Category Archives: What is Composition Studies?

Inventing Critical University Studies

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Jessica Yood

Every time a student sits down to write for us, he has to invent the university for the occasion–invent the university, that is, or a branch of it, like history or anthropology or economics or English. The student has to … Continue reading →

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Writers Block

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Jessica Yood

Last year, in the name of progress, I stopped recycling.  No more retooling old writing material for new purposes.  Sustainability be damned; I would forgo one of the key lessons of graduate school and go it alone: make it new, … Continue reading →

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Tactics, Topics, Threes

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Jessica Yood

Five pages by 3pm.  Six hours on Tuesday.  Half a section before lunch.  These are proclamations towards progress, strategies to start and finish, ways to get it, writing, done. I remember when I first used these heuristics. In graduate school, … Continue reading →

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