Archive for the 'Composition' Category

Graduate work

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

News about our graduate program: new curriculum, colloquium, 500

CCCC 2008

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

CCCC 2008 activities: our panel about journals on the web; seafood; more

Literacies shmiteracies

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

A recent NCTE position statement “Toward A Definition of 21st-Century Literacies” fails to measure up.

Speedschooling

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Last week I met with a very bright student who had transferred to Western from Illinois. She has enrolled in our teacher education program and is thinking about graduate school, so I explained some of the patterns in English studies which many students don’t know (where you can teach with various degrees, etc). I’m always [...]

CCCC, two runs

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

A bit about CCCC, and two runs.

In today’s society

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

A good’un

IM and language

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Naomi Baron slides into “IM kills language” trope in CACM article