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International Women's Day: Suffrage and Political Rights

gender

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 8, 2013 - 8:03am

Here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/interactive/2013/mar/08/interna...
...a map of suffrage and other political landmarks for women.
"How have women's political rights changed around the globe to get to this International Women's Day? This interactive map by Lustlab's Lizzie Malcolm in Amsterdam shows the long history of the fight for suffrage and political representation around the globe. Click and drag on the year slider to see the changing face of women's political representation over the years"

Bruno Latour Lectures

actor-network theory

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 5, 2013 - 6:57pm

Bruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures 1-6
http://knowledge-ecology.com/2013/03/05/bruno-latours-gifford-lectures-1-6/

DRM Chair

intellectual property

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 5, 2013 - 5:36pm

See: http://vimeo.com/60475086
What if digital intellectual property rules applied to material objects?

A First-generation College Education and Its Discontents

Submitted by cvcedillo on March 4, 2013 - 1:03pm

"When I got my M.A., I received congratulations. I also received an exhortation that it was time to get a job and stop this school foolishness, which was clearly a way to avoid a job. When I pulled out my National Council of Teachers of English card, my grandfather's first question was whether that meant I was union."

On Networked Humanities

conference

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 4, 2013 - 10:40am

Reflecting on the Networked Humanities Conference at UK
From http://joetorok.wordpress.com/

Some impressions, notes, and takeaways from the high throttle, enlightening Networked Humanities conference hosted by Jeff Rice and Jenny Rice at the University of Kentucky...

Also: an abridged reading list below that I stitched together from conference presentations and conversations.

From “Networked Humanities Scholarship, or the Life of Kairos,” Cheryl Ball, Illinois State University and Douglas Eyman, George Mason University

Peer Review: Should you Google the title of a work you are reviewing?

peer review

Submitted by syntaxfactory on February 27, 2013 - 8:33am

(This is a tough one. By googling a piece I was reviewing, I learned that a substantial hunk was already printed in another journal. That seems worthwhile. On the other hand, maybe that's the editor's job, not the reviewer's job. This blog post uses some hyperbole but it asks a basic question about what 'blnd' review is in the age of Google.)

From NewAPPS:
http://www.newappsblog.com/2013/02/self-restraint-in-refereeing.html

Self-restraint in refereeing
by Helen De Cruz
Dear author,

Susan Miller

obituaries

Submitted by syntaxfactory on February 23, 2013 - 9:55pm

I'm shocked and saddened to bring you the news that Susan Miller, of the University of Utah, has passed away of cancer. Susan was a member of CCCC for over 40 years and contributed in immeasurable ways to the profession through her mentoring of students, her award-winning books and dozens of articles and book chapters, and many leadership roles. I for one will sorely miss her soft-spoken but so, so insightful eloquence. I'm sure that colleagues at Utah will send us more about this sad news.

Chris

--
Chris M. Anson
University Distinguished Professor

2012 Survey of MA Programs

the profession

Submitted by syntaxfactory on February 20, 2013 - 1:17pm

On behalf of the Master's Degree Consortium of Writing Studies Specialists, I am writing to announce that the initial report on the 2012 Survey of Programs is available for download at the consortium web site: http://www.mdcwss.com/2013/02/report-on-the-2012-survey-of-programs/. Please consider sharing this announcement or the report itself with others who you think should know about it. The report offers a concise overview of the 27-question survey completed by 82 programs affiliated with the consortium from March-August 2012.

Uptalk, Gender and Jeopardy

Submitted by syntaxfactory on February 20, 2013 - 5:48am

Just yesterday, I posted about Jeopardy and my family. Below, a discussion of Jeopardy and gender and "uptalk," a phenomenon I learned about in sociolinguistics class.

See: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/02/19/men-and-women-use-uptalk...

On Class Size

composition pedagogy

Submitted by syntaxfactory on February 19, 2013 - 7:25pm

WEB LINKS: Recommended Class Sizes (CCCC, ADE, AWP)

Generally, our field’s professional organizations recommend a size of 15-20 students per first-year composition class, and no more than 15 per basic/developmental class. Here are definitive statements and reports about this issue. A surprising number of colleges and universities actually manage to keep their numbers at or close to these recommendations, despite larger composition classes in many schools. See below:

“ADE Guidelines for Class Size and Workload...”:
www.ade.org/policy/index.htm