Many writers and producers are often confused about the differences between a multimedia project and multimodal product. To put it simply, both words share the prefix “multi-”, which means “more than one.” On the one hand, the word “media” – a plural of medium – refers to the technology that is used to produce the … Continue reading Multimedia vs. Multimodal: A Matter of Terms

In this presentation, my students and I share about our learning experience with The HUMN Project, a semester-long ethnographic literacy narrative project designed to provide an opportunity for students to think about their literacy practices and those of others, and to consider issues surrounding literacy acquisition. Presentation materials: Presentation deck (pdf) Handout (pdf) The HUMN … Continue reading Re-envisioning the Research Project: The HUMN Project @ 2015 FYW Symposium

Platonic/Socratean: Gorgias, Phaedrus; the Sophists Apology (apologia/defense) Why Socrates Died (2009) - On the court system Why Socrates Died (2009) - A Cock for Asclepius Paraphrase of Gorgias' treatise The Great Speech of Protagoras Commentary on Protagoras Antiphon Dissoi Logoi with commentary John Poulakos (1994), "Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric" Edward Schiappa (2003), "Toward an … Continue reading Resources for Rhetorical Theories: Classical Era

Integrating Google Glass into first-year writing has been an endeavor that I took upon as part of the wearable research initiative at the University of Minnesota this semester. Today, the Wearable Research Team gave an informal presentation to the faculty members and graduate students of the Writing Studies Department at the monthly Parlor and below is … Continue reading Wearable Peer Review