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]]> 2005-11-04T15:29:45-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_11.html#003260 Documentaries online as a site of analysis for examples of web-based argument – primary research. Invention – how can this be mapped to design theory? Should it be mapped? What are the unexplainable moments in the design process? What about... Blather mfrascie 2005-11-04T15:29:45-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_11.html#003255 In a subtle and non-threatening way, D has goaded me back into blogging. The possibility of being de-listed is too painful to imagine. He’s right, of course. While I never considered my blog dead, there was a nagging notion in... Blather mfrascie 2005-11-03T16:31:23-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_07.html#002778 Crazy busy. Took a minute the other day to consider one of summer's simple pleasures. Freezy pops. I love freezy pops. They're exactly the same as they were when I was a kid. A simple concept. A simple treat. A... Blather mfrascie 2005-07-05T09:53:48-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002728 Turned in my draft essay/article yesterday. We'll workshop it next Monday. It really got me thinking about theory -- about doing theory. A few months back I read Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post Coloniality by Sara Ahmed. Through Ahmed's... mfrascie 2005-06-24T15:15:54-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002686 When I read Watts, Urban, et al, I was struck by a sense of scale that they all seemed to struggle with. Clustering, critical mass, socialization, enculturation—all efforts make some sense of the scale of place. Watts makes particular mention... Blather mfrascie 2005-06-16T10:27:52-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002681 Looking more at the features of the genre of academic writing. In 760, we’re continuing to look at the features of the genre of academic writing. Yesterday Derek asked, “Are socially constructed mental models the same as or different from... mfrascie 2005-06-14T12:17:28-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002674 We took up Berkenkotter’s and Huckin’s well-known analysis of a graduate student’s (Nate aka John Ackerman) textual enculturation. In the study, the authors make note of “declarative” and “procedural” knowledge and appropriately cite Anderson’s research.... mfrascie 2005-06-13T08:58:15-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002660 Boy, now wouldn’t that make for a lot of writing? Actually, I read Vandenberg and started thinking about a silly ass comment I made at the end of class the other day. As we were wrapping up a discussion of... Tech Com mfrascie 2005-06-08T15:22:53-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002651 Aleshia mentioned something yesterday that got me thinking about yet another way to complicate the relativistic definition of genre (situational, cultural, and rhetorical). I asked when does a particular document (a user guide, for example) stop being a defined generically... mfrascie 2005-06-07T08:25:41-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002647 Some final random (maybe not so random) notes on Devitt and Prior: **** Genre is performance-based; pulling text out of a situation. Genre is what and how readers do. Genre is “always already existing.” Basically this saying that often we... mfrascie 2005-06-06T16:11:27-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002645 Man it’s tough to get one of these together on a weekend like this. Here’s my best effort. I chose Devitt simply because I liked the more concise summary of what we’ve read and discussed to date, with the exception... mfrascie 2005-06-05T16:01:25-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002636 Leaving Bawarshi for the time being, so I’m going to draw a simple conclusion that I can take forward (attempting to synthesize Miller, Giddens and Bawarshi). All “things” (not just textual things) have structure. As such, all things have the... mfrascie 2005-06-03T08:11:21-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002627 In trying to organize some thoughts for today’s 760 session… Derek and Krista provided good resources on which to ground some of my reading. It’s a peripheral question, but as I worked through Bawarshi (for a second time); I kept... mfrascie 2005-06-02T07:58:27-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_05.html#002616 It’s taken me a while to get around to writing about a weekend camping trip I took with Sam. We went up to Highland Forest with his Boy Scouts troop and some other troops from around CNY. Maybe 200 kids... Blather mfrascie 2005-05-31T09:41:46-05:00 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_05.html#002604 Oh the mess I create in my own head when it comes to things Rhet. My boss says I tend to over-simplify. If there ever was a time, it was in tonight's class. We've read Miller, Bahktin, and Giddens (I... mfrascie 2005-05-26T21:23:03-05:00