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Saturday, June 05, 2004

Lights dimming on many of the blogs,
and such is the end of the quarter.

Reading these blogs has become such a vital part of my daily routine ... I'm sad to see them go.

If your blog is moving, send me an update ...

For teachers or students interested in my thoughts on this blogging network, email me and I'll let you know what I think. I've also written a piece about teaching with a blogging network (for C and C Online), though I'm not sure if they'll be printing it ...

As they say, :)

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Monday, May 31, 2004

Students thrown out of school for writing ...

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Friday, May 28, 2004

People seem to be doing great things with the papers -- plenty of innovative ideas.

Feel free to email me over the l o n g weekend w/ thoughts and revelations.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

COLUMNIST POSITION
The Stranger is looking to beef up its coverage of cultural
and academic events on local college campuses. We'd like
a current college student to write a column about lectures,
performances, parties, and other events that people who aren't
on campus every day might want to know about. If you are a
sophomore or a junior with a wide variety of interests and a lot
of writing talent, send three writing samples and a letter of
interest c/o College Writer, _The Stranger_, 1535 11th Ave,
Third Floor, Seattle, WA 98102, or to
collegewriter@thestranger.com. No calls please.

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Monday, May 24, 2004

I just heard about this scholarship for writers: the Centrum Scholarship (paid for by the Starbucks Foundation). Write. Get paid. No problem with that.

Download the application HERE (pdf).

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One of my favorite blogs (http://pongo.motime.com) is now selling stuff w/ the little pongo creatures on it. Hmm ... what to think, what to think.

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Friday, May 21, 2004

Relating to today's discussion, there is a job opening for the new person to run the UBAT's writing test!

Check it out at http://uwjobs.admin.washington.edu/uwjobs/browse/listing.asp?job=46326&categ

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Thursday, May 20, 2004

Since we're physically located in the Law School, this post interested me ... a mini-essay on "going straight through."

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Scott McCloud's ONLINE FORUM

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Friday, May 14, 2004

For those who may not have been in class on 5.14, we came up with a number of vital questions for your interviews or surveys -- due Monday. Questions that struck me as most important:

Have you ever encountered the use of rote, repetetive writing as punishment? If so, what was your experience?

Have you ever encoutered the use of forced writing (an essay or report, say) as punishment? If so, what was your experience?

Does writing as punishment work?

Is it easy to resist?

Could rote writing control you in any way? Could writing "I love to write" 1,000 times make you love writing?

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