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Open source software on campus: how faculty can encourage IT staff to install and support. Answering questions from Clancy Ratliff.

Composition Forum 20 has been published.

Recent trip #1: to San Francisco for CCCC 2009. I booked a quick trip: Wed PM to Sat noon. On the one hand, I wish I’d stayed Saturday night. On the other, I didn’t want to be away from the girls any longer than I had to, and with more travel coming up, it was [...]

CCCC Open Source SIG meets at CCCC 2009. We decide to merge with the IP caucus, and plan our agenda for the next year.

I recently finished teaching our graduate program’s sole required course, ENG 500, formerly “Introduction to Graduate Studies,” now “Theory and the Practice of English Studies.” Most of us remember this kind of course. Its purpose: get students into the habit of doing English studies, providing an introduction to research methodologies, common issues, and graduate-level work in [...]

Starting to think about WebCT accessibility, or lack thereof, I discovered its “safeassign” plagiarism detection has come to WIU.

Time to join the fun. Since others have already written some interesting things, I’ll keep this short.
First, on context, to pick up on Alex’s comments about Cortland, what if we shift the ground from research universities to institutions where teaching is the primary mission? While I don’t want to tune my response by saying “That’s [...]

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

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

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