por Ersun Warncke | May 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
How to win the warOne of my students is putting persuasive writing to real-world use — they’re trying to get their parents to let them use SnapChat.This emerged as an issue a few weeks ago, in a discussion of informative writing. Their pitch on that occasion bore no...
por Ersun Warncke | Abr 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
A salute to Penn prof Paul HendricksonBack around the time Y2K and the Millennium bug were matters of concern (and when we could unironically Party Like It Was 1999) Washington Post journalist and author Paul Hendrickson stepped into a teaching post at University of...
por Ersun Warncke | Abr 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why animal welfare education matters for kidsIn November 2022, I read about New Zealand children being taught to trap and kill rats. The story has nagged me ever since.The child killers were ostensibly working towards the laudable goal of protecting native fauna.What...
por Ersun Warncke | Abr 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
The inevitable doesn’t have to beIn a fleeting discussion, a fellow animal-lover said it was a shame that domestic animals are routinely sterilized. ‘It’s not natural,’ he said.My first reaction was, okay, how about you take on the care of the countless haggard...
por Ersun Warncke | Abr 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why teachers should embrace errors — especially their own!“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.“Samuel Beckett’s words (from the novella Worstward Ho) are an arch rallying cry for MFA types.They have never set well with me....
por Ersun Warncke | Abr 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Write better without touching a keyboard!I’ve started to play around with video and wanted to share the first two installments of Write to Success’s Hands-free Writing Hacks series.Most of what makes for good writing happens away from a desk. Immersing oneself in the...
