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The slides for my talk at Genre 2012: "Visually Re/Framing the Genres of Graduate Education."TRANSCRIPT
I have a disease; I see language.Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
Collin Gifford BrookeSyracuse University
Visually Re/Framing the Genres of Graduate Education
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InfoVisTools
“Disciplinary Genre Competence”
Artemeva and Fox, “Awareness Versus Production: Probing Students’ Antecedent Genre Knowledge.” JBTC 24 (October 2010): 476-515.
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“Absent direct instruction, graduate education in English assumes that students learn how to write critically through repeated exposure and an osmosis-like process” (485).
Micciche & Carr, “Toward Graduate-Level Writing Instruction.” CCC 62 (Feb 2011): 477-501.4
“...I inform my experience, I deliberately begin reading, with an intention to experience the material constitution of the text. It is as if a type-designer invited me to look at the design of his type as he discussed type-design.”Joseph Williams, “The Phenomenology of Error.” CCC 32 (1981): 152-168.
Seeing Language
“...a field this large cannot be understood by stitching together separate bits of knowledge about individual cases, because it isn’t a sum of individual cases; it’s a collective system, that should be grasped as such, as a whole...”Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory
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close readingmaterial constitution
Seeing Language
distant readingcollective system
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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
The physical fact of the text, with its spatial appearance on the page, requires visual apprehension: a text can be seen, must be seen, in a process which is essentially different from the perception of speech.
Stephen Bernhardt, “Seeing the Text”
CCC 37.1 (1986)
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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
Tables of Contentstopical
Bibliographiesalphabetical
Course Syllabichronological
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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
Carolyn Miller, “Genre as Social Action”9
Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
tagclouds/wordlesas elevation mapsof texts
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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
NY Times, DNC/RNC coverage, 200811
Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
Carolyn Miller, “Genre as Social Action”12
Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
Derek Mueller, “Digital Underlife in the Networked Writing Classroom” Computers and Composition 26.4 (2009).
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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
20 years of College Composition and Communicationdelicious.com/ccco
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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
Valdis Krebs, “Divided We Stand...Still” (2004)15
Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
Christopher Warnow, “A Thousand Milieus”
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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network
Dan Wang, “Is There a Canon in Economic Sociology?”Accounts 11.2 (2012)
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For writers to make things happen...they must understand the directions in which a field is developing at any given time and possess the rhetorical savvy necessary for positioning their work within it..
Berkenkotter and Huckin, Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication 18
Defamiliarization
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the creation of methods of interpretation that are generative and iterative, capable of producing new knowledge through the aesthetic provocation of graphical expressions.
Graphesis
Johanna Drucker, Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing20
Allegorithm (Algorithm + Allegory) Alexander Galloway, Gaming
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Collin Gifford BrookeSyracuse University
Image and text credits available at: http://www.cgbrooke.net/genre12
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