Archive for July, 2008
the road trip begins tomorrow
Just to keep you updated, I leave Corvallis tomorrow! In 8 days I will be a Pennsylvanian!
some blog posts on delivering conference papers
If you’re curious about giving conference papers, here’s some blog posts to read:
1. Jenny Edbaur Rice’s post about some problems with conference presentations
2. Topspun’s post chronicling presentation mistakes at 4C’s
3. Topspun’s part 2 to the previous post
wow, a frank conversation about race on the view
I would never have expected this conversation on The View, but it’s a fairly good one about the use of the “n-word.” (via Sociological Images)
MacKinnon: Animal Rights and the right question
I’ve been reading a lot over the last month or so, but haven’t been blogging about it. I’d like to return this blog back to its roots a bit and start chronicling what I’m reading, including some summaries and responses. To return this blog to a “database,” a “repository” of knowledge, I suppose.
In “Of Mice [...]
Carnival on Kopelson: The Pedagogical Imperative and Borrowing Theory
After reading Karen Kopelson’s “Sp(l)itting Images; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition” (CCC 59.4), I was even more excited that Derek called for a carnival on the article. Kopelson’s article inquires into the “pedagogical imperative” that graduate students feel: the real or imagined (or both) pressure to have a pedagogical turn in [...]
T-Rex discusses performatives
I’m an online comic junkie, and I love dinosaur comics, which is usually smart, ironic, and hilarious. Yesterday and today T-Rex took up the topic of performatives, drawing, obviously, on J.L. Austin’s How To Do Things with Words. T-Rex’s character isn’t completely right about performatives, but he’s learning!
CCCarnival: Kobelson’s Sp(l)itting Images
Derek’s made a call for a carnival on Karen Kopelson’s “Sp(l)itting Images; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition” (CCC 59.4, June 2008). Read the article and join! I’ll be reading it shortly and posting about it soon, I hope.
Oregon State Director of Writing Position open
I normally don’t post job positions I see open, but thought I would in this special instance:
Oregon State University invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor (depending on qualifications), tenure-track faculty position as Director of Writing, with desirable areas of focus or secondary specialties to include professional and technical writing, digital rhetoric, visual literacy, [...]
next to last day at OSU
Today was my next to last day teaching at OSU. My business writing class is going so well! With only 7 students, I was both excited for the small class and worried about class dynamics. But the students have been working so well together (with the usual problems of who is pulling how much weight), [...]
cite check
Inside Higher Ed has a post about poor citation in academic publishing. I’ve noticed this problem a few times in journal articles and books: misspelled authors’ names, wrong journal volume numbers, a bibliographic entry that doesn’t have the translator listed, a quotation that isn’t clear that it’s the authors’ translation of a French text, and [...]
