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I’m thinking of making up some chapbooks to give out as Christmas gifts. I learned how to make them in poetry class, but could not remember the binding stitch. A little googling led me to this site, which offers a great step-by-step guide. (And good folding advice:

Before using your folder, oil it with the natural oil alongside your nose. It sounds odd, but it really works well.

An great article from NMSU doctoral student Jennifer Bracken Scott 

A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The alphabetical list below contains 195 names of the most common fallacies, and it provides brief explanations and examples of each of them. Fallacies should not be persuasive, but they often are. Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may be created intentionally in order to deceive other people. The vast majority of the commonly identified fallacies involve arguments, although some involve explanations, or definitions, or other products of reasoning. Sometimes the term “fallacy” is used even more broadly to indicate any false belief or cause of a false belief. The list below includes some fallacies of these sorts, but most are fallacies that involve kinds of errors made while arguing informally in natural language.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/fallacy/

“When we continue to pursue the goal of teaching students “how to write in college” in one or two semesters—despite the fact that our own scholarship extensively calls this possibility into question—we silently support the misconceptions that writing is not a real subject, that writing courses do not require expert instructors, and that rhetoric and composition are not genuine research areas or legitimate intellectual pursuits.”