What: “Critical Writing: Let's Have a Heart-to-Heart". From the article: 

We need to find a new approach to our critical writing. This new sort of critical writing will be concerned with a broader audience than typical academic critical writing. In Joseph Harris’s Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts, he specifically writes that he is concerned with prose addressed to “general readers.”[2] “I am interested in a kind of writing about texts and ideas, culture and politics, that while often associated with the academy, is not confined to it, that seeks instead to address a broader and more public set of issues and readers.”[3] Harris advocates writing that “strives to be a part of public life,” and I believe this is the kind of writing we need to start doing in the academy so we can engage a broader audience and alert them to the importance of English.[4]

How: We read together for the first 30 minutes, then discuss our responses and practice—no homework required!

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