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Pedagogy Blog: October 2011
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011. And the Debate Goes On: Lundberg and Gunn's Response to Geisler. Lundberg, Christian, and Joshua Gunn. “‘Ouija Board, Are There Any Communications? 8217;: Agency, Ontotheology, and the Death of the Humanistic Subject, or, Continuing the ARS Conversation.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 354 (2005): 83-105. Print. Geisler, Cheryl. “Teaching the Post-Modern Rhetor: Continuing the Conversation on Rhetorical Agency.” Rhetorical Society Quarterly. 354 (2005): 107-12. Print. But will a...
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Pedagogy Blog: February 2012
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Dangers and Promise of the L2 Metaphor in WAC. Matsuda, Paul Kei and Jeffrey Jablonski. “Beyond the L2 Metaphor: Towards a Mutually Transformative Model of ESL/WAC Collaboration.” Academic Writing. 1 (2000): n. pag. Rpt. in Writing across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed Terry Myers Zawacki and Paul M. Rogers. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012. 441-47, Print. Collaborating beyond Peer Review. 14 (2005): 153-73. Print. Wednesday, February 22, 2012. 16 (2007): 194-20...
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Pedagogy Blog: The Promises and Pitfalls of Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity
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Monday, August 6, 2012. The Promises and Pitfalls of Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity. Miscellaneous Readings on Disciplinarity. This week, I read several articles from various journals from the last decade or so (mostly coming from the last five years). These works paint a varied picture of what disciplinarity and even interdisciplinarity can offer English as a whole and writing studies in particular. 461 (2011): 8-21. Print. Composition.” CCC. 594 (2008): 750-80. Print. Web 30 Jul. 2012. Murphy, ...
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Pedagogy Blog: May 2012
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Friday, May 25, 2012. Creswell, John W. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Ed Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009. Print. Blog entry based on 129-226.). Research Questions and Hypotheses. Also helpful in my thinking about research design were the steps on data analysis and interpretation, especially when considering response bias. This refers to the bias created because of non-respondents. Creswell suggests using wave analysis to mitigate response bias—i.e&#...Have contribute...
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Pedagogy Blog: A Week's Worth of Articles--What They Suggest about Digital Writing Research in Practice
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012. A Week's Worth of Articles- What They Suggest about Digital Writing Research in Practice. This week, I emphasized articles from Computers and Composition. In my blog, for two reasons. First, as my attention for the past two weeks has been on digital writing research methods, Computers and Composition. Garrison, Kevin. “An Empirical Analysis of Using Text-to-Speech Software to Revise First-Year College Students’ Essays.” Computers and Composition. 264 (2009): 288-301. Print.
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Pedagogy Blog: Modernist vs. Postmodernist Interdisciplinarity
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Sunday, July 22, 2012. Modernist vs. Postmodernist Interdisciplinarity. Leitch, Vincent B. “Postmodern Interdisciplinarity.” Profession. 2000): 124-31. Print. And how does that affect how her/his colleagues and administrators view their work? On the other hand, if interdisciplinarity is becoming more commonplace and accepted, how much of a concern is this anymore? Are smaller departments better at embracing such interdisciplinarity given the nature of the work required of faculty in those departments?
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Pedagogy Blog: September 2011
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011. 821 Blog 2: What's Old Is New. Leff, Michael. “Tradition and Agency in Humanistic Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric. 362 (2003): 135-47. Print. Wednesday, September 14, 2011. Horner, Bruce, and Min-Zhan Lu. “Working Rhetoric and Composition.” College English. 725 (2010): 470-94. Print. Such uses of these terms, they argue, effectively hamstring the possibility of a dynamic and non-hegemonic discipline. They emphasize the need for a more conscious sense of what. Simple temp...
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Mr. Smith's Perspective: January 2008
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Sunday, January 27, 2008. Musings over Art and Technology. How does technology determine what we imagine Art to be? The Internet has allowed massive distribution of Artistic work within seconds of its uploading. Access to digital replications of Art is immediate and global. The fact that Art can become a digital file which can then be copied and disseminated with no generational loss has affected our understanding of not only what original art is but what ownership is. Did tools change what Art is? Acade...
