Don’t take my somewhat unhappy words from yesterday too darkly; like my first experience last year, I found this Conference on College Composition and Communication to be generative, fun, and inspiring. I truly do love my field, and I love my people, as much as they often drive me crazy. I went to a lot […]
Continue reading →I come to the Conference on College Composition and Communication expecting to be depressed about many aspects of the field. I’m used to that. Nothing makes me sadder, though, than the number of scholars who display distaste for the very subject our field is oriented to, or was: the teaching of writing. I know, very […]
Continue reading →One of the more well-known and frequently-cited quotes in rhetoric and composition is Janice Lauer’s definition of rhet/comp as “a dappled discipline.” We are famously diverse, in terms of methodology, epistemology, theoretical assumptions, types of classes taught, departments we belong to, institutional structure…. So it’s typical, here at our biggest shindig, for someone like me […]
Continue reading →Greetings from the 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication, in sunny Las Vegas. I’m here to present my paper, “The Syllabus as the Enemy of Public Writing,” on how assessment measures typically fail to reflect the theoretical and pedagogical commitments of public writing classes. I’m excited to be presenting, excited to be in Las […]
Continue reading →Just for fun! A little chat about The Great Gatsby with my brother John.
Continue reading →This coming semester (which begins on Monday, eep!) will be my last required set of courses. After this spring, I’ll have completed my five core courses, finished two secondary areas, and taken my linguistics requirements. I will still take classes next year; that’s quite common in my program. I’ll be taking a class in statistics […]
Continue reading →“Schoolchildren who are asked to trace early overseas voyages on identical outline maps are likely to become absentminded about the fact that there were no uniform world maps in the era when the voyages were made. A similar absentmindedness on a more sophisticated level is encouraged by increasingly refined techniques for collating manuscripts and producing […]
Continue reading →Sorry I’ve been so out of the loop. Here’s a description of some current research of mine, taken from something I wrote in a different forum. I’m currently engaged in a research project investigating the composition processes of second language learners, in this case Chinese and Hindi L1s. I am utilizing corpus linguistics software to […]
Continue reading →I’m very excited to say that my field’s flagship journal, College Composition and Communication, has just published an article by my mentor and advisor at my MA institution, Robert Schwegler. Coauthored with his frequent collaborator Chris Anson, the article describes exciting research into eye tracking technology and suggests possible applications in pedagogy. I truly believe […]
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