2/11 class

I graded the first week’s blogs in Webcampus (out of 10 points). Remember, I am looking to see familiarity and engagement with the readings. You can reflect personally, but you must engage the readings (e.g., use specific examples, quotations, etc. from text). A main goal is to convince me you did the reading. I was lenient this first week since my expectations weren’t really known (you are being disciplined, in the Foucauldian sense, can you feel it?)

I thought I should try to turn the class blog into more of a blog…did you read my musings on the 2/4 class?

I compiled a partial list of blogs (see below)

Log into Webcampus for a list of questions on this week’s readings

I’ll be passing out handouts on research methods, too.

Rhet/Comp Blogs

• A question: What would you say is the typical profile of a rhet/comp blogger?
• An artifact: “Amy’s Rhetoric Blog” or this will be you… http://amysrhetoricblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-is-platos-gorgias-so-agreeable.html

Individual blogs

• Clay Spinuzzi, associate professor of rhetoric at University of Texas at Austin. http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/
• Jeff Rice, English professor at University of Missouri-Columbia and Director of the Composition Program, http://www.ydog.net/
• Johndan Johnson-Eilola, professor of communication and media, Clarkson University http://people.clarkson.edu/~johndan/workspace/
• Steve Krause, professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University http://stevendkrause.com/
• Paul Kei Matsuda Professor of English at Arizona State University, http://www.public.asu.edu/~pmatsuda/blog.html
• Charlie Lowe, assistant professor, Department of Writing Grand Valley State University http://cyberdash.com/
• Krista Kennedy, a Rhetoric Ph.D. Candidate in the University of Minnesota Department of Writing Studies http://slimcoincidence.com/blog/
• Jill Walker Rettberg, associate professor at the University of Bergen, http://jilltxt.net/

Community Blogs

• Kairos News “A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy” http://kairosnews.org/
• KairosNews Blogroll: http://kairosnews.org/weblogs-by-teachers-and-scholars-in-composition-rhetoric-and-literature
• Council of Writing Program Administrators http://www.wpacouncil.org/
• Rhet/comp.com blogroll http://rhetcomp.com/ (click on “blogs”)