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Rhetoric RSS FeedsCraigslist Censors Adult Postings - I just read that Craigslist has, at least temporarily, suspended its highly profitable adult services postings. Now users trying to access those links will find a censored notification. Unfortunately for Craigslist's founders, that is precisely the part of the site that was drawing a huge amount of revenue. While I'm certainly not opposed to this action, it is hard to fight the impression that it's one more step towards fencing in the wild wild web. ...Feed Source: kairosnews.org Generation "Born into Web 2.0" Characteristics -
I'd thought I'd throw out some characteristics of my son's generation rather than wait for ten years or so to see how they represent themselves in a Pew and American Life study. He's almost eleven years old. His is the generation that was born into Web 2.0 and other advanced digital technology. I know this isn't true for all kids his age (and it may be more true for boys--I don't know), but it's fun to imagine:
Many of them would rather take videos than still pictures.
They either have themselves, or have a friend close in age, who has put up a video on YouTube.
They either have themselves, or have a friend close in age, who has been in a YouTube video.
They have their own computer, or at least one that is shared with siblings and not the adults in the family.
They share websites and videos they find on the Internet.
They have email accounts and send and receive email on occassi... Job Announcement: Tenure Track Asst. Prof. of Creative Writing -
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing:
Position Description. Reporting to the Chair of the Department of Writing and Linguistics, the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing position requires teaching, service, and research responsibilities and a terminal degree. The successful candidate will teach 3 courses per semester with primary assignment in multi-genre and single-genre Creative Writing courses. The position is a 9-month, tenure-track appointment, and the salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Required Qualifications:
• M.F.A. or Ph.D. with creative dissertation by August 1, 2011
• Publication in nationally recognized journals or presses
•&n... CFP - Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) Conference 2011 -
All,
As the 2011 conference chair, I am pleased to share with you the call for proposals for the 14th annual conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Like previous ATTW conferences, the 2011 conference will be held on the Wednesday immediately preceding the start of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Atlanta, GA. That date is Wednesday, April 6th.
The theme for the 2011 conference is Networks of Technical Communication. The CFP is available at http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jswarts/ATTW_2011.html . I hope you find the theme as compelling as I do and that you will consider submitting a proposal by October 8, 2010.
... New Laws to Fight Textbook Inflation -
There's a story up at studentpirgs.org about rising textbook costs and some news laws designed to fight it. Their calculations show that "textbook wholesale prices have risen more than four times the rate of inflation over the last two decades" and that new laws will force publishers to reveal their textbook prices to faculty. The article also points to open-source textbooks and the very popular textbook rental companies springing up all over the place. The commercial textbook publishers better get on that subscription-based electronic book bandwagon soon if they want to keep their high rises on the Avenue of the Americas.
... How about the Retro Computer Classroom? -
The BBC has a story about a computer programming class at the National Museum for Computing in Bletchley where students are using PDP-8 computers, machines built by DEC during the 1960's.
Here's a silly idea. I propose we collect donations and scour Goodwill stores for some old IBM 5150 first generation PC's for a computer lab with Wordstar and retro gaming. I bet we could find someone that would love to host it at St. Cloud University.
That would actually be an interesting project, though, wouldn't it? To try composing in Wordstar in a comp classroom? The main problems would be (a) there would be no way for students to print out their papers (could we even purchase the necessary paper assuming we could find a working printer to attach?), (b) a computer classroom without people using Facebook would be very weird, and (c) students would get confused over how to hook their USB flash drives ... Writing Spaces Seeks Volume 3 Proposals; Special Interest--Rhetoric -
The open access series Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing seeks chapter proposals for its third volume. We are interested in a wide range of topics relevant for first-year composition, but especially in accessible discussions of rhetoric. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
rhetorical appeals, especially ethos
rhetorical fallacies
inductive and deductive arguments
strategies for addressing different audiences
We are not interested in "general introductions to rhetoric" kinds of chapters.
The deadline for proposals is September 1st. To submit a proposal, please visit http://writingspaces.org/authors/submit-proposal. If you have questions, please contact the series editos Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky at ... It's Literature, Jim... but not as we know it: Publishing and the Digital Revolution -
From Vooks to ebooks, from the iPad to the Google settlement, and from print-on-demand to new styles of writing, this article attempts to analyse the effects of the digital revolution on the publishing industry, and to make some educated guesses about how things may develop in the next few years.
"An alternative to the Big Publishing model is already with us, and despite the odd viral phenomenon it consists in the main of very large numbers of small-scale products reaching small audiences, rather than small numbers of very high-profile products reaching huge audiences. This alternative model is enabled by digital technology, and it replaces high production values and market-minded editorial controls with the principle that people's desire to publish themselves and to look at each other's efforts is itself a profit motor."
