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We had the last day of class yesterday, so I now have to get caught up on grading so that I can turn in final grades before the due date. Fo...

Nothing really to say right now--or rather, I should say that I have a lot to say, but no time to write. I hope to have a few things to add ...

My spring break is almost over--classes will start again on Monday. Ironically, perhaps, there's a possibility that we'll have a sno...

I've been thinking about the author's note for Vern Sneider's 1950 short story, "A Pail of Oysters," that was publishe...

This paper was presented in absentia at the 20th anniversary conference of the North American Taiwan Studies Association , Madison, WI, US...

For FYW this time, I'm going back to the "English and Me" assignment for the first writing project of the semester. I wrote ab...

To paraphrase (or actually misquote) Alfred from  Batman  (1989), I have little desire to spend my few remaining years grieving for the loss...

I bought these books during our somewhat shortened trip to Taiwan this winter break. (We were supposed to be in Taiwan for about 2 weeks, bu...

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...