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- Next From Michael Mattison: Chicken Soup for the W...
- Giving Childers and Lowe the business
- Unclean! Unclean!
- Online Tutor Training
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- Need some context for Coogan's WC
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- What is the Value of "educational fantasy"?
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- Coogan and Goffman
- Intervention is necessary
- Neubauer research proposal
- At the Point of Need
- ISA is "The Man holding us back"
- The Great Divide
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- Coogan asserts that early writing centers were mot...
- Knowing Technology
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- really? a 1984 reference?
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- The Future is Now
- How teens use language in technology, writing
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- Next from Longman: The Longman Guide to the Horsel...
- I Would Delete This If I Knew How
- Some Missing Links?
- As I mentioned yesterday, I think it is strange th...
- Research Project Proposal
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- Where did the "strengths on which to build" come f...
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- Fiction in the WC
- physician, heal thyself
- Good Cop Bad Cop response
- Psychology of War
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- five is right out
- Empathy
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- Getting my mind off reading about writing
- Diversity
- brian's final project proposal
- Consider this
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- safe writing done here--and only here?
- Mass vs. Individualized Instruction
- Group work
- Backing Off
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- Peer Psychology 101
- Co-learning
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- Successful Tutoring Sessions
- Research Proposal
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- Misleading Comparison
- Worst Case? Really?
- Research Proposal: A Marketing Program
- What Do You Want?
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- Conversation Thought Writing
- Research Rationale
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- The editor in me notices typos
- Shamoon and Burns
- Mom + Pop vs. WalMart... and Writing Centers
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5 comments:
What do you mean by Holy Hand Grenade?
Okay, I watched the clip. I know what the Holy Hand Grenade is. But I don't understand your question. Could you clarify? Or maybe explain?
I am sorry for the confusion. I was, perhaps unwisely, trying to be funny. I thought that bit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail was similar to the passage about the magic number in At the Point of Need: “It’s not that five was a magic number. Four and six worked about as well. But with four, when someone was absent, the groups shrank to three or two; and with six, if all were present, someone’s work didn’t get discussed” (60). I was also counting on the bit from Monty Python being funny in its own right—but I probably ought to have known better.
I'm pretty dense at times. Most often I don't even get jokes others tell until my husband explains them to me or in the middle of the night I get it. I take a long time to process sometimes. When I'm not familiar with the backgrounding ideas, I just don't get it.
I told them,"We already got one." You made my husband's and my day, Brian. Let's rename the WC the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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