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How to Write a Bad... Yearbook Comment
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How to Write a Bad... Yearbook Comment
May 7, 2025

You can only leave truly horrendous yearbook messages with my help!

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Writing a Theme and Passage Analysis Essay (How I...)
May 5, 2025
Writing a Theme and Passage Analysis Essay (How I...)
May 5, 2025

This is how I would write the your final written assessment (in arguably too much detail).

May 5, 2025
There's a Prefix, a Suffix and... A Curse Word
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There's a Prefix, a Suffix and... A Curse Word
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This is a post about swearing. Seriously.

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Punctuation as Style
Jan 13, 2025
Punctuation as Style
Jan 13, 2025

I read an excellent post on Medium comparing the punctuation use of multiple authors. It's cool! (no, seriously)

Jan 13, 2025
The Garden Path Sentence
Dec 16, 2024
The Garden Path Sentence
Dec 16, 2024

Sometimes a sentence leads you to a dead end. You are confused, and that's ok. This time you can blame the sentence.

Dec 16, 2024
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, You Know?
Dec 9, 2024
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, You Know?
Dec 9, 2024

Students are talking about Buffalo. Word is they buffalo Buffalo buffalo, which is weird for Buffalo buffalo to do, when you consider that Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Dec 9, 2024
The Death of Juan Reyoaso
Nov 21, 2024
The Death of Juan Reyoaso
Nov 21, 2024

A short story written by me about a decade ago. 

Nov 21, 2024
How To Write a Bad... Short Story
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How To Write a Bad... Short Story
Nov 20, 2024

I wrote a bad short story. This is how.

Nov 20, 2024
Syntax Has Feelings Too
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Syntax Has Feelings Too
Nov 18, 2024

In "The River Nemunas," Anthony Doerr captures what it means to be numb and alone in the world not in the quality of his words, but in their quantity. 

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The Radical Use of a Comma by Phillis Wheatley
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The Radical Use of a Comma by Phillis Wheatley
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Phillis Wheatley was the first published African American woman, and in the poem "On Being Brought from African to America" she engages in a quiet, cultural rebellion with the use of a single comma.

Nov 4, 2024
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