Sitemap - 2022 - Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Can AI write decent book reviews?

(A belated) Start the Week #5

Bravery

Christmas and New Year Greetings

The day I became Dr Tel

Aurora and Terry

Provide useful information

Start the week #4

Letter to Rebecca #3

My life in cafés

Words and phrases should mean what they're SUPPOSED to mean...

The Rebecca-Terry Letters

Start the week #3

Letter to Rebecca #2

Caution!

More Experiments in Style

Experiments in style index

The value of low-paying gigs

Teaching behind bars -- with a postscript

Start the week #2

Letter to Rebecca #1

Feedback request, some links, and epistolary nonfiction

Sweating the small stuff

Experiments in Style: two more transformations

Is satire dead?

Rediscovering Sherman Alexie

Start the week #1

Style matters Updated

Experiments in style: anagrams

News from the home office

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?

In the meantime...

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

Strange Code

Authority vs Power

Plagiarism...

Don't insult my students!

Bringing Shakespeare to life

Review of Gothic: An Illustrated History

Ulysses, by James Joyce...

Lots of laws...

7 books set in 6 different countries

The parts of a book in general, and the index in particular

Experimenting with styles

7 Books for Writers

Translating Myself and Others

Cindie Reller meets The Prince...

Computers Don't Argue

Let's keep the arms length body at arms length

Always wear trousers on a video call

The factory of the future

Book review: No Excuses

What calls for education reform have in common

Review: The Comfort of Strangers

Review of The Mark on the Wall

What's in a name?

Want to be a writer?

Blast from the past: Dear Mr Dale

Why are Sherlock Holmes stories so enjoyable?

Review of an American Gothic short story course

Should you sugar the pill?

How data saved my team

Three memorable meetings

The corporate mindset

A Writer's life #1: O vanity, vanity

My worst experience of tutoring

Oulipian omnibus #1

The ever-growing to-be-read list

No laughing matter

My favourite music

Hamlet reimagined as the Dice Man

The North Thames Gas Saga

My Queen and I

Outsourcing Assessment To An Algorithm

Book review: Brave New World

Book Review: Dispatches from the Chalkface by Terry Freedman

Language and meaning

Going against the tide

Do we really need official standards?

Seen on a t-shirt...

What Makes A Good Training Day?

Visitor parking

How writers spend their day

From the archives

Nature support

Here endeth the lesson

Leading without managing

Where's the pen?

Over-managing

Big store blues

Three tales of authorised madness...

A few teaching tips

The Department for Education in England should abandon plans for a new curriculum body

Some notes on memory

Some points to note about teaching adults that should be obvious...

A conversation I had which I still don't understand

Mission statement

No accounting for taste

Job announcements

Middle leadership

Beware The Ultracrepidarians

On my other Substack

The likely effects of the commercialisation of higher education...

A spreadsheet moment

A Zen story

Article listicle

Converting an offline course to an online course

The tyranny of choice

A Moving Experience

Carry out a SWOT analysis

Oulipo course to go ahead

What is Your Dream Team?

Tables of contents, indexes and all that

Spot the...

Finding newsletters

Is honesty always the best policy?

Celebrating the Platinum Jubilee

Keep a professional development record

Oulipo writing prompts

Organise a meeting with a difference

Don't put me off my food!

Review of A Little History of Art

Review of Support Not Surveillance

The girl with long hair

The insult of low expectations

Imposing limits in order to enhance your creativity

In praise of David Ackles

My Sporting Life

The value of artefacts in teaching

Ways into Advanced Literary Criticism

My worst date ever...

Breaking news...

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

Know the data

Language and self

Writing and maps

Crisis? What crisis?

Thanks again, JT

Some news

A very boring job

A graphical representation of A Doll's House

The opposite is true

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

A 6 word story

The Long Goodbye

Book review: A Head Full of Everything: Inspiration for Teenagers With the World on Their Mind

The job application form

The writer's legacy

Review: To The Lighthouse

Controlling which emails you receive

Evaluating job adverts

Review: The Comfort of Strangers

Teaching behind bars

Language barrier

Mind your language

The key people

Cryptic crosswords

Remembering Paul Jennings

Dear Mr Dale

The job interview

The Kreutzer Sonata, by Tolstoy

Sunday round-up 20 March 2022

London life

More on the generic Head of Department job description

Inspection

The joys of non-standard English

An example of why pedantry is never a great idea

The Bartleby Response

The Society of Breakers

London lives!

The benefits of supply teaching

My Sporting Life

What does a Head of Department do?

Neighbours

Financial control

The best to-do list programs

How you could help Ukraine

Unsaid

National Introverts Week

A Calvinist in Love

Helping staff move on

The Investigator

You can't fool the inspector!

Coming soon