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Making Hay While the Sun Shines

February 18, 2015May 20, 2011

The Shallows, Part III: Making Hay While the Sun Shines I’m still a farm girl at heart. The county where I grew up has a population density of six people per square mile, and I was one of three student in my class through eighth grade. Most of my summers were spent either reading or …

Research in the Digital Age

February 18, 2015May 16, 2011

The Shallows, Part II: Research in the Digital Age Perhaps the biggest change I’ve noticed in writing—both in my own work and in my teaching of writing—has been in the area of research. When I taught my first technical composition class in 1989, students still used big green volumes of The Reader’s Guide to Periodical …