Research in Composition: 9 More Must-See Summer Texts
May 21, 2010
You know how you feel when you turn something in just by the deadline, and then a few hours later find something else you wish you could have included? That’s how I feel this week.
Just after I published this week’s Inbox blog on
10 Things You’ll Want To Read This Summer, Risa Gorelick-Ollom announced that the Research Network Forum (RNF) eLectures from CCCC 2010 are online. Once you click the eLectures link, scroll down toward the end of the page for access to all of these great audio texts:
- “Research in Composition is practical…” by Beth Hewett
- “Research in Composition is collaborative…” by Frank P. Gaughan
- “Research in Composition is plastic, moveable, and fluid…” by Ethna D. Lay
- “Research in Composition…and the larger universe of research.” by Norbert Elliott
- “Research in Composition pushes the envelope…” by Risa Gorelick and Lisa DeTora
- “Connecting Composition Research to Community Politics….and still getting tenure.” by Stephen J. Parks
- “Research in Composition…and Writing Centers.” by Michael A. Pemberton
- “Research in Composition is rigorous and rhetorical…” by Rebecca J. Rickly
- “Research in Composition…and computers.” by Janice Walker
Why do you have to scroll down to get to these important recordings? The page Gorelick-Ollom shared is more than just the RNF eLectures. In fact, there are currently 34 eLectures, beginning with Lester Faigley on “Rethinking Writing” from 2007. You’ll find recordings on inquiry, ePortfolios, assessment, service learning, revision, webzines, pop culture, and much more.
If you have some spare time this summer, you definitely want to spend part of it with the RNF eLectures and these other resources presented courtesy of Pearson Composition Professional Development. Oh, and if that’s not incentive enough, Gorelick-Ollom promises us that that the plenary videos from RNF 2010 will be online later next month.