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Rhetoric RSS FeedsTell your Librarian - Because I do not expect anyone to pay one hundred and eighty of their hard-earned dollars for an academic book, I thought that you might want to let your school's librarian know about this great new book called Design and Implementation of Educational Games, which I co-edited with Diane Wilcox and which is to be released at the end of March or in early April by IGI-Global. if you don't like to read traditional books anymore, an electronic version is also available.read more...Feed Source: kairosnews.org 2010 Graduate Research Network @ Computers and Writing Conference - Make your plans now! We invite proposals for work-in-progress discussions at the 11th annual Graduate Research Network at the 2010 Computers and Writing Conference hosted by Purdue University.read more... Matt Interviews R.A. Montgomery (author/publisher of Choose Your Own Adventure) - Hi, everyone. Been awhile since I posted any updates, but a timely email from Charlie concerning the little bit part I've been playing in Stargate Universe sent me back here to see how ol' Kairosnews has been doing. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy a video interview I did recently with R.A. Montgomery, author and publisher of the famous Choose-Your-Own-Adventure series of books for young people. Mr. Montgomery and I talked about many topics related to the books, including his thoughts on education. Enjoy!read more... CFW: Spatial Praxes: Theories of Space, Place, and Pedagogy (Summer 2012) - Spatial Praxes: Theories of Space, Place, and Pedagogy, a 2012 summer special issue of Kairos
Guest Editors: Dr. Amy Kimme Hea, Ashley J. Holmes, and Jennifer Haley-Brown read more... Summer Seminar in Rhetoric & Composition: June 7-11, 2010. Michigan State University - This seminar focuses on helping first-year writing teachers and administrators improve writing instruction. Prominent figures in the field run all-day workshops that facilitate the integration of innovative pedagogies and practices. This year's keynote address will be given by Katie Malcom and Nancy DeJoy the evening of June 6. Full-day workshops will be facilitated by Bump Halbritter, Karl Stolley & Amy Ferdinandt Stolley, Patricia Sullivan, Lisa Green, Nancy DeJoy & Steven T. Lessner, June 7-11, respectively. Participants may attend one or more days of the workshop.read more... Dr Hairy in: Phoning the London Hospital -
In "ordinary life" I work as an administrator in the NHS, and in collaboration with my friends Julian Le Saux and David Hindmarsh I have recently started to put together a series of 10-minute puppet-videos chronicling the misadventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner called Dr Hairy.read more... Not-so-silly Millie: An appreciation of Millie Niss -
Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of Millie Niss, the writer and new media artist, who died in November of last year.read more... Virtual Writing Teams - This semester another instructor and I are going to attempt "across-section" collaboration on projects. For a large project pairs or threesomes of students from his writing section will collaborate with pairs from my section of a technical writing course. The goal is to have students experience online collaboration similar to an all-online course, but with with an extensive safety net.
Anyone else work with a colleague to create virtual teams? What worked and what didn't? read more... Retrogaming with my Tween - My 11yo gamer son plays a text adventure for the first time and asks for another one before bedtime. We stayed up until almost midnight, and I posted these screencasts the next day.
We started with Adam Cadre's "9:05", and continued with the Crowther and Woods classic "Colossal Cave Adventure".read more... CFP: Web 2.0 Applications in Writing Classrooms Deadline extended to Jan. 25, 2010 - Writing instructors who teach online or in networked classrooms are embracing highly collaborative Web 2.0 applications in their writing pedagogy. This essay collection, under contract with Fountainhead Press in the X Series for Professional Development, seeks to provide writing instructors with examples of writing classroom pedagogy that has creatively and effectively used new Web 2.0 applications in composition courses (such as FYC, Research Writing, Basic Writing, Argumentative Writing,and so forth).read more... Am I an Expressivist? - I've always thought that no, I'm really not an expressivist. I'm much more interested in assigning research-based argument writing in my classes than I am in assigning personal narratives or personal essays. That being said, it isn't as though those genres are mutually exclusive, obviously. Here's where I stand now:
In my own experience having written a whole lot of different texts for academic audiences, the response to what I write is overwhelmingly more positive when I make it personal and accessible -- chatty, even -- than when I write a paper that more closely resembles the IMRAD tone and structure. I've also noticed that for academic lectures, not just ones I've given but ones I've attended, audience response is much more positive when a speaker tells stories along with presenting information and argument. ... Thoughts on Basic (and Not-So-Basic) Writing - So far in my graduate course this semester, among other readings, I've assigned Mina Shaughnessy's introduction to Errors and Expectations, an excerpt from Robert Connors' Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy, an excerpt from Ken Macrorie's Telling Writing, and David Bartholomae's "Inventing the University." These four I mention are really forming a constellation in my mind about teaching academic writing to beginners, especially the place of grammar, that dude who just will not leave the party.
