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Prior and Shipka: Chronotopic Lamination – Tracing the Contours of Literate Activity

Posted by justin on April 9, 2012 · 1 Comment

Prior, Paul and Jody Shipka. “Chronotopic Lamination: Tracing the Contours of Literate Activity” in Writing Selves, Writing Societies. Eds. Chuck Bazerman and David Russell. Abstract: This chapter explores the chronotopic lamination (Bakhtin, 1981; Prior, 1998) of writers’ literate activity—the dispersed, fluid chains of places, times, people, and artifacts that come to be tied together in trajectories of literate action along... Read More

Filed under Diss Reading · Tagged with activity theory, activity theory method, bazerman, chronotope, genre ecology, genre theory, qualitative methodology, russell

Berkenkotter, Huckin, & Ackerman – Social Context and Socially Constructed Texts

Posted by justin on March 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Berkenkotter, Huckin, & Ackerman. “Social context and socially constructed texts: The initiation of a graduate student into a writing community.” In Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and contemporary studies of writing in professional communities. Eds. C. Bazerman and J. Paradis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 191-215. Print. The authors begin by recognizing the function of disciplinary literacies that... Read More

Filed under CCR631 · Tagged with academic genres, discourse communities, genre theory, grad student life, speech communities

CCR760 – Usability Readings – Just Notes

Posted by justin on March 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Kim, Loel, et al. “Keeping Users at the Center: Developing a Multimedia Interface for Informed Consent.” Technical Communication QuarterlyCommunication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Mar. 2010. 17.3 (2008): 335-357. In this article the authors document their process of creating a user-centered design to develop online support for informed consent in pediatric research trials. To achieve this, the authors had to discover solutions... Read More

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New Music – 10/13/2011

Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal : Such amazingly wonderful, sweet, poppy goodness from this Reykjavik-based 6 piece. I especially appreciate the omnipresent accordion and loud shout-outs that occur throughout the album. I do wish the vocals were a bit more difficult to get at . . . but I suppose [...]

New Music – 9/14/2011

The Hylozoists – L’Île de Sept Villes: This 2009 effort from Toronto based instrumental collective is based on Paul Chaisson’s book The Island Of Seven Cities. After much archaeological research trouncing about in the wayfarlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Chaisson argues that a Chinese presence existed in North America long before the arrival of European [...]

New Music – 8/24/2011

The Dead Trees – Whatwave : A lot of pretty nice songs for late Summer on this release. The West Coast by way of Boston quartet is signed to the German Affairs of the Heart label (who also publishes the work of one of my faves Nik Freitas). So many good LA-based bands working for [...]