Carnival
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 [...]
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.
linking trimbur and sirc
I didn’t even think about this, but Jeff Ward does a great job of linking Trimbur’s article to the work of Geoffrey Sirc, writing: Geof’s mission, or at least my take on it based in direct conversation as well as reading his book English Composition as a Happening, is that part of what makes it [...]
my contribution to the carnival
Here’s my carnival contribution on John Trimbur’s article “Changing the question: Should writing be studied?” (Composition Studies 31.1, Spring 2003): The discussion so far is pretty rich (see my previous post for a list of other contributors; Ten Minutes a Day and Wind Farm add to the discussion today; I missed Digital Digs from a [...]
joining the trimbur carnival
I just read the John Trimbur article “Changing the question: Should writing be studied?” for the carnival this month, which I’m a bit intimidated by. There’s already been a variety of responses: • Jan 27: Yellow Dog • Jan 27: Collin vs. Blog • Feb 18: Why Not Blog? • Feb 20: Bill Degenaro • [...]
