By way of CopyBlogger comes a great, and of course, timely, reminder of one of the most important rules of writing: Omit Needless Words. Brian is quoting from an essay of Stephen King’s that illustrates the idea well with a brief episode from the horror author’s youth. I’ve heard this advice before, but it’s one [...]

I posted recently about my teaching style and how it seems to work pretty well for me and also for my students. Last week I had an opportunity to get some feedback from another teacher, the head of the developmental english department. She usually observes new instructors in the classroom for about 30 minutes as [...]

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’ve been teaching a night class in developmental writing. This is the first term that I’ve taught this class, but I’ve taught classes in information technology and study skills before this for the past couple of years. This is the first english class I’ve ever taught. Every [...]