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Car Repairs and the Design of Documents

I’m sitting in the waiting room of the local Honda dealership, waiting a few patient hours for the mechanics to fix the alignment on my Accord and replace all four tires. I’m about to launch into a complaint about my … Continue reading

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Teaching Follow-Up

This post is long overdue. It is also overlong, so my apologies in advance. It’s taken a little while to get my evaluations and I didn’t receive a lot of actual comments. Three, in fact.

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Checking That Box

It seems that all English majors are expected to do certain things with their skills (or lives) to be considered worthy of the title. Paid to write? Check. At least one bad novel written? Check. Teach a class? Ahh, there’s … Continue reading

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