I really appreciate having the opportunity to share my work, and I was able to do that last Thursday thanks to the Dissertation Fellows Conference: those of us given a dissertation fellowship for the 08-09 school year were required to provide a 20-25 page excerpt and then give a 15-20 minute talk based on the work we've... Continue Reading →
What
EXACTLY have I been doing with my time? I mean, really. I'm all up on current events thanks to Google Reader, but I do not have a chapter draft, which was supposed to go to Kate on April 1. Ack. I'm refusing to draft it, I think, because I already know I won't like the... Continue Reading →
For another chapter?
I ran across a term in an excerpt from Kenneth Burke ("The Five Master Terms," in Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Invention in Writing). . . From my notes: Panspermia= from “the ancients” “an original chaos in which all the seeds of all the universal possibilities lay in one vast confusion. Such a panspermia is the region... Continue Reading →
Hmm. . .
"unconscious cerebration": Phrase used to describe the views of a school of invention dubbed the "new romantics" by Richard Young in "Concepts of Art and the Teaching of Writing" (I'm reading the text in Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Invention, edited (not coincidentally) by Richard Young and Yameng Liu. I like it. Even though I know... Continue Reading →
Transcribing. . .
is finally finished! Crikey, it took forever for those 6 interviews. . .I know I could have sent them to a transcription service, but that's expensive and I figured I might as well listen to them all a few times over. Now what? The chapter itself looms darkly overhead, already a week overdue to my... Continue Reading →
The Substance of Style
is a series of essays (textual and video) by Matt Zoller Seitz that I ran across on the Moving Image Source, which critique and chronicle influences on Wes Anderson's film-making. The text is divided into 5 sections; I highly recommend watching the video essay rather than focusing only on the written text (which Seitz reads... Continue Reading →
A book
I really need to read this: First We Read, then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process by Robert D. Richardson. Unfortunately, Miami doesn't have a copy yet (it came out in Feb.) and there appears to be one copy on Ohiolink that is not yet available because it's not in the library's system just... Continue Reading →
And just cause
Whenever I think about the wedding, I am always reminded of one of my favorite movies. . .and ignore the ending of that first clip. . .
What am I doing now?
Only what I've been putting up for a couple of weeks now. . .transcribing student interviews. I know I could send them out to be transcribed, but there are weird encryption issues thanks to the kind of DVR I used. . .and it's good practice. So I'm transcribing. And I'm really not good at it. At... Continue Reading →
4C’s presentation
Here's the proposal I submitted to Cs: Essaying (a) Place in Invention Studies This presentation identifies the topos of place as integral to theoretical discussions of invention and prewriting processes in order to reconsider the ways in which composition teachers discuss invention and prewriting strategies with students. Historically, invention and prewriting theorists such as Patricia... Continue Reading →
essaying the plains 