I rediscovered this wonderful paper by Siân Bayne of the University of Edinburgh entitled “Temptation, Trash and Trust: the authorship and authority of digital texts”. In his influential essay ‘What is an Author?’ (Foucault, 1977), Foucault explores the notion of the author – conventionally taken for granted as a knowable entity existing in a stable [...]
I have been reflecting on self-deceptions in my writing. A fine analysis can be found in Noah Lukeman’s excellent A Dash of Style: The art and mastery of punctuation under the subheading “What your use of the comma reveals about you”: The writer who overuses commas tends to also overuse adjectives and adverbs. He tends to [...]
