Starting with this one, the next few posts are going to be specifically addressed towards my first-year writing students of spring semester of 2020. If you’re one of those students, go ahead and skip down to where it says “MY STUDENTS: SKIP DOWN TO HERE.” (1) For anyone else—perhaps you are one of the thousandsContinue reading “The Mind on the Other Side of the Writing”
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Writing to Perform versus Writing to Communicate
or Figuring out What to Say and How to Say It, and Why You Shouldn’t do Both at the Same Time or Fun with Footnotes This post has given me some trouble—partly because it’s a very big topic with a lot to cover and I didn’t know what to include or cut out, but alsoContinue reading “Writing to Perform versus Writing to Communicate”
One of the hardest things to learn about college writing: separating out your ideas
Your average first-year student—but I’d wager almost everyone is like this—seems to hit a point in his writing process where he’s just had some inspiration about what he wants to say, but all the different ideas that make up that larger argument are so jumbled together in his head that it’s hard to take themContinue reading “One of the hardest things to learn about college writing: separating out your ideas”
Writing Honestly
I want to ramble a bit on the importance of writing honestly, and using the essay writing process to discover ideas, not just report them. There are a lot of avenues (really, a lot) by which we could approach this topic, but I’ll start here with the fact that students often seem to get lockedContinue reading “Writing Honestly”
The point of this blog
(It’s going to be about writing essays in college) Alright, I think I’ve clicked in the right text box. The main target audience for this blog is going to be first-year college student writers. That said, I think the things I want to talk about might be interesting to others as well, at least inContinue reading “The point of this blog”
Thoughts on Essay Writing 