Tuesday, January 19: Turn, Turn, Turn – Psychological and Social

Guest Speaker

Charlie Bennett. Mastermind of Lost in the Stacks. Topic: Podcasting.

Reading

Read these articles in the order they appear below to see how thinking about writing unfolded.

Flower, L., & Hayes, J. R. (1981). A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing. College Composition and Communication, 32(4), 365–387. (reserves link)

Bizzell, P. (1982). Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing. PRE/TEXT, 3(3), 213–43. (reserves link)

Bruffee, K. A. (1984). Collaborative Learning and the “Conversation of Mankind.” College English, 46(7), 635–652. (reserves link)

Mlynarczyk, R. W. (2006). Personal and Academic Writing: Revisiting the Debate. Journal of Basic Writing, 25(1), 4–25. (reserves link)

Writing

Establish your WordPress site.

  1. Register a domain at emorydomains.org. (Ask Fisher for coupon code.)
  2. Create a subdomain for the class on your site from within the cPanel and install WordPress there. Title it something specific to our class, like “theory” or “multiliteracies” (e.g., multiliteracies.davidfisher.org).
  3. Get an API key (basic plan) for the Akismet plugin and then activate it.
  4. Sign up for a Gravatar and associate it with your principal email addresses. It’s helpful if your Gravatar is a photo of you, but not required.
  5. Create an “About” page. On that page write a brief paragraph or two about yourself. Include an image of yourself on that page, possibly the one that you’re using with the Gravatar.
  6. Email the URL of your WordPress site to me at d.d.fisher@emory.edu.

Email your Twitter handle to me, too.

Live tweet.

Discussion leadership.