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By Michael Downing Last semester, after I completed a required online training module at my university, I provided feedback to the university training coordinator. The point of my feedback was that there was more than one “correct” answer for at least two questions. The coordinator thanked me for the feedback and told me that the... Continue Reading →
We drove from Pinery Provincial Park to Stratford, Ontario which took about an hour. We parked on Erie Street which was fitting considering that we both grew up in Erie County, Pa. We backed into a spot and Jackie's attention was immediately called by a sign that said "Oysters," so we went to Lovage and... Continue Reading →
We drove from Pinery Provincial Park into London, Ontario and had breakfast at Katie's Kitchen on Oxford Street. The food was fresh and the people were kind. We had internet access so we got caught up as best we could. We went to Walmart to get some essentials and then the real adventure began. I... Continue Reading →
By Michael Downingwith Reilly Fitzgerald Reilly Fitzgerald was born September 13, 1967 in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. His mother had been staying with her parents in Cupid's Crossing for the latter part of her pregnancy, and his father was in Wabush working at Wabush Mines to establish the family’s future home. When the... Continue Reading →
An Open Educational Resource for Journalism Students Michael J. Downing, Ph.D. A Member of The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) as a part of PA-ADOPT, except where otherwise noted. Fifth Edition, 2024. NOTE: I'm conducting an experiment to... Continue Reading →
By Michael Downing DRAFT I was naïve when I got started in the world of academic publishing and didn't know my field would be so territorial--because the people are generally kind—but academic fields are quite territorial. Profs take ownership of their fields and they don’t like it when you come onto their turf; they feel... Continue Reading →
My Writing Wanderland 