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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- Russell, David. “Activity Theory and Its Implications for Writing Instruction.” In Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction. Ed. Joseph Petraglia. (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum,1995): 51-78. « New Seeds on Call for CCCarnival: Sirc’s “Resisting Entropy”
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Category Archives: CCCC 09
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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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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Wordle Tag Cloud of CCCC09 talk
“What’s in a Zine? A Public Ancestry of Blogs”:
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confirmation: san fran in march
I just got my acceptance email for my proposal for CCCC in San Fransisco in March. And I just checked the PSU calendar: it’s during Spring Break. Yay! A benefit of semesters is that 4C’s won’t fall during the first … Continue reading
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