Writing in the 21st Century: Redux

Write a one-page story. Name the problem you want to solve or the world you seek to explore. Explain why you should care about this or why this journey is so hard. Finally, show how you see yourself setting this in motion. Make yourself the protagonist of the story. Use this story to think about the first steps or actions you would take to get star

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You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.

Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more