For one thing -- as I'm pleased the students in class picked up on -- when most people say "grammar," they don't mean only grammar. It's a shorthand, umbrella term for a lot of organizational, rhetorical, and stylistic conventions that the user of the term "grammar" doesn't know how to articulate. Every time I read Bartholomae's essay (PDF)... Macrorie Concept Map - This afternoon in my composition pedagogy course, we talked about Ken Macrorie's Telling Writing -- the excerpt from the Norton Book of Composition Studies, anyway. We also talked about the article by Peter Elbow in the same anthology. As I was preparing for class, I thought it would be fun to make a diagram of Macrorie's idea of "Engfish," the unfortunate result of a lot of schooling in writing, next to his definition of "good writing." I plan to say more about expressivism, the approach to teaching writing that Macrorie and Elbow are often associated with, in a near-future post. But for now, the concept map:
... Narrowing Research Paper Topics - I want to start off by stating my awareness of Sharon Crowley's position in "The Evolution of Current-Traditional Rhetoric" that narrowing down an essay topic is an overly simple, current-traditional approach to invention. I concede that she has a good point and that just "narrowing down" without a specific rhetorical purpose for doing so is problematic. However, it is practical and expedient to have good strategies for focusing during the research and writing process, and years of experience -- both teaching and writing -- convince me that research papers are much, MUCH BETTER when the topics are narrow.
So I'm working on a handout to add to the 70+ documents on my writing program's site for instructors. To that site, I upload all the documents I can possibly think of that could help someone teaching writing: assignment handouts, descriptions of class activities, policies, procedures someone even requested that I write a script for an email a teacher could use to warn a s... Resolutions - Resolutions for 2010:
1. Post to the blog at least twice a week.
2. Do some research-related writing, and reading, EVERY day if AT ALL possible. There will definitely be some days in 2010 that I'm, you know, in the hospital or otherwise out of commission.
3. Starting as soon as I've completely recovered from the birth, get back into a regular exercise routine: about three times a week.
... CCCC-IP Annual Article: Two Competing Copyright Curricula - I'm excited about this year's CCCC-IP Annual. We're looking at having at least six articles in the 2009 publication, which will be my third as editor. I plan on getting my article for it finished in the next week or two. Usually the articles cover the developments in copyright and intellectual property law over the past year; this year will be no different except for a couple of reviews of books that were published in the latter half of 2008 that I decided to make exceptions for.
But for my article, I wanted to cover something that happened in 2009 if possible. I did some reading through the 2009 archives of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society's site, and then I found the topic.
In 2009, both the Recording Industry Association of America and the Electronic Frontier Foundation released curricula for teaching children about copyright and intellectual ... Christmas Menu - Tomorrow we're planning on eating the following:
turkey, which is brining overnight
mashed potatoes with roasted garlic, olive oil, butter, salt, pepper, and rosemary (cooked this evening ahead of time)
carrot soufflé, which I prepped tonight and will bake tomorrow
chicken and sausage gumbo with rice, which Jonathan made yesterday
fried okra (using okra left over after making the gumbo)
collards
and for dessert, three kinds of cookies:
lactation cookies, not because I need the milk supply yet -- just because they're yummy.
praline cookies: a little something I came up with. Pillsbury cut'n'bake sugar cookie dough + praline pecans on top.
and snickerdoodles our neighbor gave us.
(I'm still trying to decide on one more side dish: corn roasted... Clancy Ratliff's Opinion About What Makes a Good Teaching Portfolio - The following remarks constitute my personal opinion about what a teaching portfolio, a.k.a. ?evidence of excellence in teaching,? should look like and contain. Not everyone may agree with me, but I have seen a lot of teaching portfolios, not only in my training of new teachers as part of my role as Director of First-Year Writing, but also as the chair of a hiring committee.
Questions to Answer
A reader should have the answers to these three basic questions after reading your teaching portfolio. Ideally, they'll be addressed toward the beginning:
1.How long has this person been teaching?
2.How many (and which) courses has this person taught?
3.How many (and what kinds of) student populations has this person taught?
You can provide an ?Overview? page that answers these questions. Your curriculum vita should have a ?Teaching Experience? section, and you can use that if you like. You can expand that section slightly to give a short blurb about... Bullets! -
I really will be rebooting the blog soon. It will be a New Year's resolution; I've had a lot of success with those in the past.
Today at church, one of Henry's Sunday School teachers told me that during their little birthday party (for Jesus), they'd given the children gingerbread cookies. Henry took his over to the nativity scene and put it in the manger. I relay this anecdote simply because it is SUCH a Henry thing to do. He is ALWAYS stashing food in little cups and boxes, even shoes. It's cute, but yeesh.
I'm almost finished with my syllabus for next semester. I'm teaching English 501, a.k.a. the T.A./pedagogy course. The last time I taught it, I had a pretty good setup going; each week we'd focus on one particular approach: process/post-process, cognitive theory, critical pedagogy, collaborative learning, etc. But now I've switched books; before, I used ... Inscriptions on Desks - I've been doing a lot of class observations lately in fulfillment of my role as Director of First-Year Writing. As I sit in the back of the classroom for these observations, I decided to collect the epigrammatic statements that students write on the backs of desk chairs (line breaks in original):
I hate school
Gun Town
Ballin'
K?is theSHIT!
Fuckthisclass
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