By John Warner. Writing at the Times Literary Supplement, scholar/classicist Mary Beard asks “How long can it take to write a paragraph?” More...

By John Warner. When it comes to writing, we have to do better than "proficiency." More...

By John Warner. I care a lot about the quality of student sentences, which is why I put my focus there. More...

By John Warner. How many spaces belong after a period at the end of a sentence. More...

By John Warner. An accreditation kerfuffle at Wayne State in which the accrediting body declared that a professor who’d been teaching philosophy courses for over 50 years would not be eligible to teach the same courses going forward because their degree is in English has me pondering these issues. More...

By John Warner. "Elite" institutions get a pass while the vulnerable are made to knuckle under. More...

By John Warner. Before class I play music, YouTube videos, that is when I’m not playing clips of goat yoga. More...

By John Warner. I do not remember many specifics of my first college class as the instructor of record. More...

By John Warner. A recent study published in Frontiers of Neuroscience, and reported at NPR finds that “the ideal start time would be more like 10 or 11am.” Most traditional-aged college students just aren't wired to be awake and productive at 8am. More...

By John Warner. In grade school, we were required to try our hand at playing an instrument. I, along with about 30 of my fellow 4th graders, wanted the drums. More...