Joel Shaver

"In my composition class, students’ first assignment asks them to conduct research on the writing and..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:50:39 +0100

“In my composition class, students’ first assignment asks them to conduct research on the writing and research practices of other disciplinary activity systems by interviewing professors, students, and professionals on their writing and research practices. I provide students the option to study an activity system outside of the university, but no student has chosen to do so, possibly because students already have access to the activity system of the university. Students are encouraged to observe a class meeting and to collect any syllabi, assignment prompts, or other documents from this activity system, in addition to conducting interviews.”

- CF 25: “The ‘Research Paper’ Prompt” by Kerry Dirk

"I recently taught a freshman composition course that included several short papers, some of which..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:35:47 +0100

“I recently taught a freshman composition course that included several short papers, some of which involved research, but no extensive research project. Although I had distributed a syllabus that included descriptions of the assignments we would cover that semester, a student approached me several times throughout the semester to ask when we would write “the big research paper that is common in every English class.” Despite my attempts to convince her that we would be writing no such paper in this particular course, she could not let go of the idea that an English course could exist without the inclusion of this particular genre. What fascinated me most was that her previous experiences had so deeply engrained into her the belief that there is one unified research paper—a paper that seems to belong to an English class—that makes up one unified genre. I could not fault her for this belief, as many students rightly come to my classes with similar expectations, often seeing writing courses as hoops through which they must jump before moving into their disciplinary courses and being done with “English.” Through additional conversations with this student, I realized that for her, and I suspect for many other students, a research paper stood between her and the rest of her disciplinary work for which she believed there would be no such papers.”

- CF 25: “The ‘Research Paper’ Prompt” by Kerry Dirk

Pidgin: The Voice of Hawaii (Segment) (by IkimashoZ)

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:44:42 +0100

Pidgin: The Voice of Hawaii (Segment) (by IkimashoZ)

pidgin_identity_HD.wmv (by ericxjo)

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:37:52 +0100

pidgin_identity_HD.wmv (by ericxjo)

(via “You’re just mad because I found a scholar to...

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:21:19 +0100

(via “You’re just mad because I found a scholar to back me up.” - New Yorker Cartoon Poster Print by Frank Cotham at the Condé Nast Collection)

For A Black Doctor, Building Trust By Slowing Down : NPR

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:13:09 +0100

For A Black Doctor, Building Trust By Slowing Down : NPR

CBS Exclusive: Gov. Sarah Palin (by Katie Couric)

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:16:17 +0100

CBS Exclusive: Gov. Sarah Palin (by Katie Couric)

Couric / Palin Open (Saturday Night Live) (by NBC)

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:07:38 +0100

Couric / Palin Open (Saturday Night Live) (by NBC)

(via Saturday Night Live - Gov. Palin Cold Open - Video -...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:56:18 +0100

(via Saturday Night Live - Gov. Palin Cold Open - Video - NBC.com)

Are Your Skinny Jeans Starving the World? | Mother Jones

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:59:09 +0100

Are Your Skinny Jeans Starving the World? | Mother Jones:

(to act as a counterpoint to Virginia Postrel’s “In Praise of Chain Stores”)

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" read by Flannery O'Connor « Discerning Hearts Discerning Hearts

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:05:45 +0100

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" read by Flannery O'Connor « Discerning Hearts Discerning Hearts:

Much better recording

DYSA Ebonics controversy — Ann Arbor, MI school board (by...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:21:29 +0100

DYSA Ebonics controversy — Ann Arbor, MI school board (by Laura McGarrity)

DYSA African American English (or Ebonics) in the classroom (by...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:13:22 +0100

DYSA African American English (or Ebonics) in the classroom (by Laura McGarrity)

"Still, some shows make outsiders want to be insiders. Many Americans have had exactly that..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:48:36 +0100

“Still, some shows make outsiders want to be insiders. Many Americans have had exactly that experience watching British TV. “I watched The Young Ones and Absolutely Fabulous,” comedian Julie Klausner says. “And I didn’t know who Felicity Kendal was, but she was a punch line in so many Young Ones episodes.” (Kendal is a British actress famous mainly in her home country.) This experience of not being in the club, of missing cultural references, is not unlike that of being an immigrant, says writer Junot Diaz. He tried to recreate that experience in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It’s a slurry of comic-book references, science-fiction allusions and Dominican-American slang.”

- In A Fragmented Cultureverse, Can Pop References Still Pop? : NPR

NPR Team Covers Race, Ethnicity And Culture : NPR

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:36:29 +0100

NPR Team Covers Race, Ethnicity And Culture : NPR

Volkswagen Game Day 2013 Commercial | Get In. Get Happy. (by...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:07:59 +0100

Volkswagen Game Day 2013 Commercial | Get In. Get Happy. (by Volkswagen)

Learning How To Code-Switch: Humbling, But Necessary : Code Switch : NPR

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:27:38 +0100

Learning How To Code-Switch: Humbling, But Necessary : Code Switch : NPR

Ira Glass on Storytelling, part 1 of 4 (by PRI)

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:04:56 +0100

Ira Glass on Storytelling, part 1 of 4 (by PRI)

http://www.ora.wa.gov/documents/small_business/sbg_plan.pdf

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:00:55 +0000

http://www.ora.wa.gov/documents/small_business/sbg_plan.pdf

Alfred Hitchcock - A Jury Of Her Peers - 26. December 1961 (by...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:07:56 +0000

Alfred Hitchcock - A Jury Of Her Peers - 26. December 1961 (by 0010moviemaker)