Essay: “The Juncture of Verisimilitude and Me”

This essay, The Juncture of Verisimilitude and Me, was originally written for the Teachers & Writers Collaborative’s Bechtel Prize competition in 2014. The essay didn’t win, and it will probably never appear in an education journal because its basis isn’t data-driven, which is the current vogue in that field. (I’ve had writing-education articles rejected for that reason alone, so I know.) In it, I addressed the subject of providing a liberal education to young people through the mechanisms of reading and writing. The Anglo-Saxon poets and monks who, over centuries, produced the epic poem… Read more Essay: “The Juncture of Verisimilitude and Me” →