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Classes ended last week, and I'm still rushing to get grading done before doing some holiday traveling. But I didn't want to miss po...

...unless you include reading student work. Learned a lot from their writing, though! Some really interesting work being done in my first-ye...

So November is usually National Academic Writing Month , which got its inspiration from National Novel Writing Month . I tried participating...

I volunteered (?) to go to a "Town Hall" meeting this coming Wednesday on the Academic Plan . We'll see how that goes. They...

Not sure why I'm still calling myself "the former native speaker." The way my Chinese ability is going, I should call myself ...

As my faithful reader(s?) might remember, I joined a writing group at my school last year that had its ups and downs . And ( tentative ) up...

I don't have time to think about this right now, but here are two links I want to think about at some point: " Reviewing the Zha...

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 ...