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Category Archives: Editing
Found Sentences: Customs and Traditions
I’ve written before about the sentences and sentiments that my students will insert into their papers, and this year’s marking was no exception when it came to complicated nonsense infused with the gift of meaning. While writing about Thomas King’s … Continue reading
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Found Sentences: Our Past and Present Future
Usually the student sentences which stand out for me are more than merely comical. I am also less interested in those errors which some see as comic, especially in terms of laughing at the student’s expense. I am much more … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, Teaching, Writing
Tagged found sentences, grammar, student writing
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Sentences from Student Papers
Although student papers are not the gold mine that some websites suggest, with anti-pedantic-teacher rhetoric and unlikely yet comical meanings, they sometimes offer thoughtful analysis and clever observations. These are a delight for the instructor, but unfortunately—and perhaps this says … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Editing, Education, Environmentalism, Teaching, Writing
Tagged Climate Change, Editing, environmentalism, grammar, student writing
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The Ego in Creative Projects
One of the central problems when dealing with a creative writer is that of their emotional investment in their work. They do not see what they have written as merely product, such as a snail and their shell, but rather … Continue reading
Fifty Shades and a Silo of the Publishing Industry
The so-called vanity press has changed little in the public imagination until very recently. Traditionally, paying to have your book published was seen as synonymous with junk novels and sentimental and self-indulgent poetry. The only route to acceptance by the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Editing, Literature, Social Media, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Beth Reekles, E. L. James, eBook, Erika Leonard, fan fiction, fifty shades of grey, Gulliver’s Travels, Henry David Thoreau, Hugh Howey, James Redfield, Jonathan Swift, Kindle, Lisa Genova, Penguin, Random House, Self-publishing, Silo Series, Still Alice, The Celestine Prophecy, The Kissing Booth, twilight, Warner Books, Wool
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Content Management and the Internet
In prehistory the production of goods was done by hand and the potential purchaser had an item they could examine and then buy. The item was a chipped rock and the purchase was made with promise, threat, or exchange of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Editing, Internet, Literature, Social Media, Writing
Tagged Content Provider, Internet, Neolithic spear point, Vanity Press
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Outsourcing our Memory
I’ve been editing some journals lately and I am often struck by how little I remember about events that theoretically happened in my own life. I wonder at my own reports of meeting what sound like wonderful people and having … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Peoples, Culture, Editing, Journaling, Literary Theory, Social Media, Writing
Tagged blog, blogging, Descartes, Jacques Lacan, Outsourcing memory, Story, whimsey
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Preparing for Visitors
It was sunny all day today, which is kind of what I’d expected when I came to the bush. Instead this is the first day of sun. I went for a walk to the stream but spent most of my … Continue reading
Posted in Code World, Editing, Solitude, The Cabin, The Land, Writing
Tagged Alone in the Wild, Cabin, cabin in the forest, Code World, Ebook Publishing, Writing
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Is it Better to be Social for Christmas?
It’s warm this evening and a storm is blowing in apparently. Freezing rain tomorrow and Christmas day, which makes me a bit concerned about getting back here. I felt like I should spend Christmas with the family since they seemed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone in the Wild, Cabin, cabin in the forest, In Light of Ray, Writing
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