literacy
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Geoffrey Sirc talks about composition like it should be a “happening,” and honestly, as a writer, that makes perfect sense to me. Writing feels better when it’s an experience instead of an assignment. It works when it’s a little messy, a little playful, and connected to whatever is going on in real life. After all,
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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
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An anti-textbook? That definitely sounds intriguing, particularly to a college student. With Richard Lanham’s Style: An Anti-Textbook, I was immediately drawn to the idea of something that questioned the rules of writing instead of worshiping them. Most writing guides feel like they’re trying to sand you down until nothing sticks out. Lanham does the opposite. This
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Marshall McLuhan once said, “the medium is the message.” What he meant is that what really matters about media isn’t just the content but the atmosphere it creates around us. Radiohead has been shaping those kinds of atmospheres for decades. Take Everything in Its Right Place, the opener on Kid A. The words cycle like
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On a brick-lined alley, next to Daisy, a corgi with more charm than Poe’s raven, I stumbled across this sign: ‘Poe-etry in the pocket.’ It struck me that literature is never just confined to books or screens. It leaks into alleys, into conversations, into the static hum of daily life. We write, we post, we
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