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November 6, 2025

Beyond the Screen

When I think about writing, I usually picture a screen. The blinking cursor, quiet room, the soft hum of a laptop. But Jody Shipka’s Toward a Composition Made Whole reminded me that composing doesn’t have to live inside a document. It can be the sound of scissors cutting paper, the texture of a pen dragging

Sirc’s Take on Writing and Visual Art

When Geoffrey Sirc talks about writing as a kind of visual art in English Composition as a Happening, I have to say I definitely get what he means. He’s basically saying that writing shouldn’t feel so stiff or mechanical. It can be more like painting or creating something you can feel and see, not just something

Style as Survival

Richard Lanham’s Style: An Anti-Textbook argues that writing is never just about what we say. It is about how we choose to say it. The word “style” doesn’t mean decoration. It means self-preservation. Every writer, whether they admit it or not, hides behind the rhythm of their sentences, the patterns of their punctuation, the voice