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: July 2008
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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in WR214: Writing in Business
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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, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Foucault
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