I have submitted my behemoth of a paper, “Where We Stand: On Being Mommy Bloggers of Color” to my professor. Am I happy with it? Actually, I think I am. There’s some good material there and in revisions, it will get better. Because I love Wordles so much, I of course …

Which new media theorist, which you have read (either avidly and/or recently) would you want to read further? What ideas, concepts, books, and articles interest you most and why?
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Hard questions. There have been many theorists I have read that deal with hypertext, identity on the Internet, narrative in cyberspace, virtual ...

Chapter 2 of Baehr and Schaller’s Writing for the Internet: A Guide to Real Communication in Virtual Space reads like a who’s who of theories, particularly from mass communication:

Critical Theory – seeks change in the dominant social order and notes how communication is controlled by the in-power group and used to exert …

Part of what makes the Internet, particularly Web 2.0 (3.0, and beyond) so interesting is the ability for so many people to be creators of content. Even commenters on blogs and on news site can get their 15-minutes of fame by being regular responders.
Enter the new Yahoo! News blog: The …

Well, knocked out another project today: the micro-study for ENGL 5363: Research Methods in Technical Communication and Composition.
The micro-study is titled “What Students Can Learn about Writing in the Workplace”; it is available [here].
And yet again, to feed my addiction, here is the wordle.

Image created by Wordle.

NO WORDS can describe how I feel right now. Despite the fact that I have two studies to write and three finals to take within the next five days, I am done writing major papers.
My 20th Century Rhetoric paper, “The Power of the Spirit: Rhetorical Moves of Maria W. Stewart” …

One day, I want my voice (within academic discourse) to be as good as Johnson’s. Was reading a plethora of articles and books over the last four or five days and began to wonder where “voice” was within academic writing, and then I sat and began to read Johnson again …

There is so much that can be said about these chapters.
Johnson’s discussion on “dumbing down” is an interesting one, and it instantly made me think about composition courses. Out of frustration or because some institutions actually think it’s for the students’ benefit, some institutions seem to “dumb down” composition courses, …

I dig Johnson. For many reasons, but specifically because he writes in a way that is easy for me to understand for…and because he’s so audience-centered in his approach.
In the preface of Johnson’s work, we get a brief overview of other fields’ contributions to the question Johnson initially poses: What …