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Insignificant Wranglings
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Joe, They Don’t Deserve Ya
The Red Sox are down 3-2, with an aged warrior and a dead-armed, quasi-rookie pitching the next two games, and I don’t think I’ve ever been happier as a baseball fan. Well, o.k., there was 2004–that was sweet. But this … Continue reading
Review Writing for Amazon
Today we want to look at a few Amazon.com book reviews for Tapscott and Williams’ Wikinomics in order to generate a sense for what distinctive features good reviews contain. Donald Mitchell [April 6th, 2007] Bradley Gessler [January 15, 2007] M … Continue reading
MLA citation
Using the MLA guidelines provided by Purdue’s OWL lab, please construct a MLA works cited list for the following material: The Henry Jenkins reading from the coursepack (book title: Convergence Culture). The Stephen Johnson reading from the coursepack. (article title: … Continue reading
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Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near
I’ve put off reading this book for awhile, since I find it so difficult to talk about. I find Kurzweil’s work fascinating and dangerous, stimulating and irresponsible. I know he’s coming to come up in my dissertation, opposite and alongside … Continue reading
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Crash Course on Academic Writing
I like to frame academic research by looking at Kenneth Burke’s famous passage on the unending conversation of humankind. I also want to discuss three terms from classical rhetoric: ethos, pathos, and logos. logos Driven Unlike your blog writing, which … Continue reading
Reputation as Ethos for the Responsible Netizen
I picked up the quizercise from Karl Stolley (who, I am pretty sure, just adapted Janice Lauer’s “writing opportunity”): every Monday, before we begin discussing the week’s readings, I ask students some kind of question that calls on them to … Continue reading
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A New Dark Age?
Argh. Me tired. Baby cry. Dissertation hard. Job market taxing. I wanted to take some time, gather what brain power I could, and point to an interesting post over at the Long Now Fondation on the New York Times’ decision … Continue reading
My New Homepage Ate My Blogger Design. Sort of.
marccsantos.com got a new look today. I wanted something minimalist and clean before I head out on the job market. The design corresponds to the visual design of my other job materials (CV, cover letter, dissertation summary). The face-lift isn’t … Continue reading
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Wii and Lightsabers.. so why am I so nervous?
Mrxk shot me an email today with the subject: “End of Civilization.” The link, of course, was to the announcement that the Force Unleashed was porting to the Wii. I should be really excited. But I’m not. Let me explain. … Continue reading
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