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We’ll have just one item on the Agenda today as I try something new. More than half of you have asked, some of you emphatically, for feedback on your first drafts of the A05 assignment. Today, I’ll do live feedback … Continue reading →

In-Class Exercise (ICE) Unfair Summary TR Introduction to the Op-Ed A05: Op-Ed Assignment

Amazon Plays Rough. So What? by Joe Nocera, the New York Times, OCT. 13, 2014 Is Amazon a monopoly? That certainly is what Franklin Foer, the editor of The New Republic, thinks. In the magazine’s current issue, he has written … Continue reading →

Op-Ed on a Specific Timely Topic Op-Eds are worth studying and emulating not because they appear in newspapers but because they’re persuasive and responsive to the writing of other authors. Every skill required to write a good Op-Ed will serve … Continue reading →

WordPress saves all drafts. Tyler asked me today to demonstrate how to view side-by-side drafts of his posts in WordPress’s Edit mode. I promised I would, then forgot to follow through. So here: Find the Revisions table. First, open your … Continue reading →

In-Class Exercise (ICE) Unfair Summary MW Introduction to the Op-Ed

How to Quarantine Against Ebola By SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE OCT. 12, 2014 Illustration: Jasper Rietman ONE feature of the tragic case of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first traveler known to have carried the Ebola virus into the United States, rankles me … Continue reading →

Very Simple Agenda Today Fair and Unfair Summary Article for Study in Prep for THU Exercise.

Very Simple Agenda Today Fair and Unfair Summary Article for Study in Prep for WED Exercise.

In-class Editorial For too long, we have acted as if patients have only two end-of-life choices: experiment with treatments, or quit and die. Health care must reward doctors for learning their patients’ priorities. We should be ashamed of ourselves if … Continue reading →