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Under Pressure: A Reflection on Student Writing, Part II
Part two: Apply pressure, or Ice, Ice, Baby, or Writing to Learn At a recent conference, I was invited to share some reflections on best practices. Now, I have an-only-semi-rational hatred for the term...
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Education as Knowledge Games
But if the concept “game” is without boundaries…you don’t really know what you mean by a “game.” Wittgenstein (PI, 69) George Pattison’s Thinking About God in an Age of Technology (Oxford University...
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Review of “Poetry” by David Constantine
Constantine, David. Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Reviewed by David Russell Mosley Christ & University desires to emphasise the theological nature of education. Education seeks to...
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A C&U Summer Reading Symposium
Dear Friends, The end of the academic year is upon us. Have you decided what you are going to read this summer? A personal goal of mine for the summer is to re-visit the work of William Shakespeare....
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Partnerships or Mentorship?
I was interested to see Gilbert Meilander’s argument in favour of shifting the balance of university from a liberal arts to vocational training. While I’ve had my fair share of students that I think...
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In Praise of Inefficiency
Ask anyone who knows me (or better, ask my wife), and they will tell you that efficiency isn’t my strong suit. In our fast-paced, results driven world, my inefficiency is a supreme liability. My iPhone...
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Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part series on an interdisciplinary course I taught with a colleague this semester: Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? Science Fiction through the Lens of...
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Is Belief Bad? An Open Letter to First-Year Composition Students
Our culture says that only thing we can know to be absolutely true is factual data. Our culture says that belief and opinion are largely valueless, better kept to ourselves than asserted as truth. Yet...
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The Long Way to Learning: A Story
The truth is, becoming a better writer is not something that happens overnight. We expect it to, deluded by a society which offers 10-week fitness plans and pizza on delivery into thinking that the...
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Marking Gratitude: Rethinking Plagiarism
When I discuss plagiarism with my students, I’ve learned to expect lots of questions. They are incredibly anxious about identifying the elusive line that separates theft of another’s ideas from proper...
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To My Students: I’m Proud of You
My job as a writing teacher means I give a lot of constructive-criticism type feedback. This is a necessary part of the job, since you wouldn’t improve if I only praised your writing. But praise is...
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