Johnson-Eilola, “The Database and the Essay”

Johnson-Eilola,
Johndan. "The Database and the Essay: Understanding Composition
as Articulation."
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding
the Teaching of Composition
. Wysocki et. al., eds. Logan: Utah State Univ. Press, 2004. 199-226.

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Open Gallery

The open gallery introduces variation–a lift!–to the withering paces of the
semester. I’d never tried anything quite like it before, and to be honest,
even though I listed it on the course schedule for WRT302, I considered a
reversal of plans right up until two days before. The open gallery
emphasizes circulation, conversation; whatever the compositional pieces,
there’s a gathering, music, movement, laughter. A lightness.

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