About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
This blog serves as a place to think through things, record thoughts, share interesting stuff, and hold conversations. Welcome!
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Composition
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs in Classrooms, K-logs
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links to rhetoric and composition blogs
Lisa directed me towards Composition and Rhetoric Weblogs and Weblog Resources. It seems pretty thorough. Check it out!
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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 … Continue reading
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