This post is a recent essay by John McWhorter from the Times. In it he explores an issue dear to my heart -- that dynamic writing is about action. It's the verbs not the nouns that matter most. Academic writing is dense with nouns and also with verbs that are turned into nouns (e.g., optimization, … Continue reading John McWhorter — Forget Nouns. Verbs Are Where the Action Is
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 