Reading & Writing Techniques in Everyday Language

Working With Other People’s Words Yield the floor/call up [signal changes in speakers] Take a picture [summarize] Sample [quote] Put another way [paraphrase] Riff on [elaborate] Paint a picture [describe] Frame (verb) [contextualize] Shine a spotlight [draw attention to/bring to the foreground] Put under a microscope [analyze into components] Fill the gaps [infer] Connect the Read More …

What is College For?

Ronald Barnett, The Idea of Higher Education (1991, 155-6): “A genuine higher learning is subversive in the sense of subverting the student’s taken-for-granted world, including the world of endeavor, scholarship, calculation or creativity, into which he or she has been initiated. A genuine higher education is unsettling; it is not meant to be a cosy Read More …