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I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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reminder to read this
Michael, I know you’re busy right now, so I wanted to write this as a reminder. Definitely check out Computers and Composition, Volume 21, Number 3, 2004, for issues on hypertext, queer issues in the classroom and with technology, etc.
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a note to myself to read this
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/jon1.htm
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after our ma writing group meeting
We had a really good conversation in our MA Writing Group meeting on Wednesday regarding my thesis topic ideas. It was really helpful and very engaging. In fact, Sarah B. pointed out how my topic was the first thesis topic … Continue reading
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thesis “proposal” for MAWG
Cross-posted on MAWG: Polemics and Irenics in Argument – it’s a start? In her essay “The Womanization of Rhetoric,“ Sally Miller Gearhart writes that she believes “that any intent to persuade is an act of violence“ because the persuader has … Continue reading
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Kevin Brooks’s “Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext”
Brooks, Kevin. “Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext: A Genre-Baed Pedagogy.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 2.3 (2002): 337-356. In this article, Brooks argues for a genre-based pedagogy for teaching hypertexts. There are a few … Continue reading
