Author Archives: Elaine Minamide
“It’s Not Holy Writ”: Dillard on Writing and Revising
I began this semester in English 50 by reading two pieces by Annie Dillard. The first, an excerpt from her book, Holy the Firm, about a moth that flies into a candle’s flame; the second, an essay called “How I … Continue reading
Why We Write Things on White Board
So just a little humor.On Tuesday, during a library instruction session for my English 100 students, reference librarian April Cunningham introduced the concept of truncation as a strategy to generate more results in a database search.She repeated the word several times … Continue reading
Getting Ready for a New Semester
Fall 2013 I’ll be teaching English 50 again, which I haven’t taught since Summer 2011. Besides the fact that I’m a bit rusty, I’ve also adopted a new textbook. To complicate matters, I worked with a publisher’s rep on creating … Continue reading
What’s New!
I’ve been gradually adding new content to this site, as well as reorganizing and renaming pages, trying to make this site useful and easy to navigate. I welcome your feedback. Recent additions include a slideshow of student displays based on … Continue reading
Images
I learned (by doing, mostly) how to change the banner images on the individual pages of this website. I used pictures from my rose garden! How beautiful they are! These were the first blooms from last spring. I had a … Continue reading
Using my Website to Facilitate Class Discussion
Applying one of the new skills that was recently taught in Word Press class, I created a page of video links to use in tomorrow’s class discussion on Classical Appeals. I posted it under “Resources” in my Courses I Teach … Continue reading
Word Press: What I Learned
Today, I’m practicing adding media to a blog post. Since I activated a Plugin called “Easy Fancy Box,” I’m hoping the media I add (in this case, a random image) will appear in, well, in a fancy box. Here we … Continue reading
Welcome to my Muddling
Here are my first attempts to work with WordPress. Be patient with me as I muddle along.