http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/ "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users." ~ Edward Tufte Copyright 2007 Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:29:45 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_11.html#003260 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_11.html#003260 Blather Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:29:45 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_11.html#003255 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_11.html#003255 Blather Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:31:23 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_07.html#002778 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_07.html#002778 Blather Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:53:48 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002728 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002728 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:15:54 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002686 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002686 Blather Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:27:52 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002681 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002681 Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:17:28 -0500 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.... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002674 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002674 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:58:15 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002660 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002660 Tech Com Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:22:53 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002651 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002651 Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:25:41 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002647 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002647 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:11:27 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002645 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002645 Sun, 05 Jun 2005 16:01:25 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002636 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002636 Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:11:21 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002627 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_06.html#002627 Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:58:27 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_05.html#002616 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_05.html#002616 Blather Tue, 31 May 2005 09:41:46 -0500 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... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_05.html#002604 http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/mike/archives/2005_05.html#002604 Thu, 26 May 2005 21:23:03 -0500