Archive for April, 2006
response to “Between the Drafts”
The prompt for us after reading Nancy Sommer’s “Between the Drafts” reads: In “Between the Drafts,“ Sommers looks back at her earlier research, including the essay we read last week, and finds much that she no longer accepts. I personally have a mixed response to Sommers’ essay. Part of me very much admires her ability [...]
woah – a take on the five-paragraph essay
So, while trying to compile lists of blogs to refer to, and finding all sorts of awesome blogs I hadn’t read before, I keep getting sidetracked by these new ideas and takes on things. The most recent is campus.blog’s new five paragraph meta-assignment: As the end of the academic year approaches, I thought I’d blog [...]
The New Research Summit
Lisa Ede and I are presenting at the New Research Summit in Eugene on May 12. Lisa will talk about her research involving citizen reviewers on cites like Amazon.com and on her experience using blogs in the classroom, and I’ll be talking about my use of this blog for classes, research, and now, gradually, my [...]
links to rhetoric and composition blogs
Lisa directed me towards Composition and Rhetoric Weblogs and Weblog Resources. It seems pretty thorough. Check it out!
wells on encyclopedic organization
The Wells quotes are stolen from Mark Bernstein‘s post Encyclopedia 2: From H. G. Wells’ lecture on Brain Organization of the Modern World, October and November 1937. “This Encyclopedia organization need not be concentrated now in one place; it might have the form of a network. It would centralize mentally but perhaps not physically. Quite [...]
disappearing blogs
As I go through my links on the sidebar, I’ve had to delete a few links because they are now dead. Thus, the ephemeral nature of blogs. It’s kind of interesting, and also, I think, kind of sad. We’ve always “lost” text because it was lost to fire, to going in the trash, or simply [...]
Elbow’s view on criticism, speaking, and writing
Peter Elbow writes: The contrast between the two media [speaking and writing] is reinforced when we turn to the story of how we learn to speak and to write as individuals. We learn speech as infants—from parents who love us and naturally reward us for speaking at all. Our first audience works overtime to hear [...]
panopticism
I am in the middle of reading “Panopticism” by Foucault, and I’m certain I’ll be using this for my paper on punk pedagogy. Punk is about breaking discipline, about fighting discipline, and this essay is exactly about discipline, and it’s so true (it’s scary!): The disciplines function increasingly as techniques for making useful individuals….They become [...]
going a little deeper
My first appointment at the Writing Center this afternoon was a bit frustrating because the paper was good and concise, and the assignment was merely to summarize (although it was a lot of summary) the research on the topic, so there wasn’t a lot of feedback I felt I could offer. We talked about grammar [...]
punk aesthetic
From Geoffrey Sirc’s “Never Mind the Tagmemics: Where’s the Sex Pistols?” in CCC 44.1 (February 1997), pp 9-29: Punk’s was the aesthetic of the cut-up, re-making/re-modeling the materials of the dominant culture, detourning them from their bland, deadening use into something useful. It was a re-fetishization of society’s fetishes. (15) I’m in the middle of [...]
