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From the Mirror: May 2013

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Musings on reflection, writing, research, teaching, and life. Thursday, May 30, 2013. Reflecting on the Sting of Rejection. The other possibility is that no matter how well I express these ideas the reader will reject or dismiss them. Reflection is no longer trendy, and what I have to say is neither significant or that new. So what do I learn from this feedback? On a draft already written. The following critique by this reviewer is much more insightful: "I was most interested to see where the essay would...

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The Lord of Rhetoric: Airspace Rebooted

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The Lord of Rhetoric. A CACHE OF OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE NON-FINITE NATURE OF WEB 3.14. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. The dangerous ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano brought European air traffic to a halt. For a while, the skies over the north of Europe were almost empty of airplanes. Then, the ash went away and the beautiful mayhem resumed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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The Lord of Rhetoric: January 2010

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The Lord of Rhetoric. A CACHE OF OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE NON-FINITE NATURE OF WEB 3.14. Wednesday, January 6, 2010. The Third and The Seventh. Some of the most beautiful images set to music I have ever seen. I'm going to use this in my ENG 103 class to talk about multimodal composition, visual rhetoric, and pathos. It's 12 minutes long, but trust me, after watching it you will be relaxed and in awe. Kubrick would be proud (watch it in fullscreen). The Third and The Seventh. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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From the Mirror: December 2011

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Musings on reflection, writing, research, teaching, and life. Friday, December 30, 2011. Ack I don't much like that one either. So I am presently stuck thinking of a better term. Constructionist Reflection? What's the difference between construct -ivist and -ionist? I must think more. And keep pounding the rock. I'd like to have a draft of this essay done before we return to the semester. Sunday, December 4, 2011. Dreaming of My Digital Writing Workshop. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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From the Mirror: January 2013

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Musings on reflection, writing, research, teaching, and life. Sunday, January 6, 2013. How is it that I am on vacation, and I don't seem to have enough time? No stacks of papers to grade. No class announcements or essay cycle assignment sheets to put together. Yet no time. Time, clearly, is relative. The foundation for revision, as I articulated for my students this semester, is rethinking. And Bryon Hawk's Counter-History of Composition. My reading has been focused on deepening the "So What? So the big ...

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From the Mirror: March 2014

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Musings on reflection, writing, research, teaching, and life. Friday, March 7, 2014. Writing is always more precise and less precise than our thoughts: that is why our writing pieces glow with being and beckon with the promise of becoming. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Speculum del.icio.us. I'm a teacher who thinks that writing matters, a lot. View my complete profile. Writing workshop. peter elbow.

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From the Mirror: June 2011

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Musings on reflection, writing, research, teaching, and life. Thursday, June 2, 2011. Picturing Reflection and Dewey's Double-movement of Reflection. Dewey and the Double-Movement of Reflection. And idea—to the particular facts” (79). The “double movement to. A meaning” constitutes the fundamental dynamic of reflection (80). Of a binding principle; the deductive toward its testing. Pending examination and inquiry, there is true judgment. We stop and think, we de-fer. Conclusions in order to in-fer.

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From the Mirror: The Future of Invention--of knowledge and learning

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Musings on reflection, writing, research, teaching, and life. Monday, July 29, 2013. The Future of Invention- of knowledge and learning. Learning is certainly a kind of "invention" or discovery, and Muckelbauer delves deeply into this topic in his chapter 5 "Itineration: What is a Sophist? Copies= true resemblences, products of Copies. Resemblance-effects= products of Simulacra-Phantasms. Simulacra appear proportional to the Model from the outside, but are not internally proportionate. As I wrote las...

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From the Mirror: August 2011

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Musings on reflection, writing, research, teaching, and life. Sunday, August 14, 2011. Reassessing the "Proofreading Trap": ESL Tutoring and Writing Instruction. Myers trashes Cogie's four strategies useful for tutors to work with ESL students: learner's dictionaries, minimal marking, error logs, and self-editing checklists. Instead, she closes her article (and illustrates it too) with her recommendations:. A more relaxed attitude toward error. An appreciation of second language acquisition processes.