Barthes,
Roland. "The Death of the Author." Image-Music-Text.
Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. 142-148.
Tag: writing
Dias et al., “Distributed Cognition at Work”
Dias,
Patrick, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway, and Anthony Pare. "Distributed
Cognition at Work." Cushman, Kintgen, Kroll, and Rose 199-208.
Baron, “From Pencils to Pixels”
Barron,
Dennis. "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies."
Cushman, Kintgen, Kroll, and Rose 70-84.
Ong, “Writing Is a Technology that Restructures Thought”
Ong,
Walter J. "Writing Is a Technology that Restructures Thought."
Cushman, Kintgen, Kroll, and Rose 19-31.
Grabill, “The Written City”
Grabill,
Jeffrey T. "The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks,
and Civic Literacies." Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan, eds.
City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices. Albany: SUNY Press,
2003. 128-140.
Porter, Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing
Porter,
James E. Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing. Greenwich, Conn.:
Ablex, 1998.
Trying to Catch Me Writing Dirty
On the road to Staples and then Home Depot this afternoon. I need three
translucent plastic pockets, jackets for stuffing with collected scraps of
writing and whatnot. From H.D., a few planting implements, seeds, and so on.
Faced with some regreening in the days ahead (mentally, physically,
botanically).
Unitization Reports
On a break from writing end-of-semester papers for CCR651
and GEO781, I thought I’d shock each of them into a list of noun and noun
phrases by applying the same methods we’ve strung together for CCC
Online. Et voila! The lists aren’t meaningful in quite the way a
sentence-long summary would be. Yet that’s the point. They’re
differently meaningful, suggestive. Maybe even generative if I can trace
through some of the terminal knots tomorrow.
Chairs Enough
Strangely enough, I’ve been writing in the Florida room lately.
I’d never heard of a Fla. room until my brother and his family threw down a
mortgage on a place in East Detroit ten years ago. The house had a glass-enclosed
room on the south end of the house. High sun exposure. A soft urban
breeze. They called it a Florida room. And that was that. I
stayed in that room when I visited on the weekends away from Saginaw.
Now, in the place we’ve called home since November, we have a
comparable room. Lately it has been warm enough to set up a makeshift
workspace in t/here, and over the last few days, it’s been
not-too-hard-not-too-soft writing environ of goodly inspiration. I’ve
never before been conscious of an oversensitivity to writing spaces.
Thought I was above it, immune, able to write here, there, anywhere, in other
words, no matter the circumstances. But whereas the official office and
living room (both adequate for working, with decent furniture, lighting, etc.)
have been fine for reading lately, they’re traps for writing. Snares! I don’t
want to overemphasize the consequences of space for what I perceived to be a
brief and now-passing writing rut–a moment of dread at the immanence of
semester’s end. Might’ve been the full moon for all I know. But a
change of scene has done something; I’ve vacated the stifling writing sites,
replacing them with this one: an over-sunshined porch with a card table and
enough folding chairs to host a small party. Headphones leveled up with
entrancing techno loops from
AfterhoursDJs.org. I hope not to jinx myself by saying it, but I’ve been
pleasantly surprised by the difference brought on by simply changing scenes.
Diversity Writing
Marzluf, Phillip P. "Diversity Writing: Natural Languages, Authentic Voices."
CCC 57.3 (2006): 503-522.
Later today our grad group (CCRGC) is
engaging Marzluf’s
recent
CCC essay in conversation for an hour. We developed the grad group at
the beginning of the semester as a supplement to what’s already a solid lineup
of colloquia. Why? Primarily so we could invite faculty for focused
discussions and devise our own brief sessions around common concerns (CV
workshops, conference proposal collaboration, practicing talking about our work,
reading stuff outside of coursework, etc.).