​ N. Katherine Hayles is concerned that the increasing disconnect between digital media scholars and traditional (i.e. print-based) scholars will lead to significant losses in knowledge: Print-based scholars would become increasingly marginalized, unable to communicate not only with Digital Humanities colleagues but also with researchers in the social sciences and sciences, who routinely use digital…
In writing these blog posts, I find that I’m not doing the kind of simultaneous reading and quoting that I imagined I would be doing. Instead, I find myself doing free association, drawing in examples from memory that I’ve read over the past few years (or longer). Clearly, the brain (as a technology) is capable…
Williams, James D. “Counterstatement: Autobiography in Composition Scholarship.” Rev. of Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location, by Lisa Ede; Self-Development and College Writing, by Nick Tingle; and The End of Composition Studies, by David W. Smit. College English 68.2 (2005). 209-225. JSTOR. 8 April 2014. Williams here is very, very critical of…
Sánchez, Raúl. The Function of Theory in Composition Studies. Albany: State University of New York, 2005. Print. Sánchez’s critique of the hermeneutic tradition posits that theories of writing should themselves be theorized as works of writing.
