How We Train University Students to Write Poorly (with Addendum)
When I was in the hunt for a tenure-track university position, I attended a mentoring session on how to publish led by Linda Hutcheon, who w...
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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively deba... -
On Reading "The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China's Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention"Apologist for China, Me? In response to numerous posts I had written on Canada's arrest and detention of the Huawei CFO, Meng Wangzou,...
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Education is one of the Trump campaign's important positions Until November 9, 2016, I never imagined there would be any reason to co... -
The Plan for Romeo and Juliet to consummate their marriage When the Nurse explained the plan—a rope ladder, “the cords,” would be placed ... -
The "Ball of string" theory I believe in the “ball of string” theory of learning English. Imagine that the English language is ... -
What kind of underdogs? Pit bulls, I hope. I read Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giant... -
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What surprises me about people who describe the Bible as “the word of God” is how blasé they seem to be about questions of translation. Ev... -
Pronouns and antecedents When I first heard about "the pronoun wars ," I assumed the debate was about the old problem of the cor...
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"I might've fallen for that when I was fourteen and a little more green But it's amazing what a couple of years can mean &qu... -
“Critical thinking skills” and “family values”: these days it is typical to imagine that these concepts are dichotomous to one another. I...
