So. . .

it's been awhile. I am a bad graduate student. Or maybe I'm typical. Either way, NO PROGRESS.  D'oh.  What have I been doing? Teaching last semester: ENG 225 was great, ENG 111 I'm not sure of. Hopefully, my thoughts and feelings about 225 will be reflected in the surveys that were distributed and some of... Continue Reading →

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Thought

for those of us interested in "new media" or "computers and writing," computers and composition," whatever you want to call it. . . From Frank D'Angelo's textbook Process and Thought in Composition (1977, 1980). The first line of the first section ("The Importance of Writing") of the first chapter ("Preliminary Considerations"): "Despite the claims of... Continue Reading →

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Today

Maybe it's pretentious to quote, but this statement from Susan Mitchell's "Notes Toward a History of Scaffolding" (as read in D'Agata's The Next American Essay) struck me this morning: "Do I live in order to write? Or do I write in order to live my life as I do?" (249) The question of a grad... Continue Reading →

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Once again. . .

I disappeared for a while. In the meantime, though, I did send my dissertation director 19 pages of a chapter, which she read and responded to in a conference with me yesterday. The chapter should end up being twice as long as it is now. . .I need to complicate the designations on which I... Continue Reading →

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I should be working on my second chapter

by now. But I'm not. . .I'm still overwhelmed by the joy of knowing as much as humanly possible about invention studies. Ack. On the bright side, I've been thinking of other ways to complicate my place as topos in invention studies discussion, thanks to the (old) review-essay I just finished--"A Critical Survey of Resources... Continue Reading →

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And again. . .

Lauer, Janice. "Toward a Metatheory of Heuristic Procedures." CCC 30.3 (Oct 1979): 268-269.   In this short article, Lauer puts forth 3 criteria for teachers to develop as a metatheory, which can be used by teachers to assess various invention heuristics they might teach their students. Lauer believes "[t]he chances of discovering insight increase through... Continue Reading →

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More reading notes for chapter 2

Vitanza, Victor. "A Tagmemic Heuristic for the Whole Composition." CCC 30.3 (Oct. 1979): 270-274.   Vitanza takes a new view of tagmemic heuristics and its usefulness to writers by applying it to paragraph-level structures.  Vitanza points out the importance of prewriting and invention strategies for writers, pointing out that "a serious writer spends a majority... Continue Reading →

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Oh yeah

I should be posting, right? Hmm. . .classes have begun. I'm teaching 111 and my 225 course around the theme of essays and invention. . .we'll see how things go. So far, so good on both accounts. I'm really starting to think about how blogs might be considered a new form of nonfiction literature, and... Continue Reading →

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Another day

and I finally finished Reclaiming the Imagination. After a month. Egads. Now, I pick up the pace and actually make progress on the dissertation. Actually, I must create my syllabus for ENG 225. I'm really excited about teaching this course--it's an advanced composition class and I get to design the course completely, but I'm a... Continue Reading →

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Avoidance issues. . .

I have them. Right now, I avoid writing my dissertation by reading all sorts of "valuable" sources that will, I hope, be useful to the writing process. Really, I could be writing more if I wasn't so caught up in perfection. . .I hope I'm not a person satisfied with simply getting to the dissertation... Continue Reading →

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