I'm teaching a visual rhetoric course at my new university this year. It has been so much fun to create and just as much fun to teach. I have mostly upper-level English majors and minors in the class, and they are delightful, prepared, and interested. Our first few weeks of class focused on Molly Bang's... Continue Reading →
Begin Again: Do You Leap Out of Bed in the Morning?
I've got a lot of great posts from the early days of my blog, when nobody was following me. I thought it would be fun to revisit some of my favorites from those days. So today's post is a repost. It originally appeared the first day I started my blog, January 4, 2012. ....... I... Continue Reading →
My Blog is a Plagiarist’s Dream
I’ve had to punish plagiarists. It isn’t a fun job, but when I taught freshman English courses at a university during my Master’s program, I had to deal with it. As you all know, universities don’t take kindly to academic theft, and it is a serious issue that writing instructors must address. My first experience... Continue Reading →