Else-If-Then

Tag: writing

  • The Price of Scholarship

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    So I had been accepted to speak at a conference in Amsterdam earlier this month and I had really looked forward to being over there again.  Unfortunately, it became clear in early February that this was not going to be possible, given our budget, our financial burdens, and the total lack of travel funding, not…

  • nothing like reading back over your dissertation…

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    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…

  • A funny thing I found today…

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    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…

  • Raving about the Netherlands over at Sequential Tart

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    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…

  • Her Literacy Narrative

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    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…