Back in October, I was asked as part of a class to register on Second Life so that I could participate in class time activities. Up until that moment, I had heard of SL but I had never participated on it. I belonged to virtual communities, such as MySpace, Facebook, …

Yesterday, I had my first annual review. What is an annual review? Well, essentially for me, I met with my advising committee for about an hour to discuss what I’ve done in the program thus far, what I plan to do within the next year, and to start thinking about …

When I started at Texas Tech in August ’09 (just last semester though it feels much longer than that), I had a set agenda of what I wanted to study. I had spent the last four or five years of my life teaching underprepared and underrepresented college students basic writing, and …

Every once in awhile, I plan to share some thoughts about this Ph.D. process.
The process is made a tad bit different in that as part of the fellowship this year I am required to take four classes. Most students take two or three. It’s been cumbersome, reading enough works just …

Well, I feel accomplished. I finally calmed the thoughts in my mind long enough to filter through a topic for 5369 Theories of Technology.
Two of my research interests are online environments and writing instruction, particularly instruction for basic/remedial writing, and I had an idea of what I wanted to write …

On the first day of school, I recited – many times – subjects that interest me as possible research topics. They include hypertext, social media, online communities, rhet. comp., writing instruction, and rhetoric of blogging.
While reading chapters one and three of Mary Sue MacNealy’s book Strategies for Empirical Research in …