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Video Resources From the Prelinger Archives
I had my students blog about videos they found in the Prelinger archive about writing technologies, print culture, etc. Below are some links to some of what they found. Writing and Reading Technologies Remington Typewriter Commercial (1958) Secretary’s Day (1947, interesting … Continue reading
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Some Background to the Self-Publishing Debates & Moving Beyond “Self-Publishing”
As Ewan Morrison reminded me, most articles about self-publishing are almost too melodramatic to be productive. I’ve been doing some historical work on self-publishing, and I’ve noticed how many of the same complaints and issues recur over the last 130 years … Continue reading
Mass Literacy and the Death of Writing
This is a quotation from William Jackson Lord’s 1962 book How Authors Make a Living. The book is incredibly difficult to find. I am sharing these paragraphs because 1) they tickled me; 2) the exact same arguments are constantly recycled in … Continue reading
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Priceless
I’m doing some research at the moment on publishing and the history of publishing scams. Today I was reading an 1887 text from England called The Grievances between Authors and Publishers, a Report of the Conferences of the Incorporated Society … Continue reading
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Trip Report
I wrote a review of a seminar I attended on composition research methods at Dartmouth this summer. It is posted at the Scholar Electric, the blog of the Computers and Composition Digital Press. Cliff Notes of the post: It is … Continue reading
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More Reflections on Digital Authorship after #CWCON
As Alex Reid points out, Computers and Writing provided a reminder that scholarly presses continue to cope with declining monograph sales. In the scholarly press roundtable, the editor of the University of Michigan Press gave the often noted statistic that … Continue reading
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Word Cloud for the 2011 Computers and Writing Conference Program
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Multilingual Writing Event
The College Writing Program and the Center for the Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship are sponsoring a screening and discussion of the documentary film “Writing Across Borders.” Produced by the writing program at Oregon State, “Writing Across Borders” addresses … Continue reading
A Response to Roxane Gay’s Thoughtful Post on Self-Publishing
As a number of high profile stories in the press have suggested, self-publishing is growing rapidly. Some indie authors are leaving traditional publishing to self-publish (e.g., Barry Eisler), and some are moving from self-publishing to traditional publishing via 7 figure … Continue reading
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The Wiki Revision Study
I am in the middle of reading Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia. Cummings comes right out in the first pages and lets me know I am not the audience for this book. The book is not … Continue reading