From Peter Elbow’s Writing Without Teachers—whose quoting by me here is the result of coming across another example (via GiftHub) of the (false) metaphor of the tube. My account of meaning is grounded in what real people do when they speak and write. When people speak or write successfully with each other it looks as though there [...]
Biblical news from Academia: Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis “in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” is not a true translation of the Hebrew. … She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb “bara”, which is used in the first [...]
For Christmas, my friend Danielle bought me the book, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. It’s getting a little long in the tooth near page 150, but I really like how they go about building up their argument. Specifically, how they define Destinctions. I’ve been accused in the past (by my [...]
A great list of functional verbs for writing resumes or their reverse situational equivalent: job descriptions. (via Google) ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION VERBS advise Offer an informed opinion or give specialized information to others. adapt Modify or change to fit specific or new situations. administer Manage or direct. (Generally requires some additional explanation to show specific detail.) [...]
