Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Popular Culture is Killing Writing," by Bronwyn T. Williams (@bronwyntw). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Also, oops: I thought using a different mic in a different place would sound "good enough." After recording, I realized too late that that's not true. Sorry for the worse-than-usual quality.

Keywords: fan communities, genre, participatory culture, popular culture, remix

Bronwyn T. Williams is a professor of English and director of the University Writing Center at the University of Louisville. He has taught writing and studied the connections between popular culture and students’ writing and reading practices, both in the U.S. and abroad, for more than 25 years. He is the author of a number of books on the teaching of writing, popular culture, and student identity. Twitter: @bronwyntw. Website: bronwyntwilliams.com. (2017 bio)

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Creative Writing is a Unique Category," by Cydney Alexis (@CydneyAlexis). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: composition and rhetoric, creative writing, creativity, genre, reading, workplace writing

Cydney Alexis is an associate professor of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches courses in composition pedagogy, digital rhetoric, the material culture of writing, literacy studies, professional writing, and writing center theory and practice. Her alma mater is the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was assistant director of both the first-year writing and Writing Fellows programs. Her research primarily focuses on the material culture of writing—those material goods, rituals, and practices that support writers in their trade. She is interested in tracing how writers’ adult practices are impacted by their early writing environments. You can find her on Instagram @materiallives and @writinglandscapes and on Twitter at @cydneyalexis. (2020 bio)

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Excellent Academic Writing Must be Serious," by Michael Theune. It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: academic writing, comedy, composition, humor, writing

Michael Theune is the Robert Harrington Professor of English and Writing Program Director at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. (2020 bio)

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Nancy Fox reads her chapter exploring the bad idea "Logos is Synonymous with Logic." It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Produced as always by Kyle Stedman (@kstedman).

Keywords: logic, logos, persuasive discourse, philosophy, rhetoric, rhetorical theory

Nancy Fox is a faculty member in the English Department at the University of West Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in English Language and Rhetoric from the University of Washington, Seattle, and her dissertation is entitled American Athena: A Feminist Sophistic Analysis of the Discourses of Women Servicemembers. She is the recipient of the Andrew R. Hillen Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Fox has published poetry, essays, and a children’s book, as well as work in feminist studies, multimedia, and writing. Her subjects have ranged from analysis of the film The Kids Are All Right and Andy Warhol’s Dream America to a new discovery in the Mouse’s Tale in Alice in Wonderland. She lives on the Gulf Coast with her spouse and two children. (2021 bio)

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Students Should Learn about the Logical Fallacies" by Daniel V. Bommarito (@d_bomm). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: argument, invention, logic, reasoning, rhetoric

Daniel V. Bommarito is an associate professor at Bowling Green State University, where he directs the doctoral program in Rhetoric and Writing Studies. His research explores composition theory and pedagogy at undergraduate and graduate levels from sociocultural and social cognitive perspectives. (2020 bio)

As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Formal Outlines Are Always Useful" by Kristin Milligan. It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: outlines, post draft outlining, reverse outlining, writing as a process, writing process

Kristin Milligan is currently the associate director of the Learning Center at East Central College. In her more than six years of experience as a writing center tutor, Kristin has seen all kinds of outlines, messy and neat, informal and formal, and she has observed the effects of writing process choices on student texts. Kristin holds a Master’s degree from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX, and a teaching degree from Webster University in St. Louis, MO. She embraces multiple modes of brainstorming and organization as a way to reach diverse writers. (2017 bio)

As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Grammar Should be Taught Separately as Rules to Learn" by Muriel Harris (https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/muriel-mickey-harris.html). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: COIK, grammar, grammatical correctness, language arts, literacy, rules of grammar, teaching grammar

Muriel Harris, professor emerita of English at Purdue University, initiated and directed the Purdue Writing Lab where she learned a great deal from students she met in hundreds of tutorials, including which strategies for grammatical rules might work and which needed to be tossed out. Working with graduate student tutors, she initiated a website with instructional handouts on writing, the Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab). Most of her professional writing has focused on writing centers and individualized instruction in writing. She authored Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference, co-authored two textbooks on writing, and is Editor-in-Chief of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.  However, she and her husband consider their finest accomplishment in life to be their children and grandchildren. (2020 bio)

As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Good Writers Must Know Grammatical Terminology" by Hannah J. Rule (https://www.hannahjrule.com/). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: grammar instruction, grammar, pedagogical grammar, rhetorical grammar, writing instruction

Hannah J. Rule is Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina. Her teaching and research focuses on the teaching of writing in postsecondary contexts, composition theory, and disciplinary histories. She is the author of Situating Writing Processes (2019), a new take on the trajectories of the process paradigm in composition studies. Her scholarship also appears in College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, Composition Forum, as well as edited collections including Best of the Journals in Rhetoric & Composition 2018. (2020 bio)

As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Teaching Grammar Improves Writing" by Patricia A. Dunn (@PatriciaDunn1). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: authentic writing, English language, grammar, rhetoric, usage

Patricia A. Dunn (@PatriciaDunn1) is professor of English at Stony Brook University in New York, where she teaches current and future English teachers and writing instructors. She has taught writing in a high school, a two-year college, a private university, and several large state universities. She has presented on topics related to the teaching of writing at numerous national conferences, and she has published several books, articles, and blogs on the teaching of writing, including a 2011 book (co-written with Ken Lindblom), which is a rhetorical analysis of published grammar rants. (2017 bio)

As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "The Passive Voice Should Be Avoided" by Collin Gifford Brooke (https://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/brooke-collin-gifford/). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: active voice, cohesion, grammar, mechanics, passive voice, sentences

Collin Gifford Brooke is an associate professor in the writing program at Syracuse University. He studies the impact of contemporary technology on writing and language. He has taught college level writing for nearly 25 years. (2017 bio)

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Watch me edit a mis-spoken error in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/cvFy0C8QuGs