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Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic MLA 2019 RCWS Literacy Studies Session January 5 at 10:15am in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for the RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored panel at MLA 2019, Saturday, January 5, 10:15-11:30 am, Michigan 1AB (Hyatt Regency). Our featured presenations are:
- Textbooks Matter: Privileged Portraits of Schooling in Indian Textbooks, Usree Bhattacharya (U of Georgia) [#7605]
- The Case of Dan, Longitudinally: Transaction as…
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bonnie lenore kyburz started the topic CFP: Women & Language (via Leland G. Spencer, Editor) in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Noemi Marin deposited Rhetorical Crossings of 1989: Communist Space, Arguments by Definition, and Discourse of National Identity Twenty-Five Years Later in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe Romanian political scene at the end of 1989 calls for a critical rhetorical perspective to understand how totalitarian politics clash with revolutionary changes and how communist space, so ambitiously crafted to cover an entire country’s public sphere, influences, if at all, a free(d) discourse on national unity. Examining official discourse o…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited Questions and answers on “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise” in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoPublished by Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, 28 March 2018. A Q&A about the essay “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise,” published in Configurations 26.1 (2018): 47–72, DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0002.
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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Polish Culture in Lesson 0 in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCulture and traditions constitute the essential elements in the process of Polish language education. The textbook Hurra po polsku. Podręcznik studenta by Małgorzata Małolepsza & Aneta Szymkiewicz in Lesson 0 introduces briefly Polish phonetic system and greeting expressions without offering any follow up exercises in the Hurra po polsku. Ze…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Literacy Studies Forum CFPs for MLA 2019 – Please share! in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWe are pleased to share the CFP for our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored sessions. Please share with colleagues who may be interested in submitting a proposal for either session.
RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored session:
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Dont’ Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoRCWS Literacy Studies Sponsored Sessions:
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy Studies
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1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska,… -
Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Don't Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoRCWS Literacy Studies Sessions:
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy StudiesPresentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska, Anchorage) [#4701]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Welcome to Mya Poe! in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe RCWS Literacy Studies Forum is very pleased to welcome Mya Poe as our newly elected forum executive committee member!
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and…[Read more] - Load More
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