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Dennydave@d... - Thanks, John   6/23/2005; 11:42:02 AM (reads: 2312, responses: 0) John Lovas taught me (and I'll bet many others) how to teach English composition. Newly emerged from the cocoon of grad school, I was hired to teach a couple sections of freshman comp. I had only taught creative writing courses at that point. I could talk (and write) at some length about literature, film, creative writing, and a few other areas of specialty, but I knew very little of the pedagogical theory that John had emersed himself in his entire career. So one day we had lunch at "Good Earth," just a stone's throw from campus. We ordered lunch about noon. Three hours later, my head spinning from numerous cups of that delicious but highly-caffienated Good Earth Tea, the table strewn with diagrams and notes written on napkins and torn notebook paper, I knew what to do. He was a gracious mentor. In the twenty years or so since that lunch, not a day has gone by when I haven't put to use something he taught me there in my own private grad seminar on the teaching of composition. - Dave Denny Discuss