Category Archives: digital-citizenship

Thinking about First Posts and Abouts

Posted on January 20, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today my students will be setting up there blogs. I wanted to think about first posts and/or about pages. These are important to establish the tone, feel, and personality of a blog. Here’s some source material: mxrk raw thought dooce … Continue reading →

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Productive Mess Hits the Airwaves

Posted on January 16, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Here’s some shameless self-promotion: the new issue of Kairos includes my article with Nathaniel Rivers and Ryan Weber “Productive Mess: First-Year Composition Takes the University’s Agonism Online.” The article has two main arguments: first, it discusses how to better integrate … Continue reading →

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Jack McCoy, Ciceronian Rhetoric, and the art of Pathetic Conclusions

Posted on January 14, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Tomorrow I’m planning a quick, introductory lecture on Ciceronian argument. As such, I’ll be referring to the six-part structure extracted from the Catiline Orations and discussed at length in De Inventione. In brief: Exordium [prepares the hearer… this can be … Continue reading →

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Jim Corder as an Ethic for Blogging

Posted on January 8, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today I presented Jim Corder’s “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love” to my expository writing class. I believe Corder’s propositions for “writing with love” serve as particularly apt principles for approaching digital writing. Corder pushes for five core values: The … Continue reading →

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Expository Writing as Digital Citizenship

Posted on January 6, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Its a new semester, and I am teaching two sections of upper-division expository writing. I am excited to return to a previous approach: blogging as composition. Last time I tried this with freshman we and we were quite pleased with … Continue reading →

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