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“Who’s Laughing Now, Assholes?” A Letter from Henry David Thoreau to Literature Faculties at Cushy Liberal Arts Schools - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency mcsweeneys.net/articles/whos-…

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My latest ⁦NBC News⁩: To realize a complete vision of Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice takes people power. nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…

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Herring gulls in Maine. Great piece including work of @collegeatlantic faculty member John Anderson. newengland.com/yankee-magazin…

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Can you believe we're already halfway through week 5? If you have midterm assignments, or term papers that are about to turn into half-term papers or perhaps last-two-week papers, we are here to help!

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This week, our writing tutors have been reading and discussing Vershawn Ashanti Young's essay "Should Writers Use They Own English"--thinking about how we as writing tutors can help students express themselves rather than simply pushing their writing towards "standard english"

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"If something tickles you, makes you wonder or creates a passion within you, then follow it, #write about it, because it will strike a chord with other people, too…” bit.ly/2YlB632 #amwriting #writing #writetip

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This meme brought to you in conjunction with Jamie McKown's Fixing Elections class. If you need help writing, come visit us in the CST zoom! If you need help voting, attend one of Jamie's voter help desks or go to iwillvote.com!

This meme brought to you in conjunction with Jamie McKown's Fixing Elections class. 
If you need help writing, come visit us in the CST zoom! 
If you need help voting, attend one of Jamie's voter help desks or go to iwillvote.com!
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"Here is the bird, the tree, the stone. Here in the sun I sit alone Between the known and the unknown." - Robert Francis poetryfoundation.org/poems/90640/no…

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"O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!" -Langston Hughes poets.org/poem/let-ameri…

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Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. ROD SERLING #amwriting #writing #writingtip

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
ROD SERLING 

#amwriting #writing #writingtip
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It's nice to see Trump moving beyond his American-centric approach by incorporating English punctuation into his tweets. The comma outside the quotation marks is not standard to American English.