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Rhetoric RSS FeedsLooking for Feedback about Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning - Hi, I am just about lead a major change to the way we assess learning and teaching at our University. I am hoping some members of this community will vist this site and post a comment http://medusa.ballarat.edu.au/wordpress/jameso/student-evaluation-of-tea Lookng forward to hearing from you ...Feed Source: kairosnews.org CFP: Journal of Writing Research (http://www.jowr.org/) Special Issue - Exploring a Corpus-Informed Approach to Writing Research
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Since the development of the Brown Corpus in the 1960s, leveraging language corpora and corpus-based methods to analyze and to describe spoken and written language has become an established tradition within the broad field of linguistics. read more... Presidents Say: Lower Drinking Age! - Just read that some 100 odd college and university presidents are calling for a reduction of the drinking age to 18. They seem to think that'll cut back on drinking, since there will no longer be a need to binge when the coast is clear. However, MADD is, uh, not happy about it, and has accused these presidents of not doing their homework. read more... 12 Online Tools for Students w/Reviews - PC Magazine has published a list of 12 Tools for students who want to stay organized this semester. The list includes the usual suspects (RateMyProfessors, Facebook), but there are some here that I hadn't heard of before, such as MyPunchBowl, Mint, and TheDailyPlate. There are also some citation and bib tools here, though I think Word's new built-in bib tools pretty much render them superfluous.... Tweak My Twitter on Twinkle??? - Someone just suggested that they wanted to Tweak my Twitter on Twinkle ? you wanna what?!
In an age where many of us are offended, indeed upset that that our privacy is being diminished by the growing executive powers and their deemed right to listen in, watch, and read our personal communications, it is surprising how much of our private life we are freely giving up. With programs such as twitter and now twinkle, people, including myself, are freely telling those plugged in and signed up what we are doing and where we are at. read more... Kairos 13.1 Released (And Redesign Launched) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 13.1 for Fall 2008 and our new redesign by Kathie Gossett, Karl Stolley, and Doug Eyman. In addition to the redesign, we are also launching two new sections: Inventio, which covers the process of creating webtexts for Kairos, and Disputatio, a forum for readers to respond to the pieces and ideas in Kairos. We invite your feedback on the changes we've made. read more... Lenovo goes netbook with IdeaPad S10 - We've seen Lenovo beefing up its consumer offerings of late, but this is really taking it up a notch. The company just announced its very first netbook, the recently spotted 10.2-inch, Atom-powered little wonder. Sadly, there's little of note in the design -- it seems to have more in common with the MSI Wind and the Eee PC than its Lenovo siblings -- but the $399 starting price is certainly pleasing. That model brings 512MB of RAM and a 80GB hard drive, while a $450 version will be available with 1GB of RAM and 160GB of storage, with both being powered by 1.6GHz Atom chipsets.read more... Looks like Florida is going to get it's first hurricane of the season... -
Looks like Florida may be in for the first storm of the season. It may or may not become a hurricane, but certainly we will get some strong weather no matter what. If you have family around S. Florida, you may want to start making plans, especially if they are elderly. My grandmother is very old and lives alone in S.W. Florida so we will probably go down there this weekend to make sure everything is OK. Plus it gives everyone an excuse to get out of the house.read more... Harry Potter fans are up in arms. - You may or may not seen the news about Harry Potter and the release date being pushed back, but the Harry Potter fans have definitely seen it and they are not happy, to say the least.read more... Lessig predicts an Internet catastrophy and an Internet PATRIOT Act response - I just saw this piece from Fortune reporting that Lawrence Lessig is predicting a catastrophic online event within the next decade that will prompt the US government to unveil an already-written bill similar to the PATRIOT Act which will grant the Fed additional powers in Internet surveilance and investigation. Evidently, Lessig got this information from a counterterrorism expert:read more... And the semester begins - Though I look forward to the fall weather (such as it is!), I am a little sad that my stay-at-home-mom summer is over. We don't have daycare for Henry yet, but we have him on waiting lists all over town. Some of the places don't take babies until they're six months old or a year old. Right now we're taking turns doing childcare, as we have alternating teaching/office hours schedules. We live very close to campus, so this is workable for the time being.
As one would expect, I didn't get as much research done over the summer as I'd hoped, but I did a decent amount of work. I had intended to do the following:
* submit book proposal
* write an article (from scratch, not based on a diss chapter)
* write a proposal for another article
* write a book review
What I actually did was:
* wrote an article (from scratch, not based on a diss chapter)
* wrote a proposal for another article
* wrote part of a book review
I also review... So, how's life with Henry? - Professing Mama wonders what I'm doing with Henry while she's hanging out with/blogging about her baby boy, Chico. Chico was born one day after Henry, but Henry was a couple of weeks early and Chico was a couple of weeks late. So Chico is technically about a month older than Henry, if that makes any sense. I'd expect Chico to be a little developmentally ahead of Henry.
Here are some cute facts about Henry:
1. He loves to "stand" on my and Jonathan's laps. We hold him up under his arms (just barely, only for balance), and he sort of surfs. I mean, he loves putting weight on his legs. Sometimes he'll be fussing and standing him up will calm him. I think he might be figuring balance out a little too, as he has started holding his arms straight out.
2. He doesn't have to be held quite so much anymore. He can sit for short periods in the Bumbo seat and observe what we're doing.
