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: November 2007
notes from the interblags: thanksgiving edition
I’ve found that my blog reading is much like my magazine reading. I’m always behind and have a stack of stuff to read when I get around to it. • via Clay Spinuzzi, Hello, My Name is Bob, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Desire, Feminism, Internet culture, Queer issues and theory
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i can’t resist… some microsoft parody
via Clay Spinuzzi, here is a great spoof, What if Gmail had been designed by Microsoft? From the comments on the article, this great video chronicling if Microsoft had designed the iPod package:
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time is flying…
…which means I have an even shorter amount of time to complete my PhD applications.
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real rhetorical situations
JoAnne Podis and Leonard Podis have a pretty good article in the recent College English about in loco parentis. Overall I found it pretty interesting (and it made me think a bit about how I structure assignments and reflect more … Continue reading
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sisyphean task video #1: trans remembrance day
This video is in response to Pedagogical Gregory’s video, as well as Jeff Rice’s recent discussion of rhetoric as “The usage of many, many things.” In particular, I’ve been thinking about how I espouse multimodal composition yet don’t really engage … Continue reading
Posted in CCCC 08, New Media, publics, Queer issues and theory, Sisyphean Task Video
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