Fact or Fiction: Length Doesn’t Matter?

Let me tell you about the days when I feel most like a failure of an English teacher.  They are typically centered around literature—the canon, because our syllabus knows no other option.  These texts are challenging: Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, and Macbeth are the only three mentioned by name in the twelfth grade curriculum.  Apart from [...]

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Do you want fries with that?

I had a difficult time finding something to blog about for the reading this week.  But then I came across Chapter 3 and had an unquestionable “Aha!” moment.
Ah, good old employability skills.  I read this section and had to chuckle a bit.  Although I’m in the minority and don’t teach English, I do work with [...]

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Daunted by English Studies

I have to admit, upon reading McComiskey’s introduction last week, followed with the three articles by Barton, Lauer, and Haake, I was more than a little daunted at the prospect of responding to these incredible thoughts in a blog.  For me, the questions and concepts that were raised by these four authors were new and challenging.  From [...]

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