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The Romantic Myth Of The Solitary Writer

Jejak Panda Hallo Jumpa Lagi Kita Di Blog Ini judi ceme terpercaya             What’s been on my mind all week to write about is a sort of sad and sort of funny interaction I had with a high school student this past Saturday at Open House, which I’ve worked for the last three years because I really like meeting the incoming freshmen and talking to them about majoring in English.             Despite all the talk of declining interest in the English major, we got good foot traffic at our table, and only one student who said her dad would kill her if he saw her talking to us.             Students expressed interest in many things, but many wanted to talk about careers, the teaching profession, and creative writing.             The young man who made such ...

What Is English?

Jejak Panda Selamat Membaca Di Situs Kesayangan Anda judi bandarq online             This is my fourth year teaching a course called Pre-Teaching Secondary English, for first and second year students who are considering becoming middle or high school English teachers.             Each year, one of the first orders of business is to define English as a field, which is a surprisingly difficult task.   We begin by reading an article called “What Is English?” by H. A. Gleason, which was published in 1964 but that raises many questions that remain remarkably relevant more than fifty years later.             I begin by asking the students to define English as a field, and then to list all the relevant subfields of the discipline.   Gleason never provides a neat and tidy definition, but you can extract...