Monthly Archives: February 2012

I am rereading Lynn Truss’s Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and see that she mentions Paul Robinson’s “The Philosophy of Punctuation.” It is a thought-provoking article, more about good writing than punctuation, and perhaps useful to folks in all three of … Continue reading →

I have come across the following clause in a discussion about the wide distribution of scholarly works, both good and bad: “. . . we just have to take the time to read and weed out the good and the … Continue reading →

Finalizing details for tomorrow’s classes, I revisited my bibliographer page on the Punctuation blog. I added a picture of Lynn Truss (of Eats, Shoots and Leaves fame), and a link to her web site. She joins James Murray and Eric … Continue reading →

Glance at the nav bar and you’ll find a link for Stanford Library 1906 under Cool Old Libraries. It is a postcard of the ruins of the Stanford Library, badly shaken in the 1906 “San Francisco” earthquake. Google “Stanford Library … Continue reading →

We have come to that point in the semester when major assignments are coming due. This Tuesday I have papers due in two of my classes and a exam on punctuation in the third. I’ll have plenty of good reading … Continue reading →

This morning in Punctuation I discussed one particular exhibit at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (it had some connection to a major point under discussion); in Research we reviewed some excellent advice on plagiarism by my wise colleague Deb Gussman; … Continue reading →

Books on Higher Education are coming out fast and furious. A colleague drew my attention to another, entitled We’re Losing Our Minds, discussed in Inside Higher Education. The following paragraph caught my attention: Thinking of undergraduate degrees as commodities — tickets … Continue reading →

I spoke to my classes today about The Chronicle piece that described recent evidence on best teaching practices in the college classroom. I poked fun at it — Harvard found that students don’t like to take quizzes, that teachers don’t … Continue reading →

I was making coffee this morning, yrgacheffe, and started thinking about librarians that I know (or have known). Rolling through the list, which is a decent length, I began to realize that many of these folks kept working in libraries … Continue reading →