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Sep 18, 20228 min read
The Resonance of Our Speech
I would only order coffee under one of two circumstances. If C-- had arrived early and I'd seen her at a table, my first destination...
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Aug 8, 20225 min read
It's All a Matter of Perspective
In writing, there are always options. While writing often needs to be evaluated to a standard, a style guide, a syllabus, a list of...
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May 8, 202211 min read
What We Take From Professor Pnin: A Conversation
I was recently joined by the brilliant and highly perceptive Cate Otto from The Urban Writers for a conversation about what we consider...
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Apr 14, 20225 min read
A Breakdown of Advice: Scholarship Application Essays
Today, I will be following through on a suggestion that I was sent following my previous post. As a quick backstory, their children all...
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Apr 7, 20225 min read
Isolation by Accident: Addressing How We Use Language
It's easy to say that we don't need to understand the way a person identifies, that it's better just to accept it. Abiding by that...
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Mar 31, 20224 min read
Open to Speculation
Speculative fiction, encompassing any realm of fiction that posits a world either other than or significantly altered from the one we...
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Feb 10, 20224 min read
The Tools of Our Gatekeepers
Purposeful Prose began with an examination of older methods by which writing and writing education has been studied. Some of the...
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Sep 16, 20216 min read
Shaped by Expectation - Part 2
I began the Purposeful Prose blog with a series that explained how many obstacles that writers can run into can be solved within the...
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Aug 26, 20217 min read
The Importance of Making Meaning
Most post-process theorists have their own respective journeys and experiences on both the process movement and how post-process theory...
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