The New English Class

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.