Let’s pick a day and leave notes in bathrooms woo hoo!

We all (the writing center consultants) had an unexpected day off yesterday.  The security folks decided to close the campus due to a threat of violence.  I haven’t heard any official word, but the unofficial word is that a note was found in the bathroom near the Social Sciences faculty offices.  One version (of the unofficial word) says it [...]

Duke Divinity School’s “Center for Theological Writing”

Just wanted to make note of Duke Divinity School’s Center for Theological Writing at Duke Divinity School and this cool introduction:
Writing forms a constituent practice of the ministry, as integral as prayer and preaching, rather than a tool employed toward other ends. And like prayer and preaching, writing requires a lifetime’s commitment to growth and [...]

an unusual sensation (at least for me)

I just found and listened to the microcassette I had recorded on July 26, 2004 (when I had been having some trouble with tendinitis in my hand(s), and was using this to record thoughts). It’s about five minutes long, I’d guess. I don’t remember recording it. But, thing is, now I’m impressed with my speaking. [...]

Einstein’s brain and thinking outside the box

I was just listening to an NPR interview (on Fresh Air) of Walter Isaacson talking about his new biography of Einstein: Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Shuster, 2007), and I was caught by something Isaacson said right at the end of the interview. Dave Davies had asked him, “Einstein is a metaphor for [...]

Literature is the imaginative manipulation of perspective…

Just wanted to paste this blurb into my blog, so that I can throw away the piece of paper I’d been keeping.  It’s much easier to keep track of information on this blog than in my paper files (what a mess).  It comes from the College of DuPage department of English and Composition.
What is literature?
Literature [...]

a couple of pics from winter quarter

Busy writing center (during last week of the quarter, Winter 07)

Tracking revisions, preparing a portfolio (English 101).

PowerPoint presentations: too much at once?

Just came across some research which says that “the human brain processes and retains more information if it is digest in either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time.”  (Research points the finger at PowerPoint by Anna Patty, The Sydney Morning Herald)
The UNSW (Australia) research shows that the brain’s short-term [...]