Links for the day
- MoveOn.org Civic Action: Vote for your favorite ad: Four ads from MoveOn: ad as commentary.
- www.AntiWarPosters.com - The Propaganda Remix Project Great slide show on this website.
Links for the day
- Composition Studies/English Education Connections | The Writing Instructor Interesting article with 4 perspectives on the connections between English Education and WPA Work. Very nice table of dos and don'ts, and an excellent works cited that I should try and follow-up on. This article is also part of the re-birth of The Writi
- Gender Ads.Com Amazing website that has collected print ads, some of which objectify women, some objectify men, some both, and then a few additional types of ads. Great explanation of methods for analyzing ads, and probably much I haven't seen yet.
Links for the day
- Rhetorical Analysis Assignment A nicely developed rhetorical analysis assignment with a focus on advertising. Good supplemental questions to ask of an ad.
- Writing Center I've been thinking about replacing the rhetorical analysis assignment with an ad analysis assignment, and Jennifer Beech's assignment is the #1 Google return for "ad analysis assignment."
Links for the day
- What really matters in college: how students view & value liberal education Liberal Education - Find Articles A report on college students' attitudes generally: "It was extremely difficult for the students in our focus groups to name specific outcomes of college that are important to them. In generating their own lists of important outcomes, they tended to descri
- What Does It Mean to Be "College-Ready"? Connection: New England's Journal of Higher Education - Find Articles A few short notes on what it means to be college ready--open to change, active participants in their own learnings, etc. Might be a nice short piece to share with students. Also relevant to commentary.
- My Son, the Reader: One Story of What Can Happen in the First Year of College Peer Review - Find Articles This short personal essay provides one testimony of a students being introduced to literature at college and the light bulbs go off. Not a comp class, but a literature class; should Introduction to Literature be required?
Links for the day
- Policy Center on the First Year of College - National Survey Findings This survey covers first-year college in general, not first year english specifically, but English, Math, and other subjects frequently make up the first year experience, so this survey might be useful.
- The New America Foundation | New Voices, Innovative Ideas, Post-Partisan Policy This website appears to be a possible source for commentaries, interesting ideas, etc. A nice contrast to the MTV Think website, perhaps?
- A Rapprochement Between Dramatismand Argument An essay that tries to reconcile the formalist tradition in argument theory with the contextualist tradition in rhetorical theory. Not much application, but interesting, rich treatment of theory.
- An Articulation of a Fragmented Discipline: A Postmodern Conception of Formalism and Rhetoric in Professional Communication This article attempts to get at a tension I think is productive in all writing courses: rhetoric and formalism. His application is professional communication, but similar ideas are relevant for fyc.
- Enculturation: Christine Farris For some time now, in John Trimbur's courses, students both analyze and produce public discourse like AIDS awareness materials for different audiences and purposes. Composition probably least involves rhetoric when we have students only practicing discour
The Official (for now) Home Page of Kevin Brooks, Associate Professor of English, North Dakota State University.
Working at the interface of literacy and electracy, print culture and visual culture, text and image, visual and acoustic space. What better way to hold these things together than SuprGlu?
Online Publications
"Changing the Ground of Graduate Education: Wireless Laptops Bring Stability, not Mobility to Graduate Teaching Assistants." (Abstract only.) Going Wireless."The Classical Trivium: A Heuristic and Heuretic for New Media and Digital Communication." Kairos 11.3 (2007).
"What's Going On? Listening to Music, Composing Videos." Computers and Composition Online. 2006.
"Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs." Into the Blogosphere, 2004.
"The McLuhan Retrieval Reviewed." Kairos 9.1 (2004).
Online Projects, in Progress
"Career Compass and Multimedia Lab: The MyStory as Pedagogical, Problem-finding Genre." Presented at the North Dakota Humanities Summit, Oct. 2006."Strangers in a Strange Land: A MEmorial for the Lost Boys of the Sudan*." Presented at Computers and Writing 2007.
"Understanding Weblogs: A Visua-Verbal Probe." Presented at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference. Reviewed by Catherine Hooper (slightly different title).
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