of the skills that help you write good personal essays; however, the two kinds of writing have important differences, so what counts as “good writing” is also different. English Essay:…

The Digital-Humanities Bust

Dinosaurs evolved into birds. Not all of them, of course. Birds are so much a part of our environment that we barely notice them. I’ve said the same about weblogs. Monetized and platformized and app-ified, the basic functions of blogging live on — a reverse-sorted stream of posts, a mechanism to engage with visitors to…

Talk with us about books! English as a minor or second major @setonhilluniversity

Similar:Thank you, male ballet dancers everywhere, for making moments like this possible.AestheticsBasic details for #medievalyork city walls for a forthcoming scholarly theatrical project….Basic details for #medievalyork city wal…PersonalBig Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math ClassMy math education predated the widesprea…BusinessJulius Ceasar: The Politics of Powerhttps://youtu.be/yhAqqHQ-KNYCultureVery Berry Dead Makes a Big Impression at Big Storm Performance…

Russian troll factory paid US activists to help fund protests during election

Russian trolls posing as Americans made payments to genuine activists in the US to help fund protest movements on socially divisive issues, according to a new investigation by a respected Russian media outlet. On Tuesday, the newspaper RBC published a major investigation into the work of a so-called Russian “troll factory” since 2015, including during…

Feeling Like an Impostor at 49

I reminded my Shakespeare students that I’m a full-time generalist and a part-time Shakespeare professor, and that I’m constantly comparing my own classroom performance with the brilliant well-planned lectures my professors delivered to classes of 100 or 400 students.

Journalists Prefer “Said”

Journalists prefer the neutral “said” to attribute a source’s statements, opinions, and emotions. Using “claimed” generates doubt. Using “explained” confers trust. Flowery alternatives compete with the unbiased reporting of facts.

About to DM a journalism class role-playing exercise. Surprises coming!

Similar:Checking sources back in 2006 involved using this *steampunk* contraption.Research Before Google Books AcademiaFantasy football and the cold future of robot journalismFor fantasy football players, the servic…BusinessStudents Learning about First Amendment FreedomsIn an opening lecture for my journalism …CultureMathematics and What It Means to Be HumanA humanities faculty member and a math f…AcademiaBoston marathon…

Journalists write to inform, not to impress.

Sometimes when I find myself putting more than a usual amount of creativity into a comment on a student paper, I take a break from churning through papers to make another meme.

Vulcan mind-melds from Star Trek: The Original Series, in the order that I can think of them…

With Dr. Simon Van Gelder in Dagger of the Mind the Horta in Devil in the Dark; mirror Spock melds with McCoy in Mirror Mirror with Nomad the floating space probe in The Changeling. Kinda sorta with random guard (remotely projects the vague idea that the prisoners have escaped, so not really a meld) in……

A Simple Plot for a Literature Review

There are two things you need any time you are stuck in writing. You need to set the course and steady the course. If you are stuck while writing a literature review, then each of these things– set the course and steady the course– have particular ways in which you can do them easily, and…

A Grave Tale (a short story I narrated for WAOB Audio Theatre)

A Grave Tale (WAOB Audio Theatre) Written by Kelsey McIngyre Narrated by Dennis G. Jerz Similar:Newsworthy vs snoozeworthyJerz > Writing > Journalism JournalismCrabby 10yo Ties Self to Pole to Protest InjusticeMy wife confiscated my preteen daughter’…CultureNerd Break! Listening To: Wilhelm Scream / Castle Thunder / Amen Break (While Watching Lig…In order to provide some context for a b…AestheticsSaint Crispin's…