Daughters in business

I was watching TV this weekend (though only when I was allowing myself a food break) and saw a commercial for Henderson and Daughter Windows and Doors, located in Vancouver, WA. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company named with “daughter(s)” instead of “son(s).” Probably when daughters take over businesses they either keep the [...]

some definitions of rhetoric

Found this at Andrea Lunsford’s site for her “Gender and the History of Rhetoric” course at Stanford. (Sounds like a great course.)
Some Definitions of Rhetoric
Plato: Rhetoric is “the art of winning the soul by discourse.”
Aristotle: Rhetoric is “the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.
Cicero: “Rhetoric [...]

something I’m thankful for

(I took this in October of 2004 at Tim’s Pond on Highway 12 on the way to White Pass, about a half-hour out of Yakima, Washington.)
Today I’m alone and away from home, working on a book review. I’m saved from spending the whole day alone and turkey-less, though, because one of my professors invited [...]

Medieval Helpdesk… Having trouble converting from scrolls to this new book technology??

Lisa Ede showed Travis and me this video this afternoon: Medieval HelpDesk. Too funny!
Reminds me of when CD drives were first install in our PCs at DGA (where I used to work), and there was actually someone who thought it was a cup-holder.

bibliography on Thoreau’s composition and rhetoric education

Adams, Raymond. “Thoreau at Harvard: Some Unpublished Records.” New England Quarterly. 13 (March 1940): 24-33.
Anderson, Dorothy. “Edward T. Channing’s Teaching of Rhetoric.” Speech Monographs 16 (1949): 69-81. Available in Valley. PN4077 .S6
Bode, Carl. “A New College Manuscript of Thoreau’s” American Literature, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Nov., 1949), pp. 311-320 (printed out copy via [...]

a nice surprise!

Nice surprise today! I was browsing in the bookstore when a guy said, “Excuse me. Don’t I know you?” As soon as I saw his face, I remembered him from the YVCC Writing Center. “Yes! YVCC!” I said. “The Writing Center!” he replied. I couldn’t remember his name, but after we’d talked for a minute, [...]

more for Thoreau bibliography

Thoreau, Henry David. Early Essays and Miscellanies. Princeton UP, 1975. PS3042 .M58 1975  “About 53 pieces, some long, most short, written ca. 1834-1852.”
Glick. Wendell. “Three New Early Manuscripts by Thoreau.” The Huntington Library Quarterly 15 (1951-52): 59-71. Available in Valley! Z733.S24 A3
Woodlief, Annette. “The Influence of Theories of Rhetoric on Thoreau.” Thoreau Journal Quarterly [...]

34F and snow

Yakima weather this evening: 34F and snow. Okay, now I’m really homesick! First snow of the season. Deb says it’s slushy, but I don’t care. I love snow. Hmmm… should I finish this book review or rush home to Yakima so I can slosh in the snow? Hmmm
Here in Corvallis, it’s 43F [...]

integrating “personal” and textual sources

I was thinking: When we require students — as we do here in WR 121 — to write a paper which integrates two textual sources and one personal source, isn’t that actually a more difficult assignment than had we required them to integrate three textual sources? In other words, doesn’t adding personal experience/knowledge to the [...]

OWL habitat in Writing Centers

This looks interesting…
Taking Flight With Owls: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work
By James A. Inman, Donna N. Sewell (2007 ISBN 080583172X)
Taking Flight With OWLs examines computer technology use in writing centers. Its purpose is to move beyond anecdotal evidence for implementing computer technology in writing centers, presenting carefully considered studies that theorize the move [...]