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Teacher’s lament | Catherine & Katharine
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. October 27, 2016. October 27, 2016. I’m going to be working with a graduate level research class next week, and in the process of trying to track down papers on the relationship between writing and thinking, I’ve just come across a fabulous passage, quoted in. Exploring Literacies Theory, Research and Practice. By Helen de Silva Joyce and Susan Feez. Or buy them from Teachers Pay Teachers. That doesn’t cohere a...
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When things changed | Catherine & Katharine
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. November 1, 2016. November 4, 2016. I’ve had a running joke, at Kitchen Table Math. And inside my own head, that. Either we were hit by a meteor and we’re all dead but we don’t know it. Or we were hit by a meteor and knocked into a parallel universe but we don’t know it. Or — and apparently this one has many fans — we’re actually living inside a computer simulation. Which Katharine writes about here. This is the hone...
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Testing, testing | Catherine & Katharine
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. October 24, 2016. October 24, 2016. I’m posting Katharine’s comment about how to tell that phrase “. 8221; turns a sentence into a fragment. Because it brings up a technique I discovered while looking for help teaching freshman composition:. They’re coming with Jane and I. The test: eliminate “Jane.”. They’re coming with I. WRONG. They’re coming with me. RIGHT. They’re coming with Jane and me. RIGHT. At that point, y...
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Conlangers are a thing (part 1) | Catherine & Katharine
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. Conlangers are a thing (part 1). October 25, 2016. October 25, 2016. I’ve just discovered an entire category of people:. Conlangers make up languages for fun. I had no idea! I knew there was. Conlanger on the planet: the guy who invented Dothraki. I had no idea there were others, let alone multiple others. Turns out there are so many others they have their own conlanger societies. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Sentence...
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Can you spot the sentence fragment? | Catherine & Katharine
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. Can you spot the sentence fragment? October 17, 2016. October 17, 2016. From this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. Something may look like a complete sentence because it contains a main verb, goes on for a bit, and sports a certain amount of complexity (e.g., an embedded clause). But, as Catherine and I discuss in our book. Speaking of advantages and disadvantages, did you spot. Posted in Europe in the Modern World.
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Whoosh | Catherine & Katharine
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. October 28, 2016. October 31, 2016. In the middle of an Internet treasure hunt for …. Was it danglers I started out Googling before a bunch of other stuff came up? Whatever it was, I’ve just come across a favorite:. I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. Until this moment, I’d never had the experience of forgetting what I was looking for. That whooshing sound in my ears is getting louder.
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Writing and winning | Catherine & Katharine
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. November 4, 2016. November 4, 2016. If you can’t write, you can’t win. Hon William D. Stein. California Court of Appeal. The Recorder (5/21/97) p. 1. From: “PERSUASIVE LEGAL WRITING” by Daniel U. Smith. Posted in Legal writing. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email. Out in Left Field.
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Let’s resurrect sentence-based rhetorics | Catherine & Katharine
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. Let’s resurrect sentence-based rhetorics. September 22, 2016. November 1, 2016. Part of what’s distinct about Catherine’s and my curriculum is that we’re zeroing in on the basic building blocks of writing–phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. Here, in a nutshell, is Connors’ thesis:. What are these sentence-based rhetorics that have fallen out of favor? One recent example is Francis Christensen’s “sentence ...But as Co...
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Catherine & Katharine | Writing and reading from the sentence up | Page 2
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Writing and reading from the sentence up. Europe in the Modern World. Out in Left Field. Richard DuFour, RIP. February 23, 2017. February 23, 2017. Lost to lung cancer, at 69. I never met him, or heard him speak, but Richard DuFour meant the world to me. He was the superintendent who thought suburban students deserved accountability, too. Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning. Using Europe in the Modern World for SAT/ACT tutoring. February 23, 2017. In a nuts...