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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
Commons-based peer production is third-wave web utopia. It follows the first-wave, where race, gender, and class were going to yield to an ideal public sphere where preexisting power relations didn’t matter, and second-wave, where the interwebz were going to lead … Continue reading
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Review: Nicholas Carr’s _The Shallows_
I tried to like this book. I did. As a digital writing scholar who deeply values print, I am sympathetic to critiques of electronic communication. And I am waiting for a good one. Carr’s book is better than most laments … Continue reading
Peer Review Resources
I. Why Peer Review? Students can improve their papers and receive extra feedback. That is the most obvious reason. But there are other benefits: Students learn to share their writing in their drafting stage. Students write for an audience that … Continue reading
Articles Out
I have two articles out this month. The first is part of a special issue of Computers and Composition, and the second (and longer piece) is in Written Communication. Let me know if you don’t have access.
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