I thought I should provide a quick update on the freshman writing course I’m teaching this fall, Language, Logic and Information: Using Mathematics to Understand Writing, Communication and Argument. (For more, take a look at the website for the course,…
Linguistics
For now, this will include both matters relating to theoretical linguistics and those about language without the scientific/theoretical bent. Perhaps at some point I will distinguish between these. See also this footnote from my opening post, about “pop linguistics”.
Education, English 125, Gamut, Linguistics, Math
Math, Writing, and the World: The Freshman Writing Course I’m Teaching in the Fall
by Rafe Kinsey •
(There’s a printer- and footnote-friendly pdf version—with links still working!—here if you prefer.) This fall, I’m teaching a freshman writing course at the University of Michigan.1 I’ll be writing a lot about this course and related topics over the coming…
Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy
A Sonnet for Morgenbesser: Dear Astrophil, Love Stella
by Rafe Kinsey •
Two summers ago, I sat in on a wonderful introductory poetry course taught by John Whittier-Ferguson. Among the poems we read was Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet Astrophil and Stella 63 (“O Grammar rules…”). In this sonnet sequence,1 Astrophil is less…
English 125, Gamut, Linguistics
John McPhee and the Irregular Restrictive Which
by Rafe Kinsey •
It’s been a busy few weeks with research and the end of the semester. I promise I’ll get to writing substantive posts very soon. In the interim, I’d like to express my incredulity at John McPhee’s ignorance of the “irregular…