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CCCC-IP Position Statement on Plagiarism Detection Services
23 Jan 2012 at 11:32am
Posted by Clancy
pWell hello! How shameful that I haven't posted since July. This is just a quick link to the a href=http://culturecat.net/files/CCCC-IPpositionstatementDraft.pdfCCCC Intellectual Property Caucus's position statement on plagiarism detection services/a. It doesn't seem to be online anymore, and I've been asked to provide it, so I'm uploading my copy as an attachment to this post. /p

Facebook (or Foursquare) Check-in as Rhetorical Act
20 Jul 2011 at 11:20am
Posted by Clancy
pI just got an iPhone about a month ago, and I've been taking advantage of the check-in feature from time to time. I can't help but notice where people are when they choose to hit the check-in button, though. The laundromat? McDonald's? Walmart? The Exxon station? The free clinic? Not so much. Check-ins are all part of the crafting of the person we want to show people. Why else do we do it? To let others know where we are in case they're also there? We would have seen them already anyway. To let people know where we are if they're nearby?* They probably wouldn't actually come to that place to see us, for fear of seeming stalkerish (I wouldn't take it that way). /p pI'm as guilty as anyone of checking in at emcertain/em places: the gym, the public library, the science museum, the farmers' market, church. These places tell people what -- that I care about being a good mom, that I care about health and intellectual enrichment. One of my FB friends has great check-ins: Big Lots, Long John Silver's. Oh well. I suppose I ought to just not check in at all, but it's kind of fun; the novelty hasn't worn off yet. I think I'll try checking in from a place I go today that's not so obnoxiously in line with my perception of my idealized self. /p p* Although I have to say, when I go to Florence, AL soon to see my family and friends, this will be exactly why I check in; I want to bump into as many people as possible./p

Poem from a Car Trip, Mid-1980s
18 Apr 2011 at 10:19pm
Posted by Clancy
pIt's possible that I wrote this poem by myself, but I suspect I had some help. /p pimg src=http://culturecat.net/files/Scan 4.jpg width=600 / /p pThe illustrations are a moist towelette (sink) and this bedpan-type potty my mom always had in the car on long road trips./p

Indirect Assessment of ULL's First-Year Writing Program
14 Apr 2011 at 11:35am
Posted by Clancy
pI recently received an a href=http://apfd.louisiana.edu/grants-awards/Instructional-Improvement-Mini-Grants.pdfInstructional Improvement Mini-Grant/a (link goes to a PDF) to do a somewhat large-scale indirect assessment project for our a href=http://english.louisiana.edu/about-us/firstyearwriting/index.shtmlwriting program/a. I, along with my most excellent a href=http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~crs1693/index.htmlresearch assistant/a, have distributed a survey to 512 students so far, with mayb...

My second Prezi
3 Apr 2011 at 2:05pm
Posted by Clancy
pI gave another talk yesterday using Prezi. I kind of like it even though there are many who don't and/or who think it's just a fad. The fact that it's something new and different from PowerPoint is, for me, a good thing./p div class=prezi-player style type=text/css media=screen.prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }/styleobject id=prezi_ucvfcqxtzap0 name=prezi_ucvfcqxtzap0 classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000 width=550 height=400param name=mo...

Free and Open Textbooks in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
26 Mar 2011 at 5:40pm
Posted by Clancy
pBelow is my article for this year's a href=http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/ip/2010developmentsemCCCC-IP Annual/em/a:/p pThe issue of access is one of the main reasons our field has held a prolonged interest in copyright and intellectual property matters. We want everyone to have access to education, art, science, and culture. We want open-access publishing in general, for our scholarship and for teaching resources. But we especially empathize with college students and their diverse finan...

My first Prezi
19 Mar 2011 at 3:33pm
Posted by Clancy
pI presented this talk today at a href=http://la-cc.org/LACC/a to an audience of two. But it went fairly well. Now to celebrate my daughter's first birthday!/p div class=prezi-player style type=text/css media=screen.prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }/styleobject id=prezi_ou87fydsncrd name=prezi_ou87fydsncrd classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000 width=550 height=400param name=movie value=http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf /param name=allo...

CCCC Virtual Conference
15 Mar 2011 at 11:29pm
Posted by Clancy
pI have the utmost respect for the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Truly. But what's this all about? Via the NCTE Inbox email newsletter, I saw this evening that CCCC is having a Virtual Conference, a.k.a. Flavor of the 2011 CCCC Convention, for the first time ever. The email said: /p blockquotepIf you just can't make it to the CCCC Annual Convention in Atlanta next month, join us for the very first CCCC Virtual Conference. Designed to bring you a flavor of the 2011 Confe...

Computers and Composition Review
22 Feb 2011 at 9:15pm
Posted by Clancy
pDoing my part for the intellectual commons -- Elsevier allows authors to post copies of their published work on their personal web sites, after all, so here it is. I've always thought scholars ought to keep online repositories of their own work, like a href=http://www4.ncsu.edu/~crmiller/publications.htmCarolyn Miller/a. I want to do the same, maybe with an a href=http://openscholar.harvard.edu/homeOpenScholar/a site. But for now, this book review I wrote is on Scribd:/p pa title=View Ratlif...

Kipling's Prose
26 Nov 2010 at 3:03pm
Posted by Clancy
pAnother one from the papers-of-yore files. I wrote this one in spring 1998, the semester after I graduated. I ended up taking a year off between my B.A. and starting my M.A. program (fall of 1999), and I took three courses in spring 98 as a non-degree-seeking student in an attempt to stay sharp. /p pMy assignment here was simply write a paper about Kipling's prose. Before that, I had to write a paper about Thomas Babington Macaulay, which I don't have in electronic format. I don't know where...

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