Pearls & Onions

In the spirit of becoming better bloggers, take a few minutes to read two these two articles:
Karl Fisch, a noted edublogger, defines blogging and give example
Kris Braden’s blog post–How to Prevent Another Leonardo DaVinci–award Best Student Blog Post 2007 (I think that was the title.)
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Someone once said writing is the inking of our thinking. Before we can write profound analyses of text, we need to mull over the text, reading and re-reading it deeply, thinking and discussing the text, bouncing our ideas off other critical readers of the same text. Good discussions help us all polish–or sometimes discover–our ideas. [...]

Six days. Five-hundred forty minutes. Thirty-two thousand four hundred seconds. We must make those 32,400 seconds between now and Christmas break count–every single one of them. To that end, I’ve decided to combine our brain power, creative energies, and critical thinking skills to create tutorial videos to review the key skills we’ve learned this semester [...]

This Thanksgiving, I hope you’ll spend some time hunting for more than just turkey and dressing. As we continue our journey to give voice to the techniques writers use to “play” with language, we’re starting to appreciate how challenging acquiring a rhetorical vocabulary can be. It can seem a bit daunting–especially when multiple terms exist [...]

For a few weeks, you’ve been reading about your selected topic. Now, it’s time to decide what you–individually–will select for a research paper topic. The idea is to find an aspect of the larger topic on which you want to focus.

I just finished reading your first full-blown style analysis essay. I am tickled–really–with your progress thus far. I know you’re all feeling a bit anxious about writing a full analysis essay in forty minutes. Let’s try to alleviate some of your misgivings.
Flash back with me fifteen class days…