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This is a draft of the paper I wrote. Perhaps I'll get some feedback from students tomorrow! Perhaps I'll get a pink slip tomorrow! ...

As I've mentioned before, I've been trying some new/old things with the FYW courses I'm teaching this semester. One thing we...

Might need these next spring when I have to spring to the defense of how I'm running this semester's first-year writing classes: ...

I don't want to give up on this blog, but I feel I should warn my reader(s?) that since classes have started here (just finished week on...

Recently I came across a post by Stephen O. Murray that has me thinking again about Edward Paine's role in the authorship of Formosa Be...

Judging from this email from LinkedIn, I'm a multitalented guy... Jonathan: International Sewing Club, Inc., Nepris Inc., and Nationa...

Tried this 10 years ago . The idea was that the more meaningful unit of measurement for us academic-y types (at least those of us in the U.S...

Today we went to the New England Aquarium since this is the last week of summer vacation. The little guy had a good time, I think--he seeme...

I already had Harry A. Franck's A Vagabond Journey around the World (1910) and Roaming through the West Indies (1920), but I've b...

My late father went to Tokyo as a member of the MacArthur Honor Guard at the beginning of the U.S. Occupation. He was, as I recall,...

I wrote briefly a couple of months ago about Hsiao-ting Lin's book, Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making...

This should come in handy soon...

In honor (?) of July 4, I thought I'd post a publication from the U.S. Office of War Information--a booklet that George H. Kerr refers ...

My father passed away two months ago, so this was my first Father's Day without him here. I was looking around for pictures of him with ...

Wang, Chi-ming. " Writing across the Pacific: Chinese Student Writing, Reflexive Poetics, and Transpacific Modernity ." Amerasia J...

A particularly poignant part of Vern Sneider's novel A Pail of Oysters occurs when the American journalist Ralph Barton, aided by the K...

I have been keeping a journal on my computer(s) for about 10 years; I started it in the context of trying to work on my dissertation, and I ...

Since I turned in my grades on May 2, I've been trying to get started on some writing projects for the summer. I'm not teaching this...

I've been writing about the assignments that I tried out this past semester in ENGW 1102, our writing program's first year writing c...

Just a note to mention that A Pail of Oysters is now available for pre-ordering in paperback. You can pre-order it at the Camphor Press we...