{"id":10106,"date":"2025-06-20T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=10106"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:39:20","slug":"collectanea-25-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/20\/collectanea-25-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Collectanea 25.25 Microthemes-Slash-Felt"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 5<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>\n

Week of June 16, 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microthemes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“One new approach that I incorporated was the use of microthemes. A microtheme is defined as ‘an essay so short that it can be typed on a single five-by-eight inch note card.’ There are four types of microtheme that I have used successfully. These are (1) summary writing, (2) supporting a thesis, (3) generating a thesis from provided data and (4) quandary posing. Each can be used to have students focus on a small segment of material and write short responses” (33).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Janet D. Hartman. (1989). Writing to learn and communicate in a data structures course. Proceedings of the Twentieth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education<\/em>, 32\u201336. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/65293.71191<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reference to Hartman’s work on microthemes appears in Chapter 5, “Writing to Learn,” from Bazerman et al.’s 2005 collection, Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum<\/a><\/em>. As I followed this farther, I stumbled upon Trish Roberts-Miller’s 2020 blog entry, “Teaching with Microthemes.<\/a>” Initially I’d been wondering about whether writing-to-learn bore even the smallest hints of drawing-to-learn, but so far I haven’t found anything connect them directly (over and above the “[blanking]-to-learn” phraseology). So, that’s it\u2013microthemes widened to an etcetera, miniatures, the dinky heap of speck genres we have named as a way to patch wee scale pedagogical interactions and large scale genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Felt Sense<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 1. Think of it as a snowball.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

F. sheds. A lot. A LOT<\/em>\u2013a lot. And so, what might these wool heaps become? From a 2009 Maker page<\/a> and from elsewhere<\/a>, we’re lint-rolling for ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But that hair! It gets everywhere. I\u2019ve seen it floating around like snowdrifts under the couch, and of course it gets on every piece of clothing in the house! Grooming your dog is the best way to keep the hair from finding its way into your wardrobe permanently. The hair that you remove from the dog when you brush her can be put to crafty use! It can be felted, just like sheep\u2019s wool. Well, not exactly like wool, but close enough! Don\u2019t let the soft fibers go to waste. Use some pipe cleaners and a felting needle to create a replica of your pet, made from her fur!” \u2013Brookelynn Morris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Methods of Placing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Some methods of placing freshman writing before students are particularly interesting. Fifteen schools [out of 186 respondents] place themes on a bulletin board for student inspection. In nine schools, themes are returned and circulated in class for reading and comment. Three schools place themes which exemplify certain assignments on a reserve shelf in the library for use by students in the course. One school devotes the entire May issue of its alumni bulletin to the publication of freshman composition work. The yearbook, a printed anthology of themes used as a text, and a local newspaper are all used as media for the presentation of freshman writing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, from the first CCC<\/em> article, Edith Wells’ report on a survey of 400 colleges and universities’ first-year writing publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Edith Wells. 1950. \u201cCollege Publications of Freshman Writing.\u201d College Composition and Communication<\/em> 1.1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Food Poisoning<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 2. “Easy Queasy.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stick Henge Update<\/h4>\n\n\n
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Writing this week about branching indices in the morning and then in the afternoons, when the skies cooperate, piling sticks to hengiform monument. Stick Henge has three perimetering arc segments; each amounts to a cradle held vertical by hammer-set wooden posts. Two sets of posts are 3.5 feet tall; the third is seven feet tall. The twiggy offshed from the two black cherry trees and the catalpa have been piled into the cradles, along with a few branches from the red oak, though that one is harder to cut and slower to sculpt with. I thought I might be able to get Stick Henge finished by solstice, but Thursday’s work session convinced me that even as it is well begun and more than half done, not unlike a book project, the finishing shall be a Zeno’s paradox considering there is a slower-more<\/em> to do and even after that another stick can always be placed atop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5ives<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Writing’s Microgenres<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Microthemes (Hartman, 1989)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Aphorisms (Haynes, 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Representative anecdotes (Rice, 2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Hundreds (Berlant & Stewart, 2019) (or nineties<\/em>, my preferred variation)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Crots (Weathers, 1980)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    What other microgenres can you think of? I am teaching two sections of ENGL3844: Writing and Digital Media this fall, and I think I might build the class around microgenres and digital circulation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Somewhat of a Virgule<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    “I have been hailed by a slash, called into these questions (How has the slash between rhet\/comp come to be and to mean? Will the slash between rhet\/comp persist?) by a virgule, a solidus, a dia\/critical mark (of sorts). It is not a task I take lightly, nor one that I find distasteful. I am somewhat of a virgule myself, poised on the cusp of a slightly disreputable figure. (I once bristled when an oh-so-proper official of the MLA requested that I remove a slash from the title of my already-accepted MLA conference presentation. Before the program went to print, you see. I said no. The slash was necessary, and it stayed. For once in my life, it was an either\/or decision.) Such it is with rhetoric\/composition\u2014both doomed and\/or fortunate to live with this aporetic virgule between them, listing like a slightly disfigured lightning bolt” (para. 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2014Cynthia Haynes. (2003). “Rhetoric\/Slash\/Composition.” Enculturation<\/em> 5.1. https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/enculturation\/5_1\/index51.html<\/a> #slash #virgule #punctuation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Serpents\/Jungle Fowl<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Unexpectedly, ill-advisedly, Betty briefly took an interest in doppelg\u00e4nger Hisstilla. The encounter was short-lived, peaceful. I am convinced there are at least two black racers canvassing Wonder Hollow, this younger, smaller one at the front (east), and an older, larger one at the back (west).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Figure 3. Betty, Hisstilla; Histilla, Betty. \ud83e\udef1\ud83c\udfff\u200d\ud83e\udef2\ud83c\udffd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    About Collectanea<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Collectanea<\/em> is a series I’m trying out in Summer 2025 at Earth Wide Moth. Each entry accumulates throughout the week and is formed by gathering quotations, links, drawings, and miscellany. The title of the entry notes the week and year (the fourth in this series from Week 25 of 2025, or the Week of June 16). I open a tab, add a little of this or that most days. Why? Years ago my habitude toward serial composition and, thus, toward blogging, favored lighter, less formal, and more varied fragments; gradually, social media began to reel in many of these short form entries, recasting them as posts dropped a Facebook or Instagram or Twitter (while it lasted), albeit with dwindling ripple effect into the ad-addled and algorithm-ambivalent streams. This<\/em> space, meanwhile, began to feel to me like it wanted more thoughtfully developed entries bearing the shape and length of what you might find on Medium or Substack. But, because I am drafting toward a book project most mornings, I don’t quite have reliable essayistic bandwidth for Earth Wide Moth this summer. Collectanea<\/em>, if it goes according to my small bites chicken scratch plan, will be a release valve for the piling up of too many tabs open, functioning as a shareable, intermittent (weekly?) repository for small pieces cut and pasted from stuff I am reading, and also as a scrapbook for illustrations. -DM<\/p>\n\n\n

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    The diverter pond’s liner experiment. #wonderhollow #rollcall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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