English @ SUNY Geneseo | Connor Valvo | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/cev4/activity/ Activity feed for Connor Valvo. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 73bcb2456fc89fcb4782b543632719eb Connor Valvo wrote a new post on the site THE PRACTICE OF WRITING http://practiceofwriting.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=127 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 05:54:26 -0500 In his essay “The Decline of Grammar”, Geoffrey Nunberg discusses the views of various critics that the English language is degenerating. Although his essay was published in 1997, I believe that these critics […]

]]> 5fa6a9976912aefac62628c83950cf79 Connor Valvo wrote a new post on the site THE PRACTICE OF WRITING http://practiceofwriting.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=52 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:23:28 -0500 My first hands on teaching experience in York was a learning experience for my students, but it was also definitely a learning experience for myself. My two lessons in York were my first two lessons ever, […]

]]> 5e8f45e20ec3a1ecbfc6650b878c2829 Connor Valvo commented on the post, Thoughts and Expectations for Tomorrow, on the site THE PRACTICE OF WRITING http://practiceofwriting.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/03/03/thoughts-and-expectations-for-tomorrow/#comment-25 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 03:49:11 -0500 I agree with Julianne’s sentiments about time management; talking to Emmy, who taught her lesson this morning, I gathered that the forty-minute class period flies by. This being my first hands-on teaching […]

]]> 5873bc51d538c44f29fa74eb924264c9 Connor Valvo commented on the post, Rethinking some received wisdom about writing, on the site THE PRACTICE OF WRITING http://practiceofwriting.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/11/rethinking-some-received-wisdom-about-writing/#comment-22 Tue, 18 Feb 2014 04:17:34 -0500 I took a class with Dr. Paku last Spring, and I was introduced to many of the techniques we’ve learned in this class…although this class has examined these techniques with much greater depth. Personally, I found […]

]]> 80e64092304b417507b47d5c2a7a0254 Connor Valvo commented on the post, Williams, on the site THE PRACTICE OF WRITING http://practiceofwriting.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/01/28/williams/#comment-2 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 03:04:59 -0500 Being at the receiving end of writing instruction is something I’ve become accustomed to in college, but I have never received instruction that is as in depth as the instruction we all receive in this class. I […]

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