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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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Monday, September 1st, 2008
I've redesigned the front page of CompPile, slightly. Thinking of CompPile as a place where we go to find information, I've added a column of "CompLinks" that list links to various resources and tools that are part of our everyday work (I think?).
In the first attempt, the list includes "professional ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
I've published a drafty piece about possible ways that faculty might invite graduate students to contribute to CompFAQs as part of their graduate course work. The link leads to the CompFAQs wiki. I'll appreciate any feedback.
This wiki piece is a companion to my recent blog posting Volunteering as Learning: Inviting ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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.
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