Writing Studies

Взаимодействие культур и гибридизация языка

by Alexander Kravchenko

CROSSCULTURAL INTERACTION AND LANGUAGE HYBRIDIZATION

The role of language in mediating culture is... more CROSSCULTURAL INTERACTION AND LANGUAGE HYBRIDIZATION

The role of language in mediating culture is emphasized, and examples of language hybridization are given as an indication of ongoing changes in the Russian system of values.

Key words: language, culture, value system, language hybridization

Peer Feedback auf Papier und online im Vergleich - eine Reaktion auf Ellis (2011)

by Daniel Spielmann

My essay on "Song of Lawino"

by Mohammed Amine Belbachir

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In Okot Mbitek's "Song of Lawino", Lawino, the protagonist thinks Western culture is damaging to her Husband (non-westerners). Kippling, however, in his poem "The Whiteman's Burden", thinks otherwise. He thinks that it is the Whiteman's task to help civilize the non-Westerners.  Write an essay of about 500 words saying what your opinion is about each of these two views.


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Workshop A Analysis of Eye Movements and Writing: The Eye and Pen project

by Kathleen O'Brien Ramirez

Bergson and Derrida: A Question of Writing Time as Philosophy's Other

by Daniel Alipaz

Published in 'The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy - Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française,' Vol XIX, No 2 (2011) pp 96-120. This article can be viewed and uploaded for free on the journal's website's: http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/471/572

Following the 1988 publication of Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze, many contemporary critics such as Leonard Lawlor and... more Following the 1988 publication of Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze, many contemporary critics such as Leonard Lawlor and Paul Douglass have re-contextualized Bergson within poststructuralism. In so doing, Bergsonian theory enables us to readdress questions associated with concepts of temporality and their relation to language. In considering this re-appropriation, Suzanne Guerlac in Thinking in Time: an introduction to Henri Bergson (2006), asks why Bergson has never been considered in relation to Derrida, given that the two philosophers share fundamental concerns about time and writing. Following Derrida’s critique of Husserl in La Voix et le phénomène (1967), it is perhaps the case that many critics categorize Bergson as a phenomenologist. However, I aim to develop the argument that Guerlac instigates and show that Derrida’s critique of Husserl in fact establishes a close proximity with Bergson’s view that Western metaphysics suppresses time as durée. I will show how both Bergson and Derrida operate with the understanding of a particular rupture in the full presence of the present, an expansion of consciousness as a ‘now’ to include a constant deferral to memory. While this overlap establishes an affinity, I conclude by showing that it simultaneously marks a point of diffraction with regard to how both seek to methodologically embody such a concept of time.

Writing and Symbolism

by Anthony Bloor

Written for the NAWE conference on 'The Diversity of Teaching Writing' at Middlesex University and published in 'Writing in Education', 11, Spring 1997.

A paper that recommends an integrated approach to the teaching of writing skills and technological skills. The paper... more A paper that recommends an integrated approach to the teaching of writing skills and technological skills. The paper advocates a method that looks at writing and technology from the point of view of symbolism. The uploaded document is a scanned copy of the published version, taken from the journal "Writing in Education," 11, Spring 1997.

Dancers' Writing Skills Amid a Culture of Virtual Gratification

by Teresa Heiland

Proceedings of National Dance Education Organization: "Focus on Dance Education: Creativity, Innovation and 21st Century Skills," Oct 2024, 2010, Tempe, AZ.

Writing Ideology: Hybrid Symbols in a Commemorative Visitor Book in Israel

by Chaim Noy

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18(1): 62-81. (2008)

This article joins recent ethnographies of written documents which shed light on embedded practices and codes in and... more This article joins recent ethnographies of written documents which shed light on embedded practices and codes in and through which writing is produced and consumed. The article explores the linguistic ideology of writing through examining inscriptions made in a visitor book in a war commemoration museum in Jerusalem, Israel. These settings supply a dual ideological framework, fusing the modern ideologies of authenticity and national commemoration. Under attention are the physical affordances and circumstances of the visitor book and how they contribute to an “authentic” mode of commemoration-cum-participation via inscribing, where language ideology and national ideology reinforce each other. The analysis suggests that the category “writing” is reductionist, and that under embodied sensibilities it should better be viewed as an array of textual, para-textual, and non-textual visual signs that are fused into the production of materialized hybrid inscriptions. Further, the situatedness and corporeality of inscribing practices carries far reaching semiotic implications, including the transformation of the ontic state of “texts” into that of symbols, calling for the rematerialization of inscribing.

