Rhetcomp.com Blog Poll
In a recent email to the Kairosnews weblogs listserv, Barclay Barrios writes: "I was asked to generate a list of 10-15 blogs to be listed at rhetcomp.com , and I am hoping all of you can help me...
View ArticleFresh Air's Nunberg on Blogs
Anybody else catch Geoff Nunberg's little bit of linguistic elitism at the end of tonight's Fresh Air (page has links to audio streaming via RealAudio or WMA) on NPR? I usually like Nunberg, a lot (his...
View ArticleCCCC and Access
The theme of the 2005 CCCC convention in San Francisco prominently features the word "Access". Those of us whose scholarship intersects with the Web know that the word "access" has many different...
View ArticleNYT on Online Plagiarism
The New York Times has posted an interesting article on online plagiarism and paper sellers. Writing as someone who's taken several spins through the onlinemills myself, wondering how much my students...
View ArticlePaul Graham on Essays
Via Slashdot: Paul Graham, computer programmer, author, and inventor of the Yahoo! Store, has written an essay on the current state of the essay. While I don't entirely agree with all of his points,...
View ArticleBuying a Paper via IM
As someone whose presentation at CCCC dealt with plagiarism issues, and who's read Jenny Edbauer's thoughts on plagiarism and works for hire with considerable interest, I thought the comment-storm...
View Article2005 Kairos Best Academic Weblog
Congratulations to Collin Brooke for winning the Kairos Best Academic Weblog award. Jenny Edbauer, Traci Gardner, and I were unanimous in our opinion that, out of all the nominees, Collin's weblog best...
View ArticlePublishing Land Mines
People here have already discussed the troubling nature of Elsevier's attitude towards intellectual property concerns. (Elsevier, as many here know, is the publisher of the journal Computers and...
View ArticleCFP: Conference on Writing, Teaching, and Technology
The UMass Amherst English Department is co-sponsoring a K-college Conference on Writing, Teaching, and Technology on April 7 and 8, 2006. From the Call for Proposals:The rapid development of computer...
View ArticleReminder: Best Weblog Award
Just a reminder: the cutoff date for nominations for the 2005-2006 John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award is tomorrow. Anyone and everyone can nominate a weblog for the award, and the winner will be...
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