Archive for the ‘News’ Category

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 ...

Site work

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Not sure who's reading this, but I want to post this note anyway. I'm revising the CompReview and Recent Books sections as I move them from the old site to the new server.  So users might find some "unfinished" pages that function but that aren't yet "templated" and thus are missing ...

WAC Journals

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Thanks to Mike Palmquist and Justin Jory (WAC Clearinghouse), CompPile now has a complete index of Academic.Writing, Language and Learning across the Disciplines (LLAD), and Across the Disciplines (ATD).  These entries include links to the online versions of the articles and annotations.

New online, international Journal of Writing Research

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The first issue of the new online, international Journal of Writing Research is now indexed in CompPile.  We will add this to the list of journals that we index regularly.

Teaching English in the Two-Year College

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

TETYC is now indexed through its recent 2008 issues.  This is an important upload for the 2000+ initiative.  We now have an arrangement with the editorial staff at TETYC to help us keep the entries updated.

Blog feed @ CompPile

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Users will notice the addition of a CompBlog feed in the bottom left of the front page.  I'm trying this feature to generate a bit of interest in the blog and to prompt me (and Rich) to use the blog more regularly. The blog has an RSS feed available, but I'm ...

Updates: Journals Covered, Adopt a Journal, Volunteer

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Finally updated the journals  pages, moving to the new CompPile "look" and changing the primary organization of the journals to the new "scholarly areas" categories.  In addition, the process for volunteering / adopting journals is updated, too, as a way to integrate the 'Associates' in that process. I will be adding ...

Announcing CompPile Associates

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

We are excited to announce the first >CompPile Associates<: Dr. Ed Nagelhout, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and Dr. Susan Wolff Murphy, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. What are >CompPile Associates<? Last month, we celebrated CompPile's seventh birthday. Since its appearance in May 2001, with 17,000+ entries, it has grown to more than ...

Sue Hum’s annotations

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

In a week or so, I'll finish uploading Sue Hum's annotations for a large chunk of articles indexed in CompPile. The annotations cover all pieces relevant to comp/rhet published from 1970 through 1979 in College English, College Composition and Communication, Freshman English News, and Journal of Basic Writing. So far ...