Procrastadabbler

The premier literacy journal, Research in the Teaching of English, has changed editors. The interesting thing about research journals is that who the editor is strongly affects the editorial content. The new editorship of RTE is exciting. Now don’t get me wrong. I like and admire the work of the former editors of RTE. They [...]

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My syllabi are pretty much done. Next week starts the meetings. I have a few more this week, but I’m working really hard to keep at least a few days a week free for writing.
And writing means facing the blank screen. Determining those first words. I know writing is mutable. I tell doc students that [...]

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This summer I’ve done a fair amount of reading and writing and data analysis, and despite it being hard and discouraging at times, I’ve really enjoyed it. I feel I’m finally at a point in my analysis where I have something meaty to write about. Today I wrote up the narrative report for the grant [...]

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Yesterday I took at look at my front garden and did some weed pulling. There is a pervasive plant that just creeps into the garden and covers everything. To pull it out, you have to find the stem and very gently ease it out until you find the root end. I finally got around to [...]

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ooo, big words. gotta love ‘em
Anyway, I’ve been doing data analysis and have come up with some early findings/conclusions and as I look at them, they seem so straight forward that I fear if I present them people are going to go,”Duh. You know, it’s so obvious – why did you have to spend two [...]

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