Two months ago I handed my “completed” dissertation into my doctoral committee. I was pleased with the result but not wholly certain I was finished … there was no feeling of completion yet. When I’ve really finished a writing project I feel a sense of peace but I hadn’t yet Full Article
Conflicts of a Canadian Composition Scholar
My foray into the world of composition studies has been marked with naiveté. I began teaching university-level writing courses three years ago, before that I spent a brief spell teaching a smattering of Education courses, all with a heavy emphasis on writing. Prior to those positions I spent five years Full Article
Socializing and the Academy
A few weeks ago, over a lunch in a lower Lonsdale eatery, my long-term friend gave me a shred look, a smile and said, “You are just a natural networker, aren’t you?” I looked at her miffed for a moment. Networker? Me. Surely not! In the same visit, over dinner Full Article