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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Slang, rhetorical situations, and a ridiculous school policy
The inimitable Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing has linked to a BBC news story about a school in Croydon (South London) that has banned students from using slang. Here is the original article and here is Cory’s post. Students … Continue reading
Argument and Deforming Metaphors
I currently teach a great deal about argument (my three sections of English composition are primarily focused on argument, my classrooms are exceptionally contentious). Many of my students think of argument in the expected terms. To them it is necessarily … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, Pedagogy, things I show my students
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Poets on the Elgin Marbles, part I
This is part of a series of posts I began last year centered on the connections between the British Museum and the literature I teach and study. Other entries can be found under the “British Museum” tag. The Duveen Gallery … Continue reading
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Tagged British Museum, Empire, Lord Byron, poetry, Romanticism, Walter Pater
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MOOC of the Living Dead
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs for short) are emerging into the educational marketplace amidst a great deal of contention. A quick look at an issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education often finds passionate discussions on all sides of the … Continue reading
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