WRT624 – Brooke – Lingua Fracta Ch. 4

Collin Brooke.  Lingua Fracta:  Towards a Rhetoric of New Media – Chapter 4 “Pattern” This chapter takes up the field of arrangement in rhetoric and composition studies in relation to new media.  Brooke begins the chapter noting how early hypertext theory heralded the death of arrangement on the part of the author as the reader/consumer of the text now determined (thorugh the process of choosing links/electronic paths) the format that the... Read More

CCR691 – Week 3 – Ch. 2 Blog for Comment

Chapter 2 : Poetics and Narrativity:  How Texts Tell Stories – Phillip Eubanks Main Claims / Executive Summary In this chapter, Eubanks sets out to reclaim narrative and metaphorical criticism from the hands of “traditional poetics” in order to recognize how influential narrative and metaphor are to the creation of meaning in daily life. To achieve this, he begins by grounding  the all-pervasiveness of narrativity in two areas:... Read More

CCR691 – Researcher Profile

Part I: Beginnings I had every intention of becoming a park ranger.  My experience as a boy scout – coupled with an environmental interest coaxed along during that odd time in the early 90s that was all about the environment, heat waves, climate change, save the whales/turtles, etc. . . . the time before the battle was overly partisan, or maybe before the scientific proof was available for all – had prepared me for a career walking the... Read More