Digital Media & Rhet/Comp Associate Professor @ Miami University. rhetorlist.net & ccdigitalpress.org & Writing Workflows (UM Press, 2020). Opinions are my own.
Rhetoric & Writing colleagues: I made a website that tracks new books in the field: rhetorlist.net
I've too often missed the announcement for a great new book, only to find it months (or years!) later. Rhetorlist tries to solve that problem. I hope it's useful. (1/4)
In my 1999 dissertation, titled Writing Networks, I argued that writing technologies teach students things that conflict with writing teachers' pedagogy. Technologies have pedagogy too. This is why it's important for folks in our field to *make* them not just use them.
ALT Book cover of Writing Workflows: Beyond Word Processing by Tim Lockridge and Derek Van Ittersum.
ALT UMP Annotates: a social project graphic, with sketch of woman on laptop computer and speech bubbles
ALT Writing workflow from Chapter 6 of Tim Lockridge and Derek Van Ittersum’s Writing Workflows. Sketch (from left to right) of a CV with an arrow pointing to a book with sticky notes. Arrows in both directions connect a legal pad and open notebook. Another arrow pointing to a laptop. A final arrow points to two printed pages.
Alex Borowitz, a former student in my Digital Writing & Rhetoric course, has a video in the new issue of @TheJUMPPlus. His short piece is a beautiful depiction of writing spaces and process, & the best part of my job is seeing students do work like this: jumpplus.net/issues/issue-8-…
Rhetoric & Writing colleagues: I made a website that tracks new books in the field: rhetorlist.net
I've too often missed the announcement for a great new book, only to find it months (or years!) later. Rhetorlist tries to solve that problem. I hope it's useful. (1/4)
Also: The site has syndication support (via JSON Feed), so you can subscribe to updates with an RSS reader like Feedbin or Feedly. And the data is sortable & filterable (in desktop-size browsers), so you can search a column for keywords or filter for specific presses. (3/4)
NPR has a text-only website for storm-affected people with limited connectivity. It's a great idea: text.npr.org
But it also makes me nostalgic for a simpler, less ad-infected web.
The latest version of Mendeley prevents you from getting all of your data out of the app. We’ve added instructions for transferring your full library to Zotero — which will always remain open — while you still can. zotero.org/support/kb/mendel…
Congratulations to @timlockridge and @derekvan, 2018 winners of the DRC/UM Press Book Prize for Writing Workflows: Beyond Word Processing!! Looking forward to bringing it to publication!
Since 2006, two years after #Facebook’s launch and right about when I joined the platform, I’ve been blogging about #privacy and #Zuckerberg. Here's a brief chronology (through late 2010, when blogging apparently wasn't a thing anymore). michaelzimmer.org/2018/04/11…