Sitemap - 2022 - Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life
Can AI write decent book reviews?
Christmas and New Year Greetings
Words and phrases should mean what they're SUPPOSED to mean...
Teaching behind bars -- with a postscript
Feedback request, some links, and epistolary nonfiction
Experiments in Style: two more transformations
Experiments in style: anagrams
5 reference works for writers, and 4 kinds of useful works
The importance of not being nice
Experiments in Style: Gimme the blues
Substack badges? What a rotten idea!
Fiction masquerading as non-fiction?
Marking with different coloured pens is bonkers
A ride on the Docklands Light Rail
Experiments in Style: two versions of a story
Delegation can be a force for good
Science Fiction, Dystopian Visions and Education Technology
Review of Gothic: An Illustrated History
7 books set in 6 different countries
The parts of a book in general, and the index in particular
Cindie Reller meets The Prince...
Let's keep the arms length body at arms length
Always wear trousers on a video call
What calls for education reform have in common
Review: The Comfort of Strangers
Review of The Mark on the Wall
Blast from the past: Dear Mr Dale
Why are Sherlock Holmes stories so enjoyable?
Review of an American Gothic short story course
A Writer's life #1: O vanity, vanity
My worst experience of tutoring
The ever-growing to-be-read list
Hamlet reimagined as the Dice Man
Outsourcing Assessment To An Algorithm
Book Review: Dispatches from the Chalkface by Terry Freedman
Do we really need official standards?
What Makes A Good Training Day?
Three tales of authorised madness...
The Department for Education in England should abandon plans for a new curriculum body
Some points to note about teaching adults that should be obvious...
A conversation I had which I still don't understand
The likely effects of the commercialisation of higher education...
Converting an offline course to an online course
Tables of contents, indexes and all that
Is honesty always the best policy?
Celebrating the Platinum Jubilee
Keep a professional development record
Organise a meeting with a difference
Review of A Little History of Art
Review of Support Not Surveillance
The insult of low expectations
Imposing limits in order to enhance your creativity
The value of artefacts in teaching
Ways into Advanced Literary Criticism
The trouble with Government education projects
30 ideas for better team meetings
Why is it brave to tell the truth?
Your first lesson with a new class
A graphical representation of A Doll's House
The refurbished Elizabeth Tower
Review of the Penguin Book of Oulipo, plus a course I'm running on the subject - UPDATED
Series, Sequence, Stagnation in Quicksand
Use A Spreadsheet For Literary Criticism
Book review: A Head Full of Everything: Inspiration for Teenagers With the World on Their Mind
Controlling which emails you receive
Review: The Comfort of Strangers
The Kreutzer Sonata, by Tolstoy
More on the generic Head of Department job description
The joys of non-standard English
An example of why pedantry is never a great idea
The benefits of supply teaching