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January 30, 2005
possible project topics, by tomorrow...
for the record, becky is the one who kept the only coherent list we've made of the things i keep saying i'm interested in. this is like a test. a mean, nasty, horrible-terrible TEST.
59 buzz words, in rainbow order: rhetorical criticism and/or analysis, "students" as scholarly constructs, narrative & lore as scholarly forms, student writing, literacies, languages, & global englishes, style & written standards, grammar & syntax, adaptability, genre as purpose leading to form, authorial choice & the writer's toolbox, basic writing, textbooks and handbooks, syllabi & assignment sheets, collaboration, blogging, storytelling, personal essays & creative nonfiction...
if i had to pick tomorrow, something i should know more about from a historical perspective: collaborative writing & initiatives for/against it in the schools as well as theory about it (blech). intersections btw. that & ideas about narrative & interpretation--all that fun hayden white stuff--because i'd imagine most of the latter is tied firmly to conceptions of the individual mind creating--the lone hero in the void, as it were--that i totally don't buy into.
if i had to pick the day after, it might be something else.
Posted by ttobryan at January 30, 2005 06:34 PM
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History of collaborative writing, with a focus on the issue of individual invention. Fine. In the bibliography online, be sure to select Day & Eodice; Lefevre. Also necessary: Lunsford, Andrea A., and Lisa Ede. Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990. And Gere, Anne Ruggles. Writing Groups: History, Theory, and Implications. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. And Bruffee, Kenneth A. "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind.'" College English 46.7 (November 1984): 635-52. (I'm emailing Bruffee, Lunsford, & Gere bibliographies to you.) If you can get your hands on the Hale & Wyche-Smith videos, that would be wizard.
Instead of doing an entire chronology, you might choose just the 1980s, which were crucial in comp studies.
Will you do some primary-source work with SU or VPI archives?
Posted by: senioritis at February 6, 2005 04:20 PM
by archives i assume you mean not my stuff/stuff my students have done but stuff dig-out-able from the library (do we have student work from the 80s, or is that too old to still have in the building but too recent to have been kept as curiosities?)?
focus on how individual invention intersects. the stuff itself bothers me--i know i have to know a reasonable amount to do an intersection, but i really want that focus to be not on those theories themselves (or as compared to) but more on what impact those theories have on what i'm actually looking at.
and i can NOT believe you just used the word "wizard" as a synonym for "cool." i do that. i don't know anyone else on earth who does that. i also know where i got it from--do you?
thanks for doing a chunk of my work for me! (b/c yes, this is what i was hoping to aim for.) becky is teh roxxor!
Posted by: tyratae at February 6, 2005 06:56 PM
Yep, that's what I mean by "archives." Your students' work doesn't constitute historical archives. Yet. Dig-outables from the library; from Nance Hahn; from URI; etc. I'd suggest a visit to University archives; an email to Eileen, whose 611 classes in the past have done some work in those archives; and to Nance Hahn, who's sitting on a huge pile of SUWP historical stuff that she shares w/ researchers.
Posted by: senioritis at February 6, 2005 07:21 PM