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: March 2009
Dennis Jerz on my CCCC Panel
I finally got around to reading Dennis Jerz’s summary and response to the CCCC panel I was on a few weeks ago. I think he pretty accurately conveyed what we discussed on the panel, as well as evaluated some of … Continue reading
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needs some updatin’
Man, some of my blogroll links are outdated and wrong, and this stupid skaterboi in my header needs to go, and I want to work on the colors on this blog so they’re more readable/accessible, but you know, all this … Continue reading
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oh, yeah, there’s a blog here
What’s that, Mx. Blog? Oh, you feel neglected. And well you should, I suppose. After making a mental commitment to myself to blog more often, I slipped. Well, you see, Mx. Blog, I was in LA and then San Francisco … Continue reading
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defining “new media”
I’m reading Wyoscki et al’s Writing New Media, and Anne Wysocki offers a definition of “new media texts” that I find quite interesting: I think we should call “new media texts” those that have been made by composers who are … Continue reading
Wordle Tag Cloud of CCCC09 talk
“What’s in a Zine? A Public Ancestry of Blogs”:
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