Damn the uncomfortable readers. It’s time to start writing again. Some time ago, more than a decade, I wrote on this blog all the time. There were daily updates on what I was writing, links to things that I found,…
Category: Personal Journal
Connecting Selber and Halliday
Ever since I looked at the review of Stuart Selber’s Multiliteracies for a Digital Age in Composition Forum 14.2 (Courtesy of a tip from Bradley Dilger), I have been reflecting on my notes about M. A. K. Halliday’s literacy engagements.…
The Harm We Can Do
Sara Kadjer shared “Can Reading Logs Ruin Reading for Kids?” from The Atlantic. The piece dredged up some memories for me, good and bad. I guess I am an oddity, but I always loved tracking what I read when I…
Alphabetic Text as the Only Text
I’m befuddled by this MLA call for proposals for a volume on the Changing Role of Writing in Composition. Everything I understand about multimodal texts tells me that any alphabetic text is not tapping the linguistic mode alone; but from…
Free Access, If You’re Patient and Persistent
Routledge (Taylor and Francis) is offering a nice collection of articles to mark the RSA conference this weekend: Rhetoric & Change: A Free Access Article Collection in Collaboration with the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA). It looks like a grand…
distinguished instructors?
Today’s news bulletin from Virginia Tech announced, “Two faculty members receive 2016 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award.” It’s a good and wonderful thing for the two professors: Jacqueline E. Bixler, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Spanish, and Michael F. Hochella Jr., University…
just 10 minutes a day…
On Wednesday, I happened upon Daphne Gray-Grant’s “How 5 minutes a day can revitalize your writing.” I am writing constantly, so I’m not sure how much I need revitalized. I do know however that I have lots of quick thoughts…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2013-05-11
Singular 'They': a Footnote – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/s1Mtss0glC -> Yesterday's Trekkies Are Today's EdTechies | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/yczQoezPdv -> More Effective Public Speaking | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/n8TWW6doUp -> One Size Does Not…
On Writing When You Aren’t Sure What to Write
I need to write what I call a spare blog post, that is a post that I can send to the editors of the Bedford Bits blog to use one week when I’m sick or overwhelmed and don’t have time…
2000 Posts!!!
I logged into the blog just now to add the January Ink’d In to the newsletter archive list (yes, I’m behind) and found this summary information. That’s right. There are officially 2000+ posts here now. Now never mind that about…