WR323: Writing With Style
a genealogy of american anti-intellectualism
I’m enjoying sitting in on Sara’s Writing 323 class this summer, and I’m looking forward to covering it next week. The students today had an interesting discussion about anti-intellectualism. Sara asked why US Americans have such a distaste for public intellectuals (example: one student noted that some believe Gore lost in 2000 because he was [...]
ways of reading
I’m sitting in on Sara’s Writing 323: Writing With Style course this summer because she’s heading to the WPA conference in a few weeks, and I’ll be covering the course for her for that week.
Sara’s using Bartholomae and Petrosky’s Ways of Reading, a common writing textbook I’ve been wanting to look at more in-depth and [...]