A Time to Speak, a Time to Act A Rhetorical Genre Analysis of a Novice Engineer's Calculated Risk Taking

by Natasha Artemeva

Effective Composition Instruction: What Does the Research Show?

by Carolyn R. Miller

Co-authored with Michael Carter and Ann M. Penrose, Unpublished report produced by North Carolina State University, 1998

Professional Communication Education in a Global Context: A Collaboration Between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, and Universidad de Quintana Roo, Mexico Jennifer Craig, Mya Poe, and María-Fernanda González Rojas Journal of Business and Technical Communication, July 2010; vol. 24, 3: pp. 267-295.

by Jennifer Craig

co-authored with Mya Poe and Maria-Fernanda Gonzalez-Rojas

Mentoring and Reporting Research: A Concern for Aesthetics

by Donna Alvermann

Co-authored with George G. Hruby

Who's Afraid of Alan Sokal?: Science Studies and Writing Programs

by Douglas Basford

SUNY Council on Writing 2011 annual conference at Binghamton, NY.

In the fifteen years since the physicist Alan Sokal famously duped Social Text into publishing his article parodying... more In the fifteen years since the physicist Alan Sokal famously duped Social Text into publishing his article parodying social constructivism, the battle lines of what C.P. Snow called the “two cultures” have both hardened and become more porous. In this charged atmosphere, interdisciplinarity has intensified, with historians, sociologists, and writing scholars encouraged to study, among many areas, the rhetoric and semiotics of scientific texts and the sociopolitical dynamics forming and/or contesting government science policy. Has this conversation about science migrated to composition classrooms? Largely it remains obscured (save in readings on environmentalism, technology, and disabilities), and the convergences of and tensions between the sciences, the social sciences, and the Humanities often go underexplored. This paper will assess the impact of science studies, in its many forms, on one writing program—not merely gauging the instructors’ comfort level with scientific concepts or awareness of the flashpoints and protagonists of the “science wars,” but more importantly examining curricula and pedagogies of both its composition courses and its institution’s uncoordinated WID courses for patterns of encounter with critical and developing methodologies—with an eye towards engendering conversation about science’s place in the Humanities, and vice versa, with writing courses as the proving grounds.

The" I-Thou" Relationship, and the Montaignian" Essai": Toward a Multicultural Rhetoric.

by Kevin LaGrandeur

The game of reading and writing: How video games reframe our understanding of literacy

by John Alberti

Instrumentos de Escritura en las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida: Estiletes y espátulas

by Javier Alonso

Mérida. Excavaciones Arqueológicas, 2006

Feixes lexicais e visões de mundo: Um estudo sobre corpus

by Vander Viana

Full reference:
Shepherd, T. M. G., Zyngier, S., & Viana, V. (2006). Feixes lexicais e visões de mundo: Um estudo sobre corpus. Matraga, 19, 125-140. Retrieved from http://www.pgletras.uerj.br/matraga/matraga19/matraga19a07.pdf

This research analyses lexical bundles (cf. Biber, Conrad and Cortes 2004), found in essays written by children in the... more This research analyses lexical bundles (cf. Biber, Conrad and Cortes 2004), found in essays written by children in the Brazilian 5th and 6th years (average age 12-14) from a rural and an urban community. The research objective was to identify possible profiles emerging from their writing in terms of their world views and their textual organization. To this end, two corpora were compiled consisting of 12,205 and 14,662 words each. From these same corpora, four-word lexical bundles were extracted and subsequently analyzed in terms of structure and function. The analyses reflect two different profiles. In contrast to the writing by the children from the rural area, those from the urban milieu failed to express a collective world view by means of repeated textual and functional patterns.

Writing In a Culture of Simulation

by Carolyn R. Miller

Published in The Semiotics of Writing: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on the Technology of Writing, edited by P. Coppock. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols: 253–279.

A Vitalist Perspective on Nature Journals

by David Grant

Incoerenze testuali e problemi di combinazione lessicale nella produzione scritta di studenti universitari: primi rilievi e proposte esplicative

by Simone Ciccolone

Ciccolone, Simone (in press), "Incoerenze testuali e problemi di combinazione lessicale nella produzione scritta di studenti universitari: primi rilievi e proposte esplicative" - In: Atti dell'XI Congresso Internazionale di Studi dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA). Bergamo, 9-11 giugno 2011 - Guerra, Perugia.

This paper will present the first results of an exploratory study on textual incoherence, focusing on two kinds of... more This paper will present the first results of an exploratory study on textual incoherence, focusing on two kinds of problems: (1) logical coherence problems due to incorrect use of connectives; (2) semantic coherence pro- blems and low informational efficiency due to inappropriate use of collocations or other problems connected to word selection. The cases are extracted from a corpus of short texts written by University students during a course on academic writing in Italian. The paper will briefly discuss the effects of these phenomena on the interpretability of texts and observe possible correlations with problems of reading literacy occurring in the corpus.