Defense is tomorrow at 1pm. I actually...can't wait. Well I mean, I can - still gotta type up an opener and some ref notes. But I'm ready for this. Bring it.
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And now, for the record's sake, my paraphrasings of the questions I was sent as prep:
* What role do binaries play in my own answers (V/V, Acad/public, lit/oral, theo/prac, etc)? BC dude girl, you talked about them a lot.
* What's the value of imbalance? How would I reply to challenge that rhet/ped/etc are most "generative" when out of balance?
* Why "Contemporary Writing" as a term/label?
* Is print comp conservative by nature?
* What's up with Design as rhetorical?
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Showing posts with label academic life. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
It's become clear that this is the darkest timeline
From a GChat convo with Justin S. tonight:
Justin: Heh
I miss 9-5, no lie
You get shit done
And more importantly
Then you're done
me: yup
for this reason my holy grail is a strict personal schedule
so i could once again feel entitled to relax fully that was at established times
...that's the worst thing i have ever written
18 year old me is crying her face off right now
Justin: Heh
I miss 9-5, no lie
You get shit done
And more importantly
Then you're done
me: yup
for this reason my holy grail is a strict personal schedule
so i could once again feel entitled to relax fully that was at established times
...that's the worst thing i have ever written
18 year old me is crying her face off right now
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Things I've written in my prelims essays:
- On how abstraction facilitates comparisons between systems of discourse:
"It allows the comparing of apples to apples,
without the confusion of having to account for whether they came from pie or
sauce."
- On Anne Wysocki's reference to a major literacy studies scholar: "The shout-out to that legacy is particularly loud in her essay."
- Working title of my third section: "Modern Playout: The (Rhetorical) Voyage Home
- On examples of pure persuasion-based rhetorical acts: "Hipster culture is another example, based in persuading outsiders of the superiority of their fashions and tastes and disdaining those fashions and practices at which that persuasion becomes too successful." (Footnote to this sentence: "Q: How did the hipster burn his tongue? A: He drank his coffee before it was cool.")
- On Anne Wysocki's reference to a major literacy studies scholar: "The shout-out to that legacy is particularly loud in her essay."
- Working title of my third section: "Modern Playout: The (Rhetorical) Voyage Home
- On examples of pure persuasion-based rhetorical acts: "Hipster culture is another example, based in persuading outsiders of the superiority of their fashions and tastes and disdaining those fashions and practices at which that persuasion becomes too successful." (Footnote to this sentence: "Q: How did the hipster burn his tongue? A: He drank his coffee before it was cool.")
Monday, April 18, 2011
Thoughts while working
April 7th
- Wow my back hurts. Words cannot express how much I regret missing that Groupon for the massage place across from the Coop.
- A student today reaffirmed my recently slipping belief that the vast majority of students see anything below a B as an actively bad grade, which makes me feel better about my grading this year. I've been trying to toughen up my standards but I still sometimes worry I'm too lax - but if it is in fact true that most of them are upset at receiving a C (rather than indifferent with a splash of "darn," as I'd been starting to think), then my usual spread of a few in the 90-95 range, a few in the 72-78 range, and the rest in between puts my course about where I'd want it to be in terms of difficulty and standards. Not that every assignment every semester plays out in that range, of course. But the point is - I'm much less afraid now that I'm either too hard or too easy.
- I'm loving this weather. Is spring finally here??
April 18
- HOW did it take me this long to start using Zotero?? While I don't quite have the hang of how best to use it yet I can already tell it's going to save me a lot of time. That is, unless I become unreasonably anal about how everything is organized and waste hours arranging things for no reason aside from my own neurosis.
- My search for prelims readings just turned up an article entitled "Review Essay - The Internet."
- ...wow. So the Council of Writing Program Administrators just put me through literally 10 attempts at making up a password secure enough to be deemed worthy of defending my WPA conference submission form and the like - strictest most annoying standards for a password I've ever encountered in a civilian context. And then when I finally found one and finished registering, they promptly sent me an unencrypted email containing my new super-secure password plainly written out. Amazing.
- Wow my back hurts. Words cannot express how much I regret missing that Groupon for the massage place across from the Coop.
- A student today reaffirmed my recently slipping belief that the vast majority of students see anything below a B as an actively bad grade, which makes me feel better about my grading this year. I've been trying to toughen up my standards but I still sometimes worry I'm too lax - but if it is in fact true that most of them are upset at receiving a C (rather than indifferent with a splash of "darn," as I'd been starting to think), then my usual spread of a few in the 90-95 range, a few in the 72-78 range, and the rest in between puts my course about where I'd want it to be in terms of difficulty and standards. Not that every assignment every semester plays out in that range, of course. But the point is - I'm much less afraid now that I'm either too hard or too easy.
- I'm loving this weather. Is spring finally here??
April 18
- HOW did it take me this long to start using Zotero?? While I don't quite have the hang of how best to use it yet I can already tell it's going to save me a lot of time. That is, unless I become unreasonably anal about how everything is organized and waste hours arranging things for no reason aside from my own neurosis.
- My search for prelims readings just turned up an article entitled "Review Essay - The Internet."
- ...wow. So the Council of Writing Program Administrators just put me through literally 10 attempts at making up a password secure enough to be deemed worthy of defending my WPA conference submission form and the like - strictest most annoying standards for a password I've ever encountered in a civilian context. And then when I finally found one and finished registering, they promptly sent me an unencrypted email containing my new super-secure password plainly written out. Amazing.
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