About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
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Category Archives: Writing 511 Teaching Writing (Fall 2005)
how to mark student errors
Earlier in the quarter, I had a tough time marking errors. Sometimes I wouldn’t mark any in student work; other times, I would mark a lot. Sometimes I would only mark those that I saw were consistant errors. When I … Continue reading
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
Writing 511 will be blogged here as well
I have been keeping my notes and research from Writing 511 (The Teaching of Writing) at another blog on blogger, but I like this blog so much (and I think this blog will become where I work on my thesis … Continue reading
my five minute presentation tomorrow, draft one
I just wrote this, and I just practiced reading it. It clocked in at 5 minutes 30 seconds. I have to cut at least 30 seconds, preferrably more so that I can slow down my reading, but here is draft … Continue reading
Gergen’s article – read this
Read Gergen’s “Social Saturation and the Populated Self” in Hawisher and Selfe, eds. Marietta has this book. actually, it’s also in Gergen’s book The Saturated Self, call number BF697 .G39 1991, which is still available at the library.