http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/ A Rhetoric and Composition Blog en-us 2005-02-06T13:24:31-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000014.html Finally finished a second draft of the essay that Jonathan and I writing for a new book on "Critical Issues in WPA." We're talking about queering WPA work, or how our experiences as queer WPAs has affected both our sense... Scholarship wpbanks 2005-02-06T13:24:31-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000013.html Who knows that today won't be a day to catch up on reading. As it turns out, I'm sick a dog and just lounging around the house trying to feel better. I've cancelled class and hope to do something besides... Campus wpbanks 2005-02-01T09:29:56-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000012.html Two recent reports tell us that the folks in the U.K. have finally found out what U.S. compositionits have been saying for at least three decades about grammar: it ain't all fill-in-the-blank easy-peasy stuff. I'm always amazed that we still... Pedagogy wpbanks 2005-01-26T12:14:40-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000011.html I'm beginning to think I'm getting good at avoiding work, or at least the scholarly work I enjoy so much. Despite the fact that Jonathan and I have a chapter due by March, that Michelle and I have a chapter... Scholarship wpbanks 2005-01-19T11:24:36-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000010.html I'm sure I'm not the only one to think this, but I'm constantly amazed by how much my emotional life and mood are a fuction of how class goes. Last Tuesday, I was completely pumped about my Children's Lit course... Class Notes wpbanks 2005-01-18T22:41:51-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000009.html Wow . . . those extroverts in my Children's Lit class are going to wear me out this semester. We've just finished class number two and I already notice how much energy I'm giving them. That might be why it... Children's Literature wpbanks 2005-01-13T16:49:18-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000008.html I just finished Jan Cooper’s “Queering the Contact Zone” (JAC 24.1 2004) and I have to say, I love this article! This is the best discussion of Pratt’s metaphor of the “contact zone” that I’ve read. Most people are familiar,... Queer Theory wpbanks 2005-01-10T08:38:14-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000007.html As I walked to my car yesterday, I felt that eerie music start up . . . they're back; they're definitely back. Good thing: adds order and structure to my day. Bad thing: I'm not fully prepped and I have... School wpbanks 2005-01-06T12:30:40-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000006.html Over the December holiday, I began (finally) to read Jonathan and Michelle's new "cluster" in JAC, oddly labeled (by the journal editors?) "Queer Theory." In their introductory article, "Queer Composition(s): Queer Theory in the Writing Classroom," Alexander and Gibson open... Comp Theory wpbanks 2005-01-04T13:27:36-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000005.html In the couple of months, I've gotten 4 copies of JAC, two copies of CCCC, and two copies of College English. The 4 JACs came from not having forwarded my new address to them and so my copies didn't arrive.... Comp Theory wpbanks 2005-01-03T18:23:47-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000004.html Here I go again. Last semester, I started to blog about comp-rhet stuff, to keep what I thought would be a useful running commentary of teaching my first comp-rhet graduate course and of what I was reading and thinking --... Blogs wpbanks 2005-01-03T14:11:26-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000003.html (Cross-posted here) I am disdainful of assigning work to my students that I am either unwilling or uninterested in doing myself. To that end, here’s my response to the readings for this past week. The more I read Ferry, Zebroski,... Class Notes wpbanks 2004-08-31T13:57:09-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000002.html O.k., so I made it through the first meeting of teaching my first graduate class ever. So much fun. Of course, I talked most of the time, highlighting a very brief history of composition in the U.S. and how research... Class Notes wpbanks 2004-08-27T16:34:32-05:00 http://english.ecu.edu/~wpbanks/mtblog/archives/000001.html Welcome to my first academic blog: Florilegia. From the Latin, florilegia ("little flowers") came to refer to commonplace several hundred years ago. For my purposes here, this blog will be both a collection of writings in my academic research discipline... Class Notes wpbanks 2004-07-24T15:48:38-05:00