The New English Class: A Guide to the Writing Game Lingua Galaxiae

This book is an overview of the intensive online writing game, Lingua Galaxiae (www.LinguaGalaxiae.com), which studies language as a system in the context of change. Each player has a personal writing coach who provides critiques of the player's daily writing assignments and final portfolio and ensures that it is ready for college applications.

The game combines systems theory with semiotics to create a playing field that focuses on process over content. The game honors change by understanding truth as the product of momentary observation and analysis.

Language is understood as a system of interacting parts: The Operator of language (the human condition), the Operation of language (linguistics) and those Rules necessary for mitigating the way human nature impacts the human operation of language.

Rather than merely talking about these ideas, the game honors change and process by performing as a purposeful and self-correcting system. Players earn points by using the rules and definitions of the game to identify ways to change the game.

Author: Bryan Leland Steele
Publisher: Foreshadow Press
Published: 02/15/2016
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780970507037

About the Author
Steele, Bryan Leland: - "Bryan Steele served meritoriously in the US Marine Corps followed by eight years trading for commercial banking clients on and off the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Steele then left the securities industry and attended UC, Irvine, to study English under such luminaries as Jacque Derrida. Afterwards, Steele attended graduate school while he taught inner city high school English in Los Angeles. After five years of teaching, Steele moved to the LA Weekly where he exposed administrative dysfunction within the Los Angeles school district. As a result of his work for the Weekly, Steele was hired by the California Legislature where, armed with subpoena power, he investigated public-school issues statewide, held public hearings, and issued legislative reports - five of which are held by the US Library of Congress. Steele's many publishing credits include Road to Belmont, in which he documents the causal relationship between adult administration and student success."