Edward Mills

Author: Edward Mills

  • Spare me the ‘lecteur’ – Part 2

    Spare me the ‘lecteur’ – Part 2

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    Edward Mills
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    If you joined me in my last post for my introduction to lecteur-ing, you’ll be aware that I promised to talk today about the specific modules that I taught at the ENS. A caveat: I certainly don’t claim to be an expert in English language teaching, nor was I the most effective at this task…

  • Spare me the ‘lecteur’ – Part 1

    Spare me the ‘lecteur’ – Part 1

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    Edward Mills
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    I’m writing this on the bus into Oxford, as I get ready to start work once again. I’m very fortunate to have a summer job tutoring French students who are undertaking classes préparatoires, preparing for the concours to get into the grandes écoles such as the ENS and polytechnique. Having started this work last year…

  • Conference Write-Up: ‘LIMITS’ (4th May 2016)

    Conference Write-Up: ‘LIMITS’ (4th May 2016)

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    One of the stereotypical things that ‘PhD students do’, according to a recent study,[1] is to talk about things that interest them with other people who share that interest. What better way to start this chronicle of my PhD experience, then, than with a report from a conference? As might be expected given its age, Cambridge…

  • The “So-What?” Question

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    Edward Mills
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    Whenever I’m writing an essay and I have an idea that I want to include, I like to ask myself a question. I call it the ‘so-what test’, and it consists of asking this question as many times as necessary in order to elucidate why what I’m saying is significant. This text is written in…