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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Un/selfconscious writing

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 Some writers write in a very self-conscious writery way. A classic "writery" move is to write your first (nonfiction) book, or ot...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Scattered Thoughts on a What Should Have Been a Disappointing Weekend at CCCC 2024 in Spokane (But Somehow Wasn't)

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“How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire."   Seymour Glass in J.D. Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”   “ But yield who...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Quick guide to academic hiring in Canada

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Top-tier American PhD --> job at U of T U of T PhD --> job at UBC UBC PhD --> job at any top 20 Canadian university except maybe U ...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Notes toward a theory of posting

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Writing is a human* symbolic** meaning-making*** process that involves mediating**** language***** with technology******. (Note: All words w...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Strategies for dealing with "lit review plagiarism"

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 Here's an issue I've been encountering quite a bit lately: 1. A new-ish graduate student is assigned a traditional "grad schoo...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Do not work where you did your PhD

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 Here's a piece of advice for PhD students who aspire to a serious academic career: as soon as you have your degree in hand, stop workin...
Thursday, April 06, 2023

The I stands for I, and the D stands for "dentification"

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Identity is a huge thing in my discipline, and many educational disciplines. But there's something that feels contradictory about the wa...