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Perspectives on teaching with Wikipedia in writing courses before and during the pandemic
(Elsevier, 2023-01-01)In this article, the authors discuss their perspectives on the Wikipedia writing assignment prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic and how this assignment was well-suited for use in emergency situations to maintain ... -
“How do assignments dispose students toward research? Answer-getting and problem-exploring in first-year writing” Composition Forum
(Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition, 2022-05-11)This study explores the relationship between the dispositions toward research that writing teachers convey through their assignments and those that their students express in their reflective writing. We applied the term ... -
POV: artificial intelligence is changing writing at the university. Let’s embrace it
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Nor Could I Name Them: Homer Plays the Muse
The essay reexamines the classical conception of Homer as the naïve, muse-inspired poet in Iliad two. Part I, The Messenger, considers Zeus’ dispatching of messenger Dream to transmit his false message as a figure for the ... -
Helm to helm, shield to shield: Menestheus' idiosyncratic tactic in Homer's Iliad
The study presents a novel approach to the longstanding debate regarding the presence of hoplite or proto-hoplite tactics in The Iliad arguing that the tactic is indeed in evidence as an expression of the fully egalitarian ... -
Theogony 215-16: Cronos’ Golden Hesperides, or Sheep for Apples?
The study proposes an alternative correction of the apparent transposition of lines 213 & 214 in The Theogony to replace Hermann’s proposed correction upheld in M. L. West’s standard edition. The alternative ordering of ... -
Euphorbus' plaint and plaits: the unsung valor of a foot soldier in Homer's Iliad
(2021)The essay addresses Euphorbus’ role in the death and stripping of Patroclus. Is Homer “nodding” when Achilles’ armor is found together with Patroclus’ corpse for which Euphorbus returns to secure his genuine kleos? No. ...
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