Sanchez – Outside the Text: Retheorizing Empiricism and Identity

Sanchez, Raul.  “Outside the Text: Retheorizing Empricism and Identity.”  College English 74 (3) 234-246. Sanchez begins by recognizing that the study of writing over the past 40 years has resulted in an expanded notion of textuality – what Susan Miller has called the “textual world” or what Derrida terms the “general field of writing” (234).  This expansion pushes composition research beyond the idea... Read More

Wahlstrom – Teaching and Learning Communities: Locating Literacy, Agency, and Authority in the Digital Domain

Wahlstrom, Billie J. “Teaching and Learning Communities:  Locating Literacy, Agency, and Authority in a Digital Domain.” Computers and Technical Communication:  Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives. Ed. Selber, Stuart A. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997. 129-48. Print. W. acknowledges the importance of TC at the particular moment because its subject matter is located at the center of the “communication/technology” nexus of... Read More

CCR691 – Final Project – Hunter

Hunter, Shona. “Oscillating Politics and Shifting Agencies: Equalities and Diversity Work and Actor Network Theory.” Equal Opportunities International 26 5 (2007): 402-19. Print. This essay uses ANT to develop an analysis of Iopia, a Black woman equalities educator working in a prison in the UK in an education context.  The article hopes to demonstrate how the actor-network interacts with both human and non human... Read More

CCR601 – Textual Machinery – Kennedy

Kennedy, Krista. “Textual Machinery:  Authorial Agency and Bot-Written Texts in Wikipedia.” The Responsibilities of Rhetoric. Ed. Michelle Smith and Barbara Warnick. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2010. 303-309. Executive Summary: Kennedy discusses the notion of authorship and authorial agency in the context of theoretical and legalistic arguments about authorship in bot-driven encyclopedic texts (Wikipedia).  Theoretically speaking,... Read More