Context: It's a paper about effing COMICS. Not, say, post-structuralist feminist theory in light of Foucault's Author-function.

Graphic literature's advancement as a serious genre studies during the presently ensuing decade may be traced to innovations in the pattern of comics, archetypal imagistic-discursive design that functions in cartooning ( Read more... )

» Interview tomorrow with Glorybee Foods in Eugene. I applied there for a marketing assistant position, which apparently they filled, but then I guess they opened up a new position (Events/Social Media) and called me. Which is good, I think ( Read more... )

Haven't had one of those in a while.

I seem to be adding a lot of vibrating, twitchy-type icons lately. It's probably related to the fact that I've been developing headaches when I don't get my daily dose of caffeinated beverage.

Portfolio is due this week. Also a rough draft of a paper and an article for the Rearguard. And maybe some job ( Read more... )

And any of you who have read my first drafts (which is like, none of you except Dana) know that I am completely and totally incapable of being srs bsns right off the bat. It's why it takes me so long to write them and also I hate it.

In an effort to speed up the process this time, I'm preemptively posting an outtake. This is from Kingis Quair, a ( Read more... )

So, I volunteered at the Oregon Rhetoric & Composition Conference today. It was a geeky good time, made especially so because the theme was "The Future of Composition: Methods, Contexts, and Technologies." The internet's influence on rhetoric and the teaching of writing was one of the recurring topics, especially Facebook and blogs.

Let me tell you ( Read more... )

I just got an email from the library.

Dear aquidisA request you have placed ( Read more... )

Especially when you first lay eyes on the title of the required book*:


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There's a girl in one of my classes who talks about her writing style: she agonizes over every world, every sentence, before she can commit it to paper. I thought about her just now as I started to write a paper (in which I may end up comparing rhetoric, dialectic and the menstrual cycle...don't ask ( Read more... )

I need your help! For my Contemporary Composition Theories class, I'm doing a project on how personality preferences shape the composing of writing. To gather some data, I've devised a fun little exercise that won't take but ten (or so) minutes of your time. There's a bit of creativity involved, and being true to yourself is more important than ( Read more... )

So far this quarter (in cursory reading/research only), I have come across two published articles that are completely-- and awesomely-- trolls. One was published by a physics professor in critique of postmodernism (and by critique, I mean he published a paper of utter nonsense and watched while people agreed with him, only to completely rip into ( Read more... )