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Summer Academic Goals
This summer promises to be a heady time for me. I’ve been setting aside money for some time, so that I might be able to live this summer without having to work. I’m doing so because I’m taking my preliminary … Continue reading
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2013 CCCCs: Feeling Good
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 … Continue reading
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2013 CCCCs: Writing Scholars Against Writing
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 … Continue reading
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2013 CCCCs: Band of Outsiders
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 … Continue reading
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2013 CCCCs
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 … Continue reading
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Spring 2013 Classes
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 … Continue reading
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quote for the day
“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 … Continue reading
A recent project
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 … Continue reading
Some Research I’ve Been Looking Forward To
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 … Continue reading
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quote for the day
“So far as the social sciences are concerned, all this means that their oft-lamented lack of character no longer sets them apart. It is even more difficult than it always has been to regard them as underdeveloped natural sciences, awaiting … Continue reading
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something else is probably going on here
As a mere consumer of journalism, I tend to think that what’s necessary in journalism isn’t just an adversarial attitude but a universally adversarial attitude, that is, skepticism towards all parties in a given dispute. That doesn’t mean that you … Continue reading
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