This is my first post using WordPress. This blog’s purpose is to house my research for my seminar project for English 595: Language, Technology, and Culture. I orginally got the idea to keep a research log on a blog from Andrea Lunsford’s The Everyday Writer, 3rd edition, in which she writes:
You might prefer to begin a Web log (blog) for your research project. You can use it to record your thoughts on the reading you are doing and, especially, add links from there to Web sites, documents, and articles you have found online.
I discussed this with my teacher, Lisa Ede, and she the suggested that I go through OSUWrite’s pilot program. After talking to Mark and Jon at Technology Across the Curriculum, they set me up with a blog using WordPress. I’m really excited for the potential of this blog, and of bloggin in the future for research. Can you imagine thousands of researchers posting on blogs, leaving comments, while papers are still in their prewriting and writing stages? Wow, this brings into quesiton all sorts of ideas about authorship (individual vs. communal), and about how we organize our thoughts and research. I’m really excited to see where this experiment takes me (and my paper).
The topic of my seminar project, by the way, is experimental narratives and writing, inspired by Lance Olsen’s interview with Larry McCaffery in 1998’s Paradoxa. Since I’m at the earliest stages of research, I really don’t know how I’m narrowing down my scope yet, so really, this is the paper’s inception (well, actually, starting around 9:00 last night when I came up with the topic for the paper).
Hi Michael,
I looked at your blog the day that you sent it to me, but I’ve been too busy to respond. It’s cool to return to it and see that you’ve set up categories and are actively using it in your research. I’ll be very interested to see how this develop.
BTW, it might work for you to include some of your blog entries in your final essay.
Thanks for your willingness to participate in the OSUWrite pilot project.
Lisa
PS I think it would be neat to share this with others in class. Will you remind me this Tuesday to pull this up, and then you can tell the class about your experience. Others might be interested in setting up blogs for their research project.
I don’t think they could do it through OSUWrite–they’re pretty maxed out. But they could easily do it through blogger.
Lisa
PS I don’t know how many decisions you made re the design of your blog, but I like its look–and I really like its title.