It’s not only a handful of scholars who treasure content over form. Content runs amok throughout academia. In his book Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind, Gerald Graff (Graff, 2004) describes how the school system—universities especially, but also secondary schools—has become an exclusivist system only concerned with the perpetuation of [...]
Tom Liam Lynch
New Literacies, Adolescent Literacy, & Teaching Literature
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Dec
Somewhere in the doctoral process graduate students learn to write like scholars. They realize that in order to get published or to receive the accolades of their discipline they must write a certain way. It’s as if there exists a secret scroll on which is penned the sacred law of academic writing: Write to convey [...]
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Dec
New Article on Re-reading and Unit Plan
Posted by tomliamlynch Published in Rereading, reading; illiteracy; adolescent literacyCheck out my new article on re-reading books with 10th grade students and the accompanying unit plan at readwritethink.org.
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