Posts Tagged ‘writing’

July 9th, 2009

We Are All Writers Now

Anne Trubek, Director of Composition at Oberlin, offers a compelling discussion of writing and online applications in this essay, “We Are All Writers Now.”
Take the “25 Things About Me” meme that raged around Facebook a few months
ago. This time-waster, as many saw it, is precisely the kind of brainstorming exercise I used to assign to [...]

March 10th, 2009

Remix as Research

If research involves gathering ideas, creating connections among those ideas, and figuring out how to present it all to a given audience at a given moment, then remix culture has a great deal to teach students about research and writing. Whether one works with video or with alphabetic text, the methods for doing research are [...]

January 28th, 2009

Steven Johnson on Research and Writing

Steven Johnson, author of six books including the recent The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the birth of America posts a short piece on his writing process. Johnson writes specifically about his usage of the program DevonThink, but even without using this program, we can generalize from his experience to [...]