The Genres of My Life

My father, Michael MacDonald Vance, died from a heart attack on Friday, September 4, 2015 at 11:59 p.m.  He was 69 years and 6 days old. ...

Teaching writing is far more challenging than teaching literature. With literature, a teacher has fascinating characters, engaging plots, an...

I understand that most teenagers believe teachers (hell, adults) behaved differently when they were teenagers.  We went to sock-hops. We lo...

As previously posted, I hate grading papers,but there is an exception: my students' personal statements for college. I enjoy these paper...

I have some major linguistic knowledge to throw down. Major. Linguistic. Knowledge. This new slang term for an old label might revolutio...

A whole lexicon of acronyms is multiplying faster than I can keep up. I thought that teaching high school students, teaching college stude...

Even though I teach English, not all of my friends are teachers. I do have a handful of friends that also teach, but neither of my best frie...