Metaglossia: The Translation World

Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning...

If you love simplicity - getting to the core of an issue - then you'll appreciate Mike Schmoker's book, "Focus."

Though highly repetitive, it's repetitive in the sense of trying to drill into the reader basic truths about what is effective in education and what is not.

Schmoker boils the mish-mash of pedagogy down to three main initiatives: what we teach, how we teach, and authentic literacy, or "reasonably coherent curriculum ... sound lessons ... and far more purposeful reading and writing in every discipline."

Rochelle Shapiro is a regular columnist for Authorlink.
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It’s been days, maybe weeks, and you have convinced yourself that you have used up all your material, that you will never have another thing to say on paper. It puts you in such anxiety that not only do you think about it all day, but the thought keeps you up at night, too.
What to do?

1. Don’t write. Read instead. If you’re writing poetry, read a novel. If you’re writing a novel, read nonfiction. You will be filling yourself with new information, new voices. Go see films.

2. Go on vacation. It doesn’t have to be anything exotic or expensive. Go visit a relative. That will give you material.

TLR & Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University

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Reading &
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of Translation

A special visit with award-winning German writer Utz Rachowski and his translator, Michael Ritterson

BELLE HAVEN -- Eastern Shore's Own Arts Center is offering a forum for aspiring and practicing writers to learn craft and technique, hear feedback and obtain advice from other writers, as well as receiving editing help from much-published authors...

Understanding literature and doing criticism involve thinking about how texts come into being.

A new study indicates that you're at your most creative when you're feeling tired.