Speed writing

If you’re reading my blog, I trust you feel insecure about something. Blogs exist in this ironic space whereby they can somehow shore up your insecurities and mine at the same time: yours because you see how much worse off I am; mine because I know you rely on my abjection to feel (momentarily) secure.
But [...]

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Presentation writing (before the panic sets in)

MSA X will be my first national conference, so I find myself devoting the depth of attention to a 20-minute presentation that a freshman devotes to his first response paper—I’ve spent as many hours writing the context paragraph of my presentation as I spent writing the three-page critical background for my last chapter. I should [...]

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Is genre competence a kind of fluency?

In filing an application for a travel grant, I have been drafting a statement of the significance of MSA X for 1) my field of study, and 2) my career. I spend 40% of my workweek in the Writing Center engaging with student writing from a huge range of disciplines, but the moment I have [...]

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