“The Fate of the Sentence”

I knew I liked Martha Kolln. She was quoted in a Washington Post article about those who are worried that a deterioration of the sentence (due to text messaging, etc) will lead soon to a general lessening of critical thinking ability (and presumably the fall of western civilization!). Anyway, she says something like, “I’m more [...]

start off with the answer?

I was just skimming this post of mine from last year about the pedagogical and cognitive limitations of PowerPoint presentations. The research suggested 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.
I concluded with this note:
Professor Sweller [...]

Project Ijtihad against the order of discourse

I just came from my Rhetorical Tradition class and from our discussion of Foucault’s “The Order of Discourse.” And I was just reading about Irshad Manji and her Project Ijtihad (the Muslim tradition of critical thinking). Great stuff. Wow, I am so impressed and inspired by Irshad Manji. I’m glad there are people out [...]