Blogging as Scholarship

Blogging. For many, the term evokes thoughts of cringe-worthy diary-esque posts by angry teenagers, or bland breakfast tweets by bored acquaintances. But in many fields, including the sciences, law and librarianship, blogging has become vital to the advancement of scholarship. Blogs provide outlets for scholarly exchanges and expression of ideas that might otherwise be lost [...]

Obama the Essayist : CJR

Obama’s recent essay for Newsweek reveals weaknesses in the widespread practice of ghost writing in terms of both ethics and quality. Here’s Marx on the ethics; read the whole article regarding the substance of such essays as well.

three fathers

Part of a guest lecture in our intro to communication course. The topic was writing as career and vocation. This is the last eight minutes of the video, looking at the influence of their fathers on three writers: Zinsser, Leax and me.

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