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"Dare to write clearly and engagingly whatever the audience, Helen Sword urges junior and senior scholars alike in a myth-busting guide...

My article " Marianne Moore's Precision " is in the new issue of Arizona Quarterly .

“And what a quantity of animal beings there are in the being of a man!”      — Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space My essay " Sent...

"We need a vocabulary for," "we need terms for thinking through," "we need an ecology of," "we need an ae...

Sigh. Away from the internets for a day and I find that my recent response to Roland was construed exactly backwards by a writer for Eyres...

My Macbook is in the shop after acting up in some truly annoying ways. I don't think the problem is serious (the inverter or--I hope--th...

I think it needs to be said that Sady Doyle is a Writer To Watch (TM). I've been reading her since her blogspot days; she was hilarious...

I've always loved the way Californians say "back east" to refer to the east coast, as if it were not only geographically dista...

For when you're halfway through a draft, realize the architecture of your essay is absolute nonsense, draw some diagrams in a notebook, ...

Oh, you thought I was done with the posts on revision. Nay. Today I'd like to reflect a little on feeling misunderstood. I don't mea...

This is the fifth ( good grief ) post in a series on the practice of responding to others' writing, which I've come to see as a core...

Receiving feedback on writing is a tricky skill, and one that is crucial for our profession. But by and large, it isn't taught formally....

This is the third post in what appears to be a series on responses to writing. Previously I laid out my idea of what constitutes a good resp...

I recently wrote a fairly rambling post about responding to other people's writing, which was partly an appreciation of those who have ...

I recently had a conversation about letters -- you know, the kind you stick in the post. Since I've actually been known to write them on...

Kevin Dettmar's recent lovely ode to an editor put me in mind of my own readers. Like the art of praise, the art of giving useful feedb...

There comes a point in every academic's life, sooner or later, when various professional bitternesses set in, and one's private self...

I've just had an article accepted for publication, with minor revisions. It's very exciting.

I've long been fascinated by the bodily connection that we often feel that we have with our writing. This is as true of writing done on ...