Lauer, Janice. "Heuristics and Composition." CCC 21.5 (1970): 396-404.
Lauer, "Heuristics and Composition"
⏳ Approximate reading time: 2 mins
Tag: methods
Daly-Goggin, Authoring A Discipline.
⏳ Approximate reading time: 4 mins
Daly-Goggin, Maureen. Authoring A Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the
Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition. Mahwah, N.J.:
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000.
Searchable text available in Google Book Search.
Unsworth, “New Methods for Humanities Research”
⏳ Approximate reading time: 4 mins
Unsworth,
John. "New Methods for Humanities Research." The 2005 Lyman
Award Lecture. National Humanities Center. Research Triangle Park, NC.
11 Nov. 2005. <http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/ ~unsworth/lyman.htm>.
C’mon, Pokey
⏳ Approximate reading time: 3 mins
I finally got around to reading Lindsay Waters’ CHE diatribe against
Moretti’s work on abstract models and literary studies. I know, it took me
long enough. Collin
mentioned
the article, titled
"Time For Reading," almost two weeks ago, and The Valve‘s Bill Benzon
posted
his thoughts on Waters last Tuesday. Rather than sum up the other
entries here, I’ll put the links in place and move along to a couple of my
reactions.
X-timing Parataxis
⏳ Approximate reading time: 3 mins
I first thought I would call this entry "Two-timing Parataxis" so I could get
at the different relationships parataxis enjoys–simultaneously!–with
syntaxis, on the one hand (cheek?), and hypotaxis, on the other.
But as I try to get a better handle on parataxis in anticipation of Thursday’s
defense, I’m starting to think parataxis is more than two-timing. Patsy Cline: "Your
cheating heart will make you weep." Heh, weep. Only I’m the one in
a fix because of parataxis’s scandal and infidelity.
Thus far, I’m finding a couple of more or less common distinctions, one
grammatical, in which parataxis is positioned as a dance partner with
syntaxis, and one rhetorical, in which parataxis is paired with
hypotaxis. The tabloids will be all over this.
Tags and Metadata
⏳ Approximate reading time: 2 mins
On Monday Dave Sifry of Technorati posted
Happy Taggiversary,
an entry marking the second anniversary of Technorati tags. In it he
announced the launch of tag pages, a
kind of 10×10 of semantic tags
assigned to various blog entries around the web for this hour. Instead of
10×10’s keyword/picture relay, we get a cloud of the tags themselves.
I’m interested in the response to Sifry offered by Matthew Hurst at
Data Mining. Hurst contends that tags, whether assigned by authors or by
third-parties, constitute object data rather than metadata. Because search
engines easily conflate the semantic content of tags for the semantic content of
a blog entry itself, tags are more appropriately identified as object data.
Hurst differentiates textual objects from non-textual objects; for the latter,
semantic tags are less likely to be confused with the object itself, as with an
image, for example.
Syverson, Wealth of Reality
⏳ Approximate reading time: 4 mins
Syverson,
Margaret. The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Composition. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois Press, 1999.
North, The Making of Knowledge in Composition
⏳ Approximate reading time: 6 mins
North,
Stephen M. The Making of Knowledge in Composition. Upper Montclair,
N.J.: Boynton/Cook, 1987.
Kittler, Discourse Networks
⏳ Approximate reading time: 5 mins
Kittler,
Friedrich. Discourse Networks, 1800/1900. Trans. Michael Metteer.
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford UP, 1990.
Fuller, Media Ecologies
⏳ Approximate reading time: 5 mins
Fuller,
Matthew. Media Ecologies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.