Category: writing
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nothing like reading back over your dissertation…
To inspire at best that oh-so-pleasant feeling of wanting to sink through the floor. Since I decided to reformat my dissertation and put it online for free, I found it really was not possible to do that without actually reading any of it again. And boy was that fun. Yeah. I think some of the…
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A funny thing I found today…
My dissertation is available online at ProQuest, linked from a slick page in the UMass Amherst (Where I did my graduate work) library. At first I thought this was kind of cool, until I found that a) they are charging people $41 for an unbound paper copy, and b) they are using a really low…
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Raving about the Netherlands over at Sequential Tart
See your author re-live her adventures in Rotterdam and enthuse unashamedly about the people she met and sights she saw.The Netherlands, From A Tart Point of View, Part 2: Rotterdam Culture Crush This article ended up being a weird mix of your usual travel stuff with far more personal revelations than I had been planning…
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Her Literacy Narrative
OK, I asked the students in my graduate seminar on teaching composition and literature to write a literacy narrative–the story of how they learned to read and write. Since they wanted an example, here is mine. I first wrote it as part of my dissertation back around 2001. This has been updated to reflect more…