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David Flanagan |
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The
Art of Politics: Language and Power in Classical
Athens
ICSM 10163-01
MWF, 11:00-11:50 A.M., Job
160
W, 12:00-12:50 P.M., Job 160
Grammar and Usage: WRTG 22500-01
&
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Sec. 01: MWF, 10:00-10:50 A.M., Williams 310
Sec. 02: MWF, 3:00-3:50 P.M., Williams
211
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Food for thought
Computers
and writing
I acknowledge that, as a writer, I need a lot of
help. And I have received an abundance of help from my wife, from
other members of my family, from friends, from teachers, from
editors, and sometimes from readers. These people have helped me out
of love or friendship, and perhaps in exchange for some help that I
have given them. I suppose I should leave open the possibility that I
need more help than I am getting, but I would certainly be ungrateful
and greedy to think so.
But a computer, I am told, offers a kind of help that you can't get from other humans; a computer will help you to write faster, easier, and more. For a while, it seemed to me that every university professor I met told me this. Do I, then, want to write faster, easier, and more? No. My standards are not speed, ease, and quantity. I have already left behind too much evidence that, writing with a pencil, I have written too fast, too easily, and too much. I would like to be a better writer, and for that I need help from other humans, not a machine.
Wendell Berry,
from “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine, ”
What Are People FOR?
Aim of
education
Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than
this: The journey toward the limits of reason, if any there be. And
if any there be, so that some other and even better condition than
education may lie beyond them, we can hardly hope to enter into the
greater mystery without passing through the lesser....
We are all born in captivity. That is no disgrace, for there is no other place in which to be born. Without the nurture of all the rest of our kind, we do not become our kind. We need captivity. But, unlike the other animals, whose original endowment is also their ultimate endowment, we can be born, as it were, in one world, and come at last to live in quite another. By our nature we can do something that no other creature we know of is able to do.
Richard Mitchell
from The Gift of Fire
Learning to write
Learning to write is a simple process: read
something, then write something; read something else, then write
something else. And show in your writing what you have read.
Marvin Bell
from “32 Statements About Writing Poetry (Work-in-Progress)
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