Writing Hospital

DOCTOR DELAHOYDE (MD) WILL SEE YOU NOW
Unlike the medical sciences where, maybe if we murder a few more million mice in the next fifty years we'll be closer to a cure for the common cold, Writing Hospital has been established actually to help you cure yourself of contagious compositional diseases, with no heavy costs, no nauseating side-effects -- just, admittedly, a lot of paperwork.Honors English 298 -- Fall 2014

Course Description
Syllabus

We'll need to check ourselves into an appropriate clinic now, won't we?

GENERAL PRACTICE
General advice about setting up manuscripts and following through on technical matters.
THE THESIS WARD
Common symptoms of sick thesis statements and recommendations towards cures.
D+ DIAGNOSIS
Explanation of letter grades assigned to college writing.
PHRASAL DISORDERS
Thirty-plus of the most common diseases in circulation, gathered from a symposium of pre- and post-docs.
THE 2B VIRUS
Avoiding reliance on passive voice and the sickliest of verbs in English.
COSMETIC SURGERY
Cleaning up mechanics and technicalities.
SPELL CHECK-UP
For tumors the scan may have missed, I'm sending you to a specialist: Dr. Paul Brians.
PLAGIARISM
Code black.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Advice for a healthy project.
LABOR AND DELIVERY
Too late to abort.

. . . there comes a time when you just gotta dance.
But nobody said you can't pick good music.(Doctor Johnny Fever)

Michael Delahoyde, PhD

Writing Hospital

We'll need to check ourselves into an appropriate clinic now, won't we?