Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
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.
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
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.
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Monday, January 17th, 2011
Richard N. Matzen has compiled a new WPA-CompPile Research Bibliography (No. 15): Transfer English Credit from Two-Year Institutions to Four-Year Institutions.
See the full list of Bibliographies.
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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.
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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 ...
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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 ...
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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 ...
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
[Note: This is an old post, but I'm moving it.]
Roundtable: How can we better document, preserve, protect, and share our learning?
Participate in the online discussion from the session:
http://comppile.org/comment
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 ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Learn more about the partnership between WPA and NSSE that has resulted in the "Consortium for the Study of Writing in College." Here's a brief excerpt from the new website:
The Council of Writing Program Administrators and the National ...
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