Wednesday, October 22, 2008



writing = revision to the nth power...

For those few of us in the writing world who actually do math, we know that the exponent "n" is a variable that may relate to an unspecified ordinal number or may also represent, in literary terms, the "highest" or "utmost" (e.g., "delighted to the nth degree"). 

For our purposes here in Maine, revision to the nth power suggests 1.) the revising process lasts as long as it lasts and 2.) that one of the x-factors or variables of the revision process in middle schools and high schools is the writing center. 

(Yes, t-shirt designer Professor Rich Kent either stayed at a Holiday Inn recently or–and the truth of it is–he sat next to Dr. Eric Pandiscio, a UMaine math education professor at the last Faculty Meeting. Luckily, he didn't sit next to an astrophysicist! Imagine the t-shirt design then...)  

Uh? 

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