- Key theories in computers and writing, in which I discuss my own pedagogical approach.
- The importance of multiliteracies in the technical communication field
- Defining culture and the problems that lie with defining such things.
My third question deals with my specialized area, i.e. my dissertation. So I think I will have a question like this:
- Trace the rhetoric of memorial and commemoration from classical rhetoric through modern rhetorical theory.
Read, read, read. Notes, notes, notes. This will be the majority of my life for a while. I really want to take my comps in March. Most people think this is a quick turnaround, but doable. I just don't want to keep putting it off.
But right now I feel directionless. Not sure where to start reading. I had a dream last night where I saw all the books I need to read and it was a little scary. Yesterday, I was told, that if I wanted to get my comps done in a year, I need to read four sources a week. I am giving myself seven months. I am not a math person, but that's more than four sources a week. And since Thursday, I've finished only one - and it wasn't even a primary text I plan on using.
I am just going to keep remembering what a professor said: this is the only time in my life that I will be able to just read and soak in knowledge.
Ahhhhh...
My intent, if that's ok with all of my readers (I don't actually know who I am posing this question to), I am going to use this space as a reading journal. Keep account of all I've read and perhaps jot some notes.
Also, if any reader (and once again, I am not actually sure I have any) has any great suggestions of sources as I get going here, please, please, please share.
2 comments:
Can't remember if you took history of rhetoric or not, but if you didn't, Pericles' funeral oration is a good memorial thing to talk about. Gettysburg address, too, maybe?
The Gettysburg address might be a good idea...and didn't know about Pericles', but will look that up. Sweet! Thanks!
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