A Site About Writing and Stuff


Introduction

I.Y. Hashimoto teaches writing at Whitman College and directs the Whitman College Writing Center – which he staffs with around fifteen or sixteen peer tutors; he also teaches introductory, intermediate, and advanced composition.

Although he has never raised chickens himself, he firmly believes that if we truly understood chickens, we would truly understand them.

Oh, who that ever lived and loved
Can look upon an egg unmoved?

--Clarence Day


Main Contents

Writing Courses
Includes descriptions for each of Hashimoto’s classes, including class requirements, a calendar, some sample assignments, and answers to Hash’s most frequently asked questions.

Some Advice to Beginning Writers
Advice, exhortations, rules, plans, a Writing Program, plus even more advice from Professional Writers, and from other arts.

Some Observations about the Teaching of Writing
Six biased opinions on teaching writing, and a section on what it all means.

Hashimoto’s Collection of Useful and/or Bizarre Thoughts
Here are a few things that might be good to think about. (But then again, they might not.) They're in no order and Hash is not in love with any of them and didn't make them all up.

Samples of Hashimoto's Poetry
Some of the poems Hashimoto thinks most impressive.

Hashimoto'’s Sentence Collection
Hash suspects we all learn more about style by looking at other people's sentences. Here are a few worth looking at.

Etc., etc., etc.
In his spare time, when he's not thinking about bricks and ground covers and niacin, Hashimoto sometimes thinks about this stuff.

Self-designed writing major
A link to Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson's discussion of his writing major.

Writing Center Home Page
A link to the simple Writing Center Home Page and further advice on writing.


Recent Additions & Changes

Sometime in the Summer, 1997
Hash starts to sweat about his homepage.


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