... Sleep Training - is very sad. I finally got to a point where co-sleeping, a.k.a. sleep sharing, a.k.a. letting a thrashing baby sleep next to me while I lay awake for hours and hours because of the thrashing, wasn't working anymore. This is night 5. When we started this, Henry wouldn't even let us put him down in his crib for one full minute without screaming.
From a 1992 edition of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, regarding babies who put up a fuss when being put in the crib to sleep (p. 259):
The habit is usually easy to break once the parents realize that it is as bad for the baby as it is for them. The cure is simple: Put the baby to bed at a reasonable hour, say good night affectionately but firmly, walk out of the room, and don't go back. Most babies who have developed this pattern cry furiously for 20 or 30 minutes the first night, and then when they see that nothing happens, they suddenly fall asleep! The second night the crying is apt to last only 10 mi... Good Ol' Random Bullets -
There's a profile of person in reality TV I just love: the control freak. Specifically I mean Kate Gosselin, Matt Roloff, and Jeff Lewis. It's been a pretty good summer for reality TV in general, actually; I've been loving Shear Genius, Project Runway, and Top Chef in addition to the prior three shows. I've found that my tastes have changed, though; while I used to watch the worst of the garbage, like Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, The Pick-Up Artist, Charm School, The Girls Next Door, etc., I don't find myself getting into those anymore.
I'm very happy for Bradley, Erin, and Madelyn.
There's that one meme about ... Theory and Interdisciplinarity: Kopelson Part Two - The pedagogical imperative, Kopelson argues, is part of a problematic theory-practice relationship in rhetoric and composition studies. "Theory" comes with at least a couple of problems for rhetoric/composition. First, we end up doing hand-wringing over our anxieties that theory doesn't help people, and we ask, like Kopelson brings up, "whom does the theory serve?" Second, we fret over the argument that we only use other people's theory; we don't DO (our own) theory. I like what Kopelson says on 765: "Theory performs the invaluable service of tracing, often in order to fracture, the very consensus around 'reason.' This seems to me to be neither a 'mere' nor a 'sterile' exercise."
The material about theory/practice is most interesting to me insofar as it's connected to interdisciplinarity. Graduate students surveyed by Kopelson wanted the field to become a vibrant interdiscipline with cultural and political significance, but they expressed concern that we're not there yet. A c... The Pedagogical Imperative: Kopelson Part One - Derek has chosen Karen Kopelson's "Sp(l)itting Images; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition" for our most recent rhet-comp blog seminar. I think it's a great choice, and here's the first part of my response:
Kopelson's article is a much-needed, frank discussion of the pedagogical imperative, the idea that any rhetoric and composition research project must necessarily have a "pedagogy hook," or a section about implications of the project for college composition. The pedagogical imperative, Kopelson points out, is for many a matter of ethics: our field's mission, and I use that word with all the evangelical valence it has, is to teach college students how to write. Kopelson brings up the argument that "our research is funded with student dollars," not that she agrees with it or says it's valid -- I don't think it's that simple by any means.
Kopelson's concern is that graduate students ar... Michelle Obama Coverage on Fox News - A media composition for those of us who are into that sort of thing:
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... My Days These Days - There are several reasons I haven't been blogging. First, I took a four-day-long break from the internet when Jonathan, Henry, and I went to Florence, AL to see family and friends. I didn't really miss it.
But the main reason is that I'm using what little free time I have to work on research. I sent off an article manuscript earlier this month -- an article that wasn't based on my dissertation, but written from scratch this summer. I'm working on several other projects too. My days are looking something like this:
8:00: wake up, play with Henry, eat breakfast, do intermittent online reading
~10:30: put Henry in the swing for morning nap. WORK WORK WORK on research during this time.
~12:30: both Jonathan and I play with Henry
~3:00: run errands while Jonathan does baby duty
~5:00: Henry goes down for another nap, research resumes
~7:00: evening relaxation, Henry sits on our laps
~9:30: Henry and I go to sleep (Jonathan stays up... Compounding Pharmacies - This issue wasn't on my radar until just recently when I had to get some prescription cream from a compounding pharmacy, but apparently there's a conflict between compounding pharmacists and the FDA over regulation of compound drugs. The drug companies have a lot at stake in this, what with patents for combinations of drugs and all. That's what interests me the most -- the view from the intellectual property angle. I'd really like to write an article about the way each side is using rhetoric, especially as it pertains to patent rights. There's a lot more information about the various issues in these white papers.
But if you know someone who's already doing research on this topic, kindly let me know so that I don't waste my time, and direct me toward the person doing the research so that I can read it with interest.
... The Claims - 1. Breastfeeding will save you $1200 a year!
Um, no. If I were to add up the cost of what I've spent on breastfeeding, I'm sure it would be more expensive than formula. I won't exactly add it up here, but I'll give an idea:
Breast Pump: $330
Nursing Support Pillow: $35
Session with Lactation Consultant: $85
Nursing Cover: $35
Nursing Bras and Tanks: ~$60 (I get the cheap kind at Target)
Lanolin Ointment: $10
Second Tube of Lanolin Ointment When First Became Contaminated with Thrush: $10
Prescriptions to Treat Thrush: ~$60
Acidophilus, Yogurt, Gentian Violet, and Tubes of Lotrimin AF and Monistat for Thrush: ~$60
I think this will only save me money if I were to nurse Henry exclusively for the next two years, which I don't think I'll be able to do since I go back to work in the fall. [Edited: Okay, not exactly, but I think that if I end up weaning at six months, which I may not, but we'll see, I won't have saved muc... Copyright © 2008, Chicago Best Price. All Rights Reserved. |