I teach professional writing at Northern Arizona University. This blog represents my academic background and personal interests in composing -how we use writing in socio-cultural spaces to make meaning and to actively participate in the world. It also documents my interests in cultivating a sense of place through photography and poetry.

Community Activism in the Classroom. Knoblauch, CH and Lil Brannon. Critical Teaching and the Idea of Literacy.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Wysocki, Ann Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Utah State University Press, 2004. Just because I add in a component whe.

Of trial and error, and a ton. Of room for growth and development.

Samuels, Re-Inventing the Modern University. Samuels advocates for placing WAC at intellectual center in universities, emphasizing its cultural and historical elements.

Sherry Turkle edits a delightful, moving anthology that puts objects and their human relations front and center. I like this book because from a rhetorical perspective, the chapters resonate. The stories authors tell, the epigraphs Turkle chose to accompany each chapter, and the insig.

When we told people that we were moving to China with our cat, this was the funniest response that we got. Monday, July 7, 2008. And then we came to the end. We survived our 36 hour trip home. I have no idea wh.