Category Archives: Composition

My field (add “rhetoric” if you please).

Graduate work

Posted on May 27, 2008 by cbd

News about our graduate program: new curriculum, colloquium, 500 Continue reading →

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CCCC 2008

Posted on April 5, 2008 by cbd

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

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Literacies shmiteracies

Posted on March 3, 2008 by cbd

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

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Speedschooling

Posted on March 9, 2007 by cbd

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 … Continue reading →

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CCCC, two runs

Posted on March 26, 2006 by cbd

A bit about CCCC, and two runs. Continue reading →

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In today’s society

Posted on September 14, 2005 by cbd

A good’un Continue reading →

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IM and language

Posted on September 1, 2005 by cbd

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

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