I just finished watching the film, Ladybird, which is nominated for a pile of Academy Awards including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress (along with other minor categories like Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay … yadda, yadda, yadda). My 16-year old son recommended it to me. It’s on Full Article
Learning to Self-Evaluate
The most important trait to develop is in life is that of self-reflection. It’s also probably the one we most universally fail at. Humans tend to be complete off-base when we engage in self-examination. We are notoriously too hard on ourselves and just as often too easy. And while I Full Article
Thoughts on Adaptability of Writing
This term I’m teaching a second-year Technical Communications course for Engineering students. Almost all of the students have either taken English 112 or APSC 176 (or a transfer credit equivalent to those courses). Both 176 and 112 focus on helping students write for academic situations: arguments, research papers, rhetorical analyses, Full Article