Ikr. Like, give me a human

Really liked it

would love to learn about the M25 actually

here's your headline:

They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).

h/t to @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social for pointing this book out to me. I’m recommending the intro chapter to all my students!

9/9 “Close reading is more than a set of steps with an argument. Even if you have the elements of a good argument, you can communicate them poorly, and the argument can be less effective than it should be. Apt execution matters.”

8/9 Finally the chapter makes an implicit argument against AI: close reading is a skill that students have to learn. It is a craft. There are no shortcuts.

7/9 “You can’t skip … to this…: you have to build your way there.” Spot on. And the chapter does a great job of explaining why close reading is important: it’s about building a persuasive argument. Too often I think we presume students know what a good argument looks like.

6/9 global theorizing = the close reader then connects the reading to broader aspects—like genre, form, period, historical context. (In the case of law this would be things like the body of precedent, policy context etc).

5/9 regional argumentation = the close reader goes beyond the local detail to say how this sheds light on other details or aspects of the text.

4/9 local claiming = after noticing the detail, the close reader makes a claim about how to understand what they’ve noticed. We should understand the detail in this way. It’s an argument, an interpretation