Little Gardens: Life in a Hard Place
People talk about nature as if it were outside the city: “This weekend let’s get out into nature. Let’s go for a hike.” However, such statements create a division between humans and nature, as if we...
View ArticleSustained Argument Writing Assignment for Second Year Composition
Sustained Argument 2000 Points, as part of Argument Series Background At this point in the semester, you have spent quite a bit of time exploring a topic of interest to you. It is now time to take...
View ArticleWhat is Metafiction?
Meta: A playful and pretentious prefix! Use it today and impress your friends. From the Greek μετά, meaning ‘with’, ‘after’, ‘between.’ The Oxford English Dictionary says, “The earliest words in...
View ArticleWhy Metafiction Matters
Metafiction is an attempt through stories to understand what stories are. Why do stories matter? Because we are stories. Whenever you — or anyone else — says you are woman or heterosexual or suffering...
View ArticleMajor Themes of Metafiction
An overview of major themes, conventions, and motifs in metafiction, which is basically fiction about fiction or fiction that is somehow self-reflective. This summary will also serve as a guide to some...
View Article111 Most Important Works of Metafiction
What is fiction and why does it matter? Metafiction addresses these questions. Metafiction is fiction about fiction, or fiction that is somehow self-reflective. This is a list of the most important...
View ArticleTop Twenty One Metafictional Works: The Story That Swallows Its Tale
Fiction about fiction is metafiction, which allow writers and readers to examine the trickiness of storytelling. Here are the best works of metafiction in chronological order. For a much longer list,...
View ArticleTwo Sides of the Same Page: Reading is Writing, Writing is Reading
Reading and writing should not be taught separately. A poor reader is rarely a good writer. On the other hand, a careful reader is often an effective writer. The integration of reading and writing...
View ArticleA Distant Voice, Part 2: The Mentor
(Click here for the first part of this story: A Distant Voice: Preface.) The Mentor The rest of that evening and all day Sunday, Auntie was irritable, scolding me for the slightest infraction,...
View ArticleInquiry Series Writing Assignments for Academic Websites in Second Year...
Inquiry Series 3000 points Background Now that student-scholars have selected a topic and explained their historical, present and future interest in the topic, it is time to explore the topic through a...
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