To read the whole article, go to ... Wired's Interview with Fred Brooks -
I've been reading about Fred Brooks' new book The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist. Of course, I've had Brooks' earlier book, The Mythican Man-Month, on my reading list for many years now. I assume you know the basic premise there about how adding extra engineers to a project doesn't necessarily result in a speedier development cycle. Wired has an interview up with Brooks about his book. There aren't a lot of insights there, but it's interesting to see that Broo... e-books coming of age? -
The Wall Street Journal of August 20,2010 carries a story about start up Inkling's introduction of "four full-length interactive college textbooks . . . designed specifically for Apple's iPad." The texts, from McGraw-Hill (no releated info was found on their site about this), are best sellers in economics, psychology, marketing and biology. An introductory offer has chapters selling, beginning Monday, August 23, for $2.99 and the books for $69.99. Prices will go up to $3.99 a chapter and to $79.99 for whole books after the introductory period lapses.
What makes this a leap is the books will no longer be just static digitial versions of text-books, but they will allow for 3-D views, manipulation of images, page swiping with the trouch screen and more. Deals have also been struck with education publishers Cengage and John Wiley & Sons. Maybe you do need that iPad after all?
... More from the childhood archives - My favorite things and my hobbies/pets circa second grade:
... Fraser's "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History" - From Nancy Fraser's article "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History" (NLR Mar/Apr 2009, p. 114, my emphasis):
[Feminism works as] a general discursive construct which feminists [as participants in a social movement] no longer own and do not control -- an empty signifier of the good (akin, perhaps, to 'democracy'), which can and will be invoked to legitimate a variety of different scenarios, not all of which promote gender justice. An offspring of feminism in the first, social-movement sense, this second, discursive sense of 'feminism' has gone rogue. As the discourse becomes independent of the movement, the latter is increasingly confronted with a strange shadowy version of itself, an uncanny double that it can neither simply embrace nor wholly disavow. [ ] This formula of 'feminism and its doubles' could be elaborated to good effect with respect to the 2008 US Presidential election, where the uncanny doubles included both Hill... First-Year Writing Files - This is just a collection of links to files associated with my administration of my university's first-year writing program. I may add files here later:
Instructor Manual
Syllabus for English 509: this is my syllabus for the teacher-training course I'm teaching this fall. Our program requires two pedagogy courses, one that leans toward the theory end and another that leans toward practice; this is the latter.
English 101 ... My would-be GraphJam submission -
... On the candy, of course. -
^clicking image goes to larger version. I estimate that I wrote this obtuse little story sometime around third grade.
... Teaching 101 This Fall - I've been off-and-on planning my English 101 class this fall. We have just made some biggish changes to our writing curriculum -- different textbooks and somewhat different assignments -- and I wanted to be sure to teach 101 so that I'll get this new curriculum internalized and have a solid understanding of how our students respond to it.
The book I'll be using for 101 is Writing Arguments, you know, the one by Ramage, Bean, and Johnson. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to use anything from Writing Spaces as well, and if so, which essays. I'm thinking about What Is Academic Writing, I Need You to Say ?I?: Why First Person is Important in College Writing, and So You've Got a Writing Assignment. Now What?.... THERE'S the ball! - My little guy:
He loves to tell everyone where the location of a ball is. When I take him to any kind of store, he hollers "THERE'S the ball!" whenever he sees something spherical (fruits in the produce section, Easter eggs, anyt... One Room a Day - I've said this before, but I read a lot of productivity blogs wherein the writers strategize about bringing order to chaos, moving projects forward, that kind of thing. On one of them, I read about a "one room a day" approach to cleaning. The idea is that you do whatever basic subsistence-level cleaning needs to be done (dishes, laundry, cleaning up spills and Goldfish cracker crumbs, etc.), then you focus on deep-cleaning one room for about 15-20 minutes. Here's what we're doing:
Monday, kitchen
Tuesday, bathrooms
Wednesday, bedrooms
Thursday, living room
Friday, garage and cars
Saturday, dining room
Sunday, hallways and laundry room
I'm very happy with how it's working so far; I just hope we can keep it up. I'm much less stressed in a clean house.
... Little Sister! - Our son Henry now has a little sister, Clara. Eight pounds zero ounces, nineteen inches, score of nine on both Apgars. Born via scheduled c-section, a decision I may or may not write more about later. And she's wonderful, but of course I would say that! Many adorable pictures here.
... Am I an Expressivist? - I've always thought that no, I'm really not an expressivist. I'm much more interested in assigning research-based argument writing in my classes than I am in assigning personal narratives or personal essays. That being said, it isn't as though those genres are mutually exclusive, obviously. Here's where I stand now:
In my own experience having written a whole lot of different texts for academic audiences, the response to what I write is overwhelmingly more positive when I make it personal and accessible -- chatty, even -- than when I write a paper that more closely resembles the IMRAD tone and structure. I've also noticed that for academic lectures, not just ones I've given but ones I've attended, audience response is much more positive when a speaker tells stories along with presenting information and argument. ... Copyright © 2010, Jelloreceipes.com. All Rights Reserved. |