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The plan boiled down to the following: Make students write more all through the core, and improvement will follow. It really wasn’t a bad premise. But reading samples of student papers semester after semester, I wasn’t sure it quite delivered. Why not? I have four reasons to propose here that are relevant to the rest of us.
- The best writers read a l
Become a Better Writer: Part I
My wish for you is that you continue, continue to be who and how you are,
to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
Small Listening is Big
-Maya Angelou
“The world of branding calls for clean, simple, and straightforward messages voiced by a caricature of yourself. The call to wholeness often invites the messy, nuanced, and incommunicable within/around you. You're not doing it wrong. You (and your world) are beautifully complex.”
—Rose J Percy, from Twitter, 7/11/22
stripes are my favorite color: on releasing the caricature of myself
[Quick Tip] How to sell without being pushy.
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Reading books has always been a political action, but good gracious, are we being reminded anew of the subversive act these days, eh? Libraries, writers, books, and freedom of thought are under attack or under suspicion or even simply ignored . We are being spooned amusements that require no thought, no engagement, no heart, only our constant consu... See more
Reading is one way we are reminded: stay human.
“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”
Maria Flynn • Opinion | The A.I. Economy Will Make Jobs More Human - The New York Times
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