Archive for July, 2008

Writing Center Journal now current

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Today I uploaded WCJ 26.2, which means WCJ is now current in CompPile. Thanks to the members of WCENTER-L for providing page numbers when I sent the request. I continue to work on WLN.  And we continue to seek volunteers, not only for indexing, but to review the current indexing and ...

Comment Feature

Friday, July 25th, 2008

You may have noticed a new tab in the top menu that explains "comments."  The comment feature is now open for CompBlog posts.  To prevent spam, any comment that includes a URL will be held for moderation.  Otherwise, comments are welcome, as long as commenters identify themselves. We look forward to ...

Writing Center Journal / Writing Lab Newsletter

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Last week, I announced, optimistically, that I would try to have completed indexing for WCJ and WLN by this week.  As is too often the case, I was over-optimistic. WCJ is now current except for three issues: 25.2, 26.1, and 26.2.  Unfortunately, the online archive (when I can access it) doesn't ...

New/Recent Books and CompReviews

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

The CompReviews process has now been revised significantly and moved to the new servers.  As I've said in other places, any item listed in CompPile is now a candidate for review--books, articles, chapters, webspaces. At WPA 2008, one of the focuses of our session about using online tools focused on CompReviews, ...

WPA 2008: Denver

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The WPA conference was especially productive.  Later this week, I want to use this blog as a space to share the many great ideas that came from the conference. We discussed CompPile, CompFAQs, the Research Exchange,  WAC Clearinghouse, and Digital WPA in our Roundtable discussion: "How can we better document, preserve, protect, ...

Writing Center Journal

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I uploaded entries for WCJ through 2005.  I plan to complete indexing for WCJ and for WLN in time for the IWCA summer workshop next week.  I'll announce that here.

Visible Language

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Rich has indexed and uploaded entries for Visible Language from 2000-2007.  With our profession's current interest in visual rhetoric and new media, this journal is one that might interest a volunteer to maintain?

Journal List updated

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

One of the important features @ CompPile is our list of field-related journals.  We now list 306 journals as relevant for CompPile users.  CompPile does not yet index all 306, but we have that as a goal. The list of journals has been moved to the new server, and, in fact, ...

CompReviews

Friday, July 4th, 2008

The CompReviews section of CompPile now includes 10 new reviews.  You'll note that several of them are reviews for single essays in edited collections, which is a positive development, I think. To contribute a review for any item in CompPile, use the "review" link in the left column.  The review interface ...

WPA: now current to issue 31.1/2

Friday, July 4th, 2008

In preparation for the WPA conference next week, I just finished indexing and uploading 132 entries for WPA: Writing Program Administration.  That represents all issues from 2000-2007.  Entries deserve more attention to search terms, and for one issue, I don't have ending page numbers. To entries for the full run of ...