Will the real Graff please stand up?

OK, maybe I’m missing something, but the Graff that I literally just finished reading in the essay “The Academic Language Gap”, is a completely different Graff that I muddled through a month ago. 
I am surprised to say that I really enjoyed this essay, and found that Graff had a lot of interesting things to say.  [...]

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Mini-Blog #1: The Other Half of Teaching

I am posting this week’s blogs in two truncated segments to align with the two articles that I am responsible for during the coming week; I figured this would be a good pedestal to begin my discussion of them.
 
Finders’ article has a relevance to it that goes well beyond the mere pedagogy he’s promoting.  In [...]

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Lost in Berlin

Reading the first half of Berlin’s book was a mixed experience for me.  Overall, I found his work somewhat boring and at times, confusing.  Also, at first I was not quite sure I agreed with what he seemed to be saying about English studies being related to politics and how students are to be trained to cope [...]

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