Overview In style guidelines for research writing we have the idea of efficiency. The concept is: to use the least amount of words necessary to be clear (don’t be wordy). to avoid saying what is unnecessary (don’t be redundant). Here in an example of an awkward signal phrase, or phrase that introduces...
ENG-W 206, Introduction to Creative Writing, is a course I teach often at Indiana University Southeast. A basic CW course, it offers a taste of three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The students who take it are from diverse majors, for instance, English Literature, Writing, Secondary Education, Nursing, General...
In my class I’ve been working so hard to establish a “free speech zone,” but I think I goofed up when I pressed a student for evidence to back up some claims that police brutality is the same as it always has been. I believe I inhibited the students’ feeling...