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Archive for August, 2006

English teachers, college English majors, English lit. students: Why buy $75 retail textbooks at a discount when you can buy retail English lit and philosophy books for two dollars?

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

The textbook industry has a wide presence on the internet: hundreds of sites and search engines to purchase discounted texts.  Maybe you can get that $70 English lit book for $40 with a few underlines and notes. The book is probably 1,200 to 1,700 pages long and filled with editorial junk.  I know. I have taught […]

USA Today (once considered the dumbed down newspaper) criticizes dumbed down textbooks

Friday, August 25th, 2006

USA Today began to publish by placing its newspapers in kiosks on sidewalk corners; the kiosks looked like TV’s.  The theory was that people would buy the newspaper since it reminded them of a television set, and the content was pretty dumbed-down for a newspaper.  But with time, such things are forgotten and now a […]

More Newspeak from the world of College English

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

On August 1st, I discussed the overloaded textbook, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry a tome so bloated even 15% of it could not possibly be covered in a semester or even a year of college english (although it might serve as a life vest until it got waterlogged).
In three short weeks, I have […]

Example of search engine optimization futility

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

You have read about search engine optimization. One ’secret technique is to submit your informational article to some “article site” (called info-mercials on TV), and soon your website will increase in traffic since you are an expert since you’ve written an article.
One advocate of this method is a blog called Articlesthatsell. It offers tips on doing […]

His brother’s keeper: Jeb Bush comments on No Child Left Behind

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Isn’t one disingenuous Bush enough?  Now brother Jeb has co-written an article with Michael Bloomberg in the Washington Post extolling the virtues of the No Child Left Behind Act.  Is there a J. Bush/Bloomberg White House run in the works for 2008?  Meanwhile, in the world of reality, in June, 2006, Harvard University published a major […]

Gearing up for mediocrity: Freshman English Writing

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

“All my films have a beginning, middle, and end, but not necessarily in that order.” Jean Luc-Goddard
Ready to turn your student’s ideas into banal, mediocre writing?
At least one teacher tries to teach against the tide of the stodgy, turgid world of English education. Explained simply and clearly, Tom Fredrick argues that the typical […]