Category Archives: Research

Ease, composition studies, and beyond.

Goodbye, Delicious?

Given the supposed shutdown of Delicious, and the problematic response from Yahoo, I’m checking out an alternative: Pinboard. Continue reading

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Studying transfer

With two other WIU faculty, I’m starting a research project targeting transfer of writing skills and knowledge, focusing on locally relevant populations. Continue reading

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ATTW: Usability Testing and the Templated Web

Good things about the CFP for ATTW 2011, and my proposal, “Usability Testing and the Templated Web.” Continue reading

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Good CFP moves by C&W 2011

Four good things about the CFP for Computers & Writing 2011 Continue reading

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Visualizing From A to [A]

Visualizing From A to [A] with a word cloud made from the index Continue reading

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Typology of English studies web sites

Building a typology of web sites in English studies, to help consider a research project to evaluate the overall quality of the field’s web presence. Continue reading

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More on slow numbers

The growing importance of community colleges may be affecting writing program enrollments nationwide. Adopting Agile development methods to writing programs, given structural changes in higher education and acceleration of the rate of change itself, provides a way to respond to these and other changes. Continue reading

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Tag A tag cloud

Tag cloud for From A to <A>, my edited collection from Minnesota Continue reading

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TCQ 19.1: Posthuman rhetorics & TC

My copy of TCQ 19.1 arrived the other day, and I got a chance to read it last night. It’s a special issue on “Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication”, edited by Byron Hawk and Andrew Mara. Good stuff: the articles … Continue reading

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