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Insignificant Wranglings: On Sirc, Reaching for the Serial and the Pithy
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Documenting my digital life. On Sirc, Reaching for the Serial and the Pithy. For today's Expository Writing class we read Sirc's 2010 essay "Serial Composition," which asks why writing instruction has remained tied to the same form for the past 150 years. Sirc imagines whether writing instruction could have followed architecture, painting, sculpture, and music- the other compository arts- and embraced minimalist methods. The move offered by Sirc reminds me of Ulmer's move toward "Haiku Logic" in. The stu...
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Insignificant Wranglings: Expository Writing, Postpedagogy, Summer 2013
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Documenting my digital life. Expository Writing, Postpedagogy, Summer 2013. This summer I find myself teaching another section of Expository Writing, an upper-division writing course and graduation requirement. For the past few years I have taught the course in a fairly eccentric way, one that matches up with my proclivities for postpedagogy. Students choose a topic in which they have a personal investment and read and write about that topic for the entirety of the course. Those who desire to learn.
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Insignificant Wranglings: June 2012
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Documenting my digital life. I'm sitting in a meeting, prepping to be a live Blogger during the RNC (scheduled to be held in Tampa). And, during the meeting, I've been following the anticipated Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Healthcare Act ( its being covered live here). It looks like a win for the poor, tired, and yearning to be healthy. It is a good day to be an American. UPDATE: A Plain English Interpretation by Anne Howe:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
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Insignificant Wranglings: January 2013
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Documenting my digital life. Red Sox Hot Stove Season. While the Sox haven't given out a mega-contract, they have signed quite a few players to mid-level deals. Here's my rundown in order of appreciation from best to worst. A strong acquisition, since the Sox didn't give up a top prospect to acquire their new closer. It will be interesting to see if they can close a deal to keep him, since he is scheduled to become a free agent after 2013. The real question for me is "where will Napoli play? His offense ...
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Insignificant Wranglings: Latour and "Delegation"
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Documenting my digital life. I'm researching Latour's views on Christianity for a revise and resubmit and came along this passage near the end of. We Have Never Been Modern. I don't know how many times I have read this book, but I never recognized the simple and elegant significance of this passage:. Latour will amplify this conclusion, stressing that something is only as real as its connections to other entities in a network (and Harman emphasizes this metaphysical postulate in. April 26, 2013 at 8:17 AM.
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Insignificant Wranglings: May 2012
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Documenting my digital life. Twain on Writing Ecologies (err, Plagiarism). I stumbled upon this today over at Letters of Note, a letter from Mark Twain to Helen Keller after he learned she had been accused of plagiarism. Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that "plagiarism" farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! Kevin Smith on Digital Economics. So I just discovered Reddit's series of interviews, IAMA.
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Insignificant Wranglings: CCCC's Recap #1: Expanding Rhetorical Publics: the Zoo, the Cemetery, and the Chapel"
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Documenting my digital life. CCCC's Recap #1: Expanding Rhetorical Publics: the Zoo, the Cemetery, and the Chapel". While at CCCC's, I had the pleasure of attending Steven Mailloux, D. Diane Davis, and Michelle Ballif's panel "Expanding Rhetorical Publics: the Zoo, the Cemetery, and the Chapel.". The first work of rhetoric isn't necessarily identification (. But rather the establishment of a mood (pathos); an affective register from which we can share a world. Maybe I should have gone to more theoretical...
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Insignificant Wranglings: Petition Against Tuition Scaling
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Documenting my digital life. Petition Against Tuition Scaling. Please take a moment to sign this petition against Scott's proposed plan. Feel free to copy/paste my response (above). From Dive Bars to Tartar. Selecting which college degrees are the most important and raising the cost of tuition for other degrees reminds me of the following quote from A Time To Be Born by Dawn Powell -. Was it true, then, that this world was filled with men and women merely marking time before their cemetery? Some Thoughts...
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Insignificant Wranglings: April 2012
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Documenting my digital life. Cooper is working against what we call an anthropocentric tradition that tends to conceptualize power purely in human terms. To simplify: do guns kill people or do people kill people? The traditional answer to this question is the latter, that people kill people. Guns are just a convenient tool. Why is Cooper bringing this up in a book on technology? To rip Cooper and Edbauer together quickly: Things. Sojourner Truth and the War on Women. From "Ain't I a Woman? The title for ...
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Insignificant Wranglings: March 2013
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Documenting my digital life. CCCC's Recap #1: Expanding Rhetorical Publics: the Zoo, the Cemetery, and the Chapel". While at CCCC's, I had the pleasure of attending Steven Mailloux, D. Diane Davis, and Michelle Ballif's panel "Expanding Rhetorical Publics: the Zoo, the Cemetery, and the Chapel.". The first work of rhetoric isn't necessarily identification (. But rather the establishment of a mood (pathos); an affective register from which we can share a world. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). In an effort to ...
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