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 …

Second paper down. One more to go before I finish up with some studies and then final exams.
This paper was for ENGL 5369, Discourse and Technology: Theories of Technology course.
Title: “Illuminating the ‘Mundane’ of Basic Writers through Micro-Blogging”
You can check out abstract, Works Cited, and the full course paper @ …

It is finished. And it is attached below as a PDF file.

Blog Usage’s Effect on the Writing Classroom: An Annotated Bibliography [PDF]

And here’s the purty little Wordle of my AB.

Snapshot taken from Wordle.
Under the Running Biblio, I have a Works Cited of all sources used for the AB.
In finishing this …

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 …