On Friday, April 26 the University of Illinois-Chicago is hosting Composition Matters, a symposium with a lineup of composition scholars so great it rivals the ’95-’96 Bulls roster. Furthermore, it’s completely free and open to the public: you only have … Continue reading
Writers, writing teachers, and aspiring comp/rhet theorists: if you’re looking to get your Master’s degree sometime soon, then make sure you look into applying for a graduate assistantship with DePaul’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse program (WRD). In addition to studying … Continue reading
“The best writing teachers are writers themselves,” argues Cindy O’Donnell-Allen in the Atlantic. As she looks at the widely studied curriculum overhaul at New Dorp High School in New York City, O’Donnell-Allen, of Colorado State and the National Writing Project, … Continue reading
I am a writer. I write — and up until last year, I absolutely, under no circumstances, did not re-write.
In 1997, geographer Erik Swyngedouw challenged the way that scholars viewed globalization with the publication of “Neither Global nor Local: ‘Glocalization’ and the Politics of Scale.” The idea of the “glocal” continues to impact geographers’ perceptions of how scale operates, … Continue reading
Beyond the typographical errors (or stylistic choices? Hey, he’s following his own tip number 13.) of Jack Kerouac’s “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” lie gems of wisdom, and some of the same advice peer writing tutors often dispense. Here … Continue reading
There has been a great evolution in my mind concerning the concept of graffiti. When young, I associated it with a disrespectful ugliness that surfaced on trips to see my grandma on the south side of Chicago or my aunt … Continue reading
Some have appropriated unto the process of writing a somewhat romantic picture. We imagine our favorite writers hunched over desks, grumbling to themselves through sips of whiskey in some dimly lit room on the Eastern Seaboard. Otherwise, they’re sitting in … Continue reading
Hey there again, writers. I know I’ve already lobbied for the awesomeness that is Camp NaNoWriMo, but let me give you a breakdown of the tools that are available now that the site is live and you can actually log … Continue reading
Can you count on one hand the number of people outside of school who have read your work? This is a shame. You may be thinking, “talk about a blessing, not a curse,” but allow me for a moment to … Continue reading