Category Archives: 106blog

Week One, Thursday

Posted on August 23, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

1. Collect writing samples 2. Intro lecture: what is rhetoric? hard to define, persuasion more than that, rhetoric is social glue– social conception of knowledge and knowledge exchange art of negotiating language in the act of negotiation Kenneth Burke: resolving … Continue reading →

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106: Week One

Posted on August 22, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

If you are looking for baby photos, then you should scroll down to the previous post. If you are looking to pass English 106, then you should scroll down to the baby photos, sufficiently oooh and aaah, and then scoll … Continue reading →

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Rapid Fire Thoughts

Posted on August 15, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I’m sitting in one of Purdue’s undergrad computer labs to work on my teaching portfolio (the draft of which is below–I’m going to play around with that Dali-esque scheme). The reason I’m using a gen-pop lab: the new Adobe Creative … Continue reading →

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Content v. Copy

Posted on August 13, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Here’s one of the problems that comes with creating a syllabus. You carefully arrange each reading and budget out your (and your students’) time. Then, checking up on your RSS feeds, you come across an article far better than most … Continue reading →

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Victory-is-Mine: New Website

Posted on July 29, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I’ve finished the draft for my fyc course this fall. I’m particularly pleased with the sliding image header technique I “invented” for this site–tutorial coming soon. I still have some touch ups (applying a min-width to the content area, thinking … Continue reading →

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Standards Compliant URLs

Posted on July 27, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I haven’t put up a technology-oriented post in awhile, but, then again, I haven’t been doing much web design this summer. This week I’ve started working on my course website for the fall, and thought I might share a cool, … Continue reading →

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Smashing Magazine and Networked Research

Posted on May 28, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

As we start planning out our Blogging as Composition syllabus (see also me and Wishydig and Mrxk), I’ve been thinking about what kind of research assignment we could have students work on. The obvious project to me is a two-phase … Continue reading →

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Introductory Blogging… I mean Composition

Posted on May 10, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

This fall a few colleagues and fellow bloggers have decided to network our introductory composition classes (at least four classes). The idea is to structure our course around blogging, having our students write often for “real” audiences, on a specialized … Continue reading →

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