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W.T. Pfefferle: Sample from Poets on Place
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Sample from Poets on Place. A move from Texas took us to a suburban community outside Baltimore, Maryland. When house prices began to skyrocket, and our neighborhood boomed, the fantasies gained new life. A neighbor sold his three-year-old house for twice what he bought it for and we began to do calculations in our heads. How much time and space would that money buy us? 8221; And we got nervous. How would we get health insurance? We started thinking of things we could do with our stuff, and then – ...
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W.T. Pfefferle: W.T. Pfefferle - Curriculum Vitae
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WT Pfefferle - Curriculum Vitae. Poems The Word Works Press. 2015. The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale. Poems (Winner of the 2006 NSFSP Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize.) NFSPS Press, 2007. Poets on Place: Tales and Interviews from the Road. Utah State University Press, 2005. Writing that Matters: A Rhetoric for the New Classroom. Prentice Hall, 1999. Plug In: The Guide to Music on the Net. With Ted M. Gurley), Prentice Hall, 1996. College of Coastal Georgia - Brunswick, Georgia. Nova Southe...
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W.T. Pfefferle: Literature Syllabus
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Norton Introduction to Fiction, Sixth Edition, WW Norton, 1995. Pears on a Willow Tree, Leslie Pietrzyk, Avon Books, 1998. I lecture at the beginning of each class. I discuss class administration, our scheduling, the readings at hand, material coming up, etc. Usually these lectures are quite brief, but at times they may extend to 30 minutes or more. Passing off anyone else’s work (your roommate, your sister, your friend, someone famous, etc.) as your own is plagiarism, the worst academic offens...This fi...
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W.T. Pfefferle: Composition Syllabus
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Lynn Troyka and Doug Hesse. Prentice Hall, 2006. Prentice Hall Guide For College Writers,. Prentice Hall, 2005. Organize ideas that are appropriate to assigned length, purpose, and audience,. Support generalizations using appropriate and logical modes of writing and thinking,. Use English language grammar and diction appropriately,. Paraphrase and quote sources correctly,. And demonstrate reading comprehension and critical thinking skills in your essays. This course contributes to the purpose of. There i...
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W.T. Pfefferle: Advance Praise for My Coolest Shirt by W.T. Pfefferle The Word Works, Spring 2015 .
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Advance Praise for My Coolest Shirt by W.T. Pfefferle The Word Works, Spring 2015 . David St. John. For the three characters in My Coolest Shirt, love turns out to be ephemeral and inconstant. In the same way some folks lose track of their favorite shoes, the narrator, Netta, and Clare lose track of each other. In the closing poem the speaker recognizes that the journey for all of them has been about "leaving things behind, / and finding and losing, / and the lost.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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W.T. Pfefferle: Poetry Syllabus
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Writing Poems, Michelle Boisseau, Longman, 2003. Sailing Alone Around the Room, Billy Collins, Random House, 2002. Poets on Place: Interviews and Tales from the Road, W.T. Pfefferle, Utah State University Press, 2005. Course Description and Objectives:. To guide writers in developing skills in poetry writing. To study recent trends in contemporary poetry. To research manuscript submission processes and to develop these for each writer. Selections of contemporary poetry in textbook. At semester end you tu...
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W.T. Pfefferle: Teaching Philosophy
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How do I say it so others will understand? What does this mean? How can I make manifest my own understanding of these texts and ideas? I don’t watch with sadness as they go. I know there is a new group, and I am ready for them. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sample from Poets on Place. WT Pfefferle - Curriculum Vitae. Expository Writing @ Hopkins. Click Cover to Buy My Latest Book. WT Pfefferle is a writer and professor. He's better at those things than he is at golf, but he's not happy about it.
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W.T. Pfefferle: CNF Syllabus
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction. Lee Gutkind. WW Norton. 2004. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Dave Eggers. Vintage. 2001. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers is a book we’ll read this semester, and in my mind it’s the best and most creative memoir of the past decade. It strives for a number of CNF’s most lofty goals, and even when Eggers falls short, his ambition is thrilling. Since this is a writing course, part of the new Creative Writing minor and emphasis, you'...
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W.T. Pfefferle: Chronicle Articles by W.T. Pfefferle
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Chronicle Articles by W.T. Pfefferle. The Short, Brave Life of Rate Your Students. Chronicle of Higher Education. Web) 28 Nov. 2010. All it Takes is One Good Student. Chronicle of Higher Education. Web) 8 Sept. 2010.". All it Takes is One Good Student." Chronicle of Higher Education. 57:3 (10 Sept. 2010): A30. Print. [Print version of article linked directly above.]. 8220; An Academic Wanderer Accepts Tenure. 8221; Chronicle of Higher Education. 51:26 (4 March 2005): C3. Web) 1 Dec. 2000.
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W.T. Pfefferle: Expository Writing @ Hopkins
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Expository Writing @ Hopkins. A new KSAS program trains graduate students to teach undergraduates the craft of writing. Then a classmate reads this sentence: He is proud that his knowledge of what's going on is superior to that of Daisy. Hearing her writing, the author speaks up: "Okay, I know I can write that a better way.". Pfefferle was brought in to create a writing program for all undergraduates- in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences alike- and to revisit the subject of the W cour...
