Poor Grades and Facebook Use Linked? New Harvard study says “Nope”
A new study published in First Monday calls into question findings from an Ohio State University dissertation that showed a link between frequent Facebook use and poor grades. The earlier study by Aryn...
View ArticleStreams, Social Distribution, and Writing
I have been reading John Borthwick on The Rise of Social Distribution, which I picked up via Jyri Engestrom’s stream. This is an interesting read for lots of reasons. He touches on content distribution...
View ArticleReinventing the (professional writing) Major
I have been dwelling for some time with ideas for rethinking the professional writing major in response to phenomena that aren’t going away, such as the inadequacy of the university for life-long...
View ArticleWe Are All Digital Humanists Now
By way of Bruce Maylath, I came across Cathy Davidson’s “Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions” (couldn’t find an online version, and so: PMLA, 2008, Volume 123, Number 3, pp. 707–717). This is...
View ArticleComing Soon: Thinking About Writing and Programs with WIDE
WIDE would like to give a heads up to friends and colleagues that a key project for the Center this year will be to generate and discuss issues and concerns connected to what writing programs should...
View ArticleA Vision for English Education
WIDE recently announced that we were interested in generating and sharing a set of idea documents that proposed innovative approaches to a set of writing program issues that took into consideration the...
View ArticleImagining a High-Value Writing Program
Given that the political economy of universities has been changing for some time and has, most recently, changed in a visibly dramatic way, new models for writing programs are now required. The first...
View ArticleWIDE to Keynote at Great Plains Computers and Writing
North Dakota State University is hosting a meeting in October that plays with “WIDE” as a name and theme and that features presentations from us. The meeting, themed “WIDE Open Spaces” focuses on...
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