http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:31:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Department of English and the Program in Rhetoric and Composition have received funding awards to enhance the use of pedagogical technology in in our current computer classrooms as well as the Writing Center and the department at large. Notable enhancements already in place include: A complete updating of one ... http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=124 Professor Pruchnic’s article “Neurorhetorics: Cybernetics, Psychotropics, and the Materiality of Persuasion” appears in the latest issue of Configurations 16.2 (Spring 2008): 167-197. http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=123 Richard Marback will lead a Writing for Publication workshop for rhet/comp graduate students on at 1 PM, Friday, 11/13, in the 10th floor conference room (#10302). This is the first in a series of program workshops organized specifically around graduate student requests. All current rhet/comp students, as well as those ... http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=121 The second Rhetoric Reading Group Meeting of the Fall semester will take place at 3:30 PM, Friday, November 13. The location will be The Motor City Brewing Works (470 W. Canfield Street). Our text will be Bryan Garsten’s Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard UP, 2006). http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=120 The latest issue of College Composition and Communication contains articles by two WSU rhet/comp faculty members. Issue 61.1 (September 2009) features Jim Brown's "Essjay's Ethos: Rethinking Textual Origins and Intellectual Property" and Gwen Gorzelsky's "Working Boundaries: From Student Resistance to Student Agency." http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=119 At 3:30 on 10/23, Daphne Brooks will present a talk entitled "Bring the Pain: Post-Soul Memory, Neo-Soul Affect and Lauryn Hill in the Black Public Sphere" as part of the 2009-2010 DeRoy Lecture Series. Brooks is an associate professor of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University where she teaches ... http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=118 Professors Ellen Barton and Richard Marback will deliver a talk entitled "The Bodies of the Urban Public" as part of the Humanities Center Fall Symposium on "Representation of Health and Disease in the City" Friday, November 6. The conference runs from 9 AM until 5 PM at the McGregor Memorial ... http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=122 Two of the program's graduate students will present talks at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (November 5-8, 2009). As part of the panel "Decoding Use: Broken and Failed, Localized and Expansive," Jared Grogan will deliver a talk entitled "Garbage, Gospel, and Gold: ... http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=116 http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=117   The first Rhetoric Reading Group Meeting of the Fall semester will take place at 3:30 PM, Friday, October 9. The location will be The Motor City Brewing Works (470 W. Canfield Street). Our text will be Collin Gifford Brooke’s Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media (Hampton Press, 2009). http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/composition/?p=115