This is my part of a larger collaborative project for my senior seminar writing class. I’ll link up the full project when it goes live.
Don’t bother remembering facts and figures, historical events and persons. The pedagogical norm of our school systems – the regurgitation of facts in multiple-choice or short answer form – is a [...]

Andrew F., The Last New Media Essay
An apt subtitle for this piece might be along these lines: “A formal essay, published on the internet, lamenting the end of the essay in the face of the internet.”
Andrew begins by butchering the traditional essay, an outmoded form of writing. The claim is then made that the weblog [...]

We came down to Ithaca last Wednesday to look at apartments. We found one, which I’ll write about in a later post. Then I had a few days to pack, before moving in on Saturday. The apartment wasn’t furnished, so we had to bring my bed, furniture, and a variety of odd knick-knacks for the [...]

Google’s launch of a new, self-censored search engine in China is a “black day” for freedom of expression, a leading international media watchdog says.
Reporters Without Borders joined others in asking how Google could stand up for US users’ freedoms while controlling what Chinese users can search for.
Its previous search engine for China’s fast-growing market was [...]