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. [...]

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 [...]