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Thought I'd post my grant proposal for the summer trip to Taiwan. Here's a link to it (on my Academia.edu page).

Well, that's depressing. A couple of members of our writing group are bowing out because we weren't able to line up our schedules en...

So I'm sort of signed up with a faculty writing group. I wasn't able to attend the meeting at which the group's plans were discu...

Back in July I wrote something about trying to start up this blog again, but since then it doesn't seem like I've written very much...

I just noticed that my first blog posts for October of 2005 , 2007 , and 2009 are all about typhoons. Don't take my word for it--check ...

Gonna be needing this soon... What to Expect the First Year , 3rd. ed. (2014), by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel There are some mixed revi...

Chen, Fangyu (陳芳毓). "Without Memorizing Model Essays or Sentences, Students are Taught to Write their own Stories" (不背範文佳句，教孩子寫出自己...

Thursday marked the end for students to be able to add classes. As I thought would happen, the populations of my three classes changed a few...

I see that ten years ago around this time (the beginning of the semester), I was planning a Research Methods course for sophomore English m...

We had a short week this week because classes started on Wednesday, but at least I got a chance to meet (most of) my students. During this w...

Next Wednesday (9/3) will be the first day of classes, and marks the beginning of my fourth year teaching at Northeastern University. Time f...

王乾任: " 尊修辭而輕思辨的美文寫作教育，害死台灣 " I do agree with this comment from him: "寫作是專門技能，國文老師一定會教寫作的假設，其實很奇怪，卻少有人會質疑--something I'm...

I'm still working on the grant proposal. And questioning myself every step along the way. And skimming library search results and Google...

I've got a grant application due soon that I've been half-(w)racking my brain over and half-avoiding, and I came across this post t...

Liked this one when the former native Chinese speaker (why do I still call her that?) told it to me long ago. This version is updated to 20...

This is an old joke that people more educated about US-China relations than I am probably all know, but I got a kick out of it. In a review ...

(I'm not sure why I'm still calling myself "the former native speaker...") The National Geographic Magazine , January 19...

Here's a poem I wrote about Uncle Erich back in 1985 after I spent a summer in Allentown living with the Salomons and working at Salomon...

Here's a picture of Uncle Erich (right), Aunt Lucy (with whom he recently celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary), and their son Eric...

So after coming up with this cool (well, at least in my view it's cool) new title for my blog, unfortunately I haven't made much us...