For someone who has been in this program since the beginning, I have to admit I am still in a haze as to the specific procedures and names to call such. I feel a bit like a hiker who has made it to the crest of a coastal mountain range and is looking down on the fog cover the ocean.
You struggled to get up the backside of the mountains so that you could get to the ocean, but now you can't see it. You know it's under there and that you still have to make your way down the frontside of the mountains to get to it, which will not be a easy feat itself, before you get to the ocean where you will board a ship on yet another journey.
That's where I stand now. I am not so much The Wander above the Sea of Fog as I'm no German Romantic, but that image does come to mind too.
From this vantage, I see these vague outlines in the fog:
- I have assembled my committee
- Doug as chair and rhetorician and rhet tech expert
- Courtney for her WPA and linguistic justice expertise and interest
- Paul (Rogers) for his writing pedagogy and writing development interests
- I have started reading texts I am interested in
- Most notable:
- McNamara (lots of texts) - measures of cohesion in texts
- computational linguistics - corpus studies
- coherence & cohesion
- cohesion leads to cohesion
- present in measurable text features
- measured using Coh-Metrix program
- I wrote what I think is a proposal
- it still needs work - please feel free to read and comment on this file
- it still needs committee approval
- I have have established reading buckets
- Convergence of rhetoric & linguistics
- FYC program pedagogies & linguistic justice
- Writing Development & assessment
- [computer mediated writing instruction -- with focus on online]
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