Category: Academic Life
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Reflections on the State of Writing Instruction
Over at Writers Who Care, Kristen Turner and I have shared some thoughts from our recent experience at Writing Research Across Borders III: Arthur Applebee, a leading scholar in the field of writing instruction, shared some new research during his keynote at the Writing Research Across Borders III conference last week in Paris. Applebee and his colleagues…
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WRAB III Wrap Up
This has been both a personally and professionally fulfilling week for me, as I was able to travel with colleagues from the US to participate in the Writing Research Across Borders III conference in Paris. Along with the sightseeing, which has been wonderful, the general spirit of inquiry and collegiality from around the world has…
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WRAB III: Writing As Multimodal Text Production
Here are slides from my talk, “Writing as Multimodal Text Production.” [iframe]<iframe src=”https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_z9oiSEUmE_-aRtI1QEozNNbY5kmiAVxcCNJnUjYa6Y/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ frameborder=”0″ width=”960″ height=”569″ allowfullscreen=”true” mozallowfullscreen=”true” webkitallowfullscreen=”true”></iframe>[/iframe] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Notes from Arthur Applebee’s WRAB Keynote
This morning, WRAB III kicked off with conference organizers greeted 1140 colleagues from around the world, followed by a keynote from Arthur Applebee, an academic hero for those of us interested in writing research. Many of his ideas from this talk are also shared in his recent book, Writing Instruction That Works, looking at 20 schools, both in…
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Fourth Post from SDRC “Hack and Yack” Series
This post was originally published on the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative blog on January 23, 2014. Over the past two weeks, we explored the big ideas behind digital reading and ebooks, and have looked at basic ebooks and enhanced ebooks. Today, we wrap up the series by thinking about the possibilities afforded by interactive ebooks.…
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Third Post from SDRC “Hack and Yack” Series
This post was originally published on the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative blog on January 21, 2014. Our post last week looked up an example of a basic ebook, one that is essentially a PDF document or ePub style and has features such as search and annotation, adjustments for readability, and the ability to access some…
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Second Post from SDRC “Hack and Yack” Series
This post was originally published on the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative blog on January 17, 2014. As mentioned in our introduction to this series of blog posts, we are heading into the world of e-reading for the next few days, considering what it might mean for us as digital writers and rhetors. Today, I want…
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First Post from SDRC “Hack and Yack” Series
For the next two weeks, I will be blogging over at the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative’s blog for their “Hack and Yack” series (and cross posting here). This is my first entry that went live on January 14, 2014. By now — in fact, right now — there is a very good chance that you…
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Literacy Research Association Webinar
This afternoon at 2:00 PM EST, I will be participating in the Literacy Research Association’s webinar series. Today’s topic is Writing and Multimodality and I am looking forward to the conversation. Here are the slides and handout that I will be sharing: Hicks LRA Webinar Slides (PDF) Hicks and Perrin – Writing Dimensions Chart (PDF) Please join in…
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Power, Powerless, and Powerlessness
As 2013 comes to a close, I wasn’t quite sure that I would have time to get one more blog post out . As it happens, the mid-Michigan area where I live was slammed with an ice storm a week ago and my family just recently (that is, six hours ago) moved from being in…