About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Kevin Brooks’s “Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext”
Brooks, Kevin. “Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext: A Genre-Baed Pedagogy.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 2.3 (2002): 337-356. In this article, Brooks argues for a genre-based pedagogy for teaching hypertexts. There are a few … Continue reading
Shirky – Mass Amateurization
Shirky, Clay. “Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing.” Networks, Economics, and Culture.3 October 2002. 6 December 2005. http://www.shirky.com/writings/weblogs_publishing.html “A lot of people in the weblog world are asking “How can we make money doing this?” The answer is that … Continue reading
Herard article
Herard, Tiffany. “Writing in Solidarity: The New Generation.” Race and Class 47.2 (2003): 88-99. “…genuine relationships of solidarity – not to be confused with uniformity – demand that we involve ourselves in collaborative writing, so as to develop the intellectual … Continue reading
Writing 511 will be blogged here as well
I have been keeping my notes and research from Writing 511 (The Teaching of Writing) at another blog on blogger, but I like this blog so much (and I think this blog will become where I work on my thesis … Continue reading
my five minute presentation tomorrow, draft one
I just wrote this, and I just practiced reading it. It clocked in at 5 minutes 30 seconds. I have to cut at least 30 seconds, preferrably more so that I can slow down my reading, but here is draft … Continue reading