Here’s One Writing Prof Who Gets Results
May 08, 2013 by George Leef |
To teach students how to write well, explains John Maguire, train them to use active verbs and build good sentences.
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Is this the best UNCW could do?
Dec 19, 2012 by George Leef |
Jay Schalin writes about the latest addition to the English faculty at UNC-Wilmington, a professor whose work ranges from the silly to the unprintable.
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Stotsky and Bauerlein on Common Core ELA Standards
Sep 24, 2012 by Crystal Plum |
Two scholars from the Pioneer Institute review the make-up and effectiveness of English, Language Arts Core Standards.
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Signs of the Times: The Queen’s English Society Folds
Jun 27, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
Defending the Queen's English is a very hard sell these days.
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They’re Not Unteachable
May 23, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
It's more difficult, but certainly not impossible, to teach today's college students.
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Norman Fruman and Academe’s Greatest Generation
Apr 20, 2012 by Steve Balch |
We've lost another stalwart. Norman Fruman, former Minnesota affiliate head and an NAS director since 1996, has died at the age of 88. Steve Balch misses this member of the greatest generation.
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NAS Beach Books Reports Reflected in MLA Panel Discussion
Jan 11, 2012 by Ashley Thorne, Glenn Ricketts |
Our ongoing report on common reading is recognized at the MLA convention.
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Video: R.V. Young on Sex and Freshman Composition (or: Why You Can’t Think)
Jul 11, 2011 by Andy Nash |
A discussion of how English literature was taught in the past, with more effective results.
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Reassembling Shakespeare’s Fair Friend
Jan 27, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Did Shakespeare encode the name of his fair friend in his Sonnets?
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Ask a Scholar: Pericope and Chiasm
Jan 26, 2011 by Todd D. Moore |
Can there be more than one chiasm (a pattern of concentric parallelism) in a pericope (a paragraph, episode, or story)?
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MLA Lingo Bingo
Jan 13, 2011 by David Clemens |
I tried, but it is nearly impossible to parody the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention’s yearly orgy of political correctness, anti-capitalism, and Theory, just concluded in Los Angeles.
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Education Schools and the Dumbing Down of the Teaching of Literature
Jan 12, 2011 by George Leef |
There's a strong trend toward assigning students books that are easy and fun, then giving them written assignments that don't call for serious analysis.
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A Voice from the Front Lines of the High School English Classroom
Oct 22, 2010 by |
A reader offers constructive suggestions and deepens our understanding of the reasons high school teachers don’t (and can’t) assign research papers.
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The Twilight Generation Can’t Read
Oct 18, 2010 by Sandra Stotsky |
A new ALSCW study suggests that fragmented English curricula and neglect of close reading impair reading scores and college readiness despite major increases in funding for elementary and secondary education.
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Ask a Scholar: A Grammatical Conundrum
Oct 18, 2010 by David J. Rothman |
Is it correct to say, "they can't make up their mind," or "they can't make up their minds"?
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