CompPile News
See the new WPA-CompPile Bibliography for Global Englishes and Language Difference, now available at CompPile. As always, thanks to Dylan Dryer and Rich Haswell, and thanks to Bruce Horner and his talented colleagues for assembling this excellent addition to CompPile.
Now available on CompPile is a function that allows anybody to submit records. The submittal page, which contains explanations and directions, is:
<http://comppile.org/site/contribute.php>
In a nutshell, we are looking for publications not yet entered into the database, especially from 2000-present, although 1939-1999 records are certainly welcome.
Richard N. Matzen has compiled a new WPA-CompPile Research Bibliography (No. 15): Transfer English Credit from Two-Year Institutions to Four-Year Institutions.
Lori Houston (UT PanAm) has contributed an interesting overview of working with learning disabled writers. Follow this link to the “new” section in CompFAQs and to Lori’s contribution.
Thanks to Susan “George” Schorn (she located the document and gave us permission to make this available), CompPile’s archives now include English 1: Aims and Methods, written by a “Committee on English 1″ and approved by the English Department, University of Texas at Austin, in May of 1940.
Rich Haswell offers a brief introduction and links to download the document or view it online.
As you may recall, last month Dylan (Dryer) sent out two requests (to WPA-L) for a short survey on WPA CompPile Bibliographies use and areas needing annotators. We were delighted to receive 146 responses that gave us very good information about traffic to and within the Bibliographies page. We also heard your topics-requests loud and clear.
Now, the WPA-CompPile Bibliographies could use you. Please compare your areas of expertise to the two lists of topics below and let me <rhaswell@grandecom.net <rhaswell@grandecom.net> or Dylan <dylan.dryer@maine.edu <dylan.dryer@maine.edu> know which you’d be willing to take on.
All the details about the Bibliographies initiative are here:
<http://comppile.org/wpa/bibliographies/guide.php>
Earlier this year (July 2010), we uploaded Rich Haswell’s current version of the Glossary of rhet-comp
terminology: <http://comppile.org/site/glossary.htm>
With about 4,870 items, it’s a fourth longer than the previous version. I
don’t know how many terms the final Glossary will have (6,000?). Right now
I’m in the middle of the L’s. It’s slow work, since I’m changing,
regularizing, and augmenting search terms in the CompPile database as I go
along.
Suggestions are welcome. Send them to Rich <rhaswell at grandecom dot net>.
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Roundtable: How can we better document, preserve, protect, and share our learning?
Participate in the online discussion from the session:
Glenn Blalock glennblalock.phd@gmail.com Our Lady of the Lake College
Janis Haswell janis.haswell@tamucc.edu Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Rich Haswell rhaswell@grandecom.net Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, emeritas
Joan Mullin Illinois State University
Mike Palmquist mike.palmquist@colostate.edu Colorado State University
Steve Wilhoit stephen.wilhoit@notes.udayton.edu University of Dayton
Rich has finished updating the Quarterly of the National Writing Project, from the first issue in 1978 through 1999. Everything is uploaded and the link to the full-text files, which the NWP makes available at <http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/resources/quarterly_archives.csp> has been added to all the records. Total of 423 records.
Glenn will focus on updating from 2000 on.
For more than a few years now, many U.S. colleges and universities have initiated programs that invite (or require) FY students to read a “common” text before arriving on campus.
In August 2008, Chris Anson (N.C. State University) assembled an initial list (over 250 entries) of common readings from responses to queries posted on several listservs and from information obtained from the Internet. Chris shared that initial list with CompFAQs so that it is widely available and so that it can be updated regularly.
See / add to the list here or find it via CompFAQs, in the “Reading Lists” category.