Last Friday, as part of an on-going program for professional development, made possible by a shiny new departmental budget, DePaul University’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse Department hosted Andrea Lunsford, author of (among other things) The St. Martin’s Handbook for Writing. I’ve used the SMH for about six years now (editions four through six are on [...]
Alison Lurie’s lecture, which I almost didn’t attend on account of fatigue–similar to the kind you might feel from so many Sewanee updates–was a basically insightful lecture focusing on an often neglected element of fiction: setting. I admit that I approached this topic cautiously. Some of my early fiction was overly reliant on setting, using [...]
As I mentioned, I teach First Year Writing — a variation on your standard university course, emphasizing research, argumentation, audience awareness, etc — at DePaul University . The goal for the course is to write an 8-10 page term paper, and since most students major in things other than English there is a wide berth [...]
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