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History of the English Language - The WAC Clearinghouse
wac.colostate.edu
#teamrhetoric #rhetcomp
New article out (co-written with Mijanur Rahman) in a special issue of Across the Disciplines on Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. It’s a great issue with great articles by great scholars: wac.colostate.edu/atd/special/...
New article out (co-written with Mijanur Rahman) in a special issue of Across the Disciplines on Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. It’s a great issue with great articles by great scholars: wac.colostate.edu/atd/special/...
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How I feel editing a paper from a pristine APA to a ramshackle MLA #academicproblems
January 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
How I feel editing a paper from a pristine APA to a ramshackle MLA #academicproblems
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Want to experiment with running small LLM models on your laptop for more privacy, reduced environmental impact, and for free? Ollama + OpenWebUI is a user friendly, open source ways to do that. Check out Brandon Dorman's post on how to get started: skillsandstandards.substack.com/p/installing...
Installing OpenWebUI
Local AI that looks nice
skillsandstandards.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Want to experiment with running small LLM models on your laptop for more privacy, reduced environmental impact, and for free? Ollama + OpenWebUI is a user friendly, open source ways to do that. Check out Brandon Dorman's post on how to get started: skillsandstandards.substack.com/p/installing...
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The @aclu.org's Roadmap for Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Under a Trump Administration.
www.aclu.org/publications...
www.aclu.org/publications...
The Trump Memos Compilation | American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU's Roadmap for Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Under a Trump Administration. Return to All Memos >>
www.aclu.org
January 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The @aclu.org's Roadmap for Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Under a Trump Administration.
www.aclu.org/publications...
www.aclu.org/publications...
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The most 21st century Shakespeare play is Othello, a story about a middle manager whose response to a black man getting promoted ahead of him is to burn literally everyone and everything around him to the ground.
January 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The most 21st century Shakespeare play is Othello, a story about a middle manager whose response to a black man getting promoted ahead of him is to burn literally everyone and everything around him to the ground.
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Going to #MLA2025? Make sure to catch our very own, Dr. Lorena Gauthereau, and our colleagues Dr. Elena Foulis and Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq on Fri. for 325 Code Switch: Digital Humanities of Peoples and Languages on Occupied Lands
#usLdh #digitalhumanities #humanidadesdigitales #archives #archivos
#usLdh #digitalhumanities #humanidadesdigitales #archives #archivos
January 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Going to #MLA2025? Make sure to catch our very own, Dr. Lorena Gauthereau, and our colleagues Dr. Elena Foulis and Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq on Fri. for 325 Code Switch: Digital Humanities of Peoples and Languages on Occupied Lands
#usLdh #digitalhumanities #humanidadesdigitales #archives #archivos
#usLdh #digitalhumanities #humanidadesdigitales #archives #archivos
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i am once again tapping the Benjamin sign, re: trump's expansionist fantasies
January 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
i am once again tapping the Benjamin sign, re: trump's expansionist fantasies
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All true and totally grim
This is a really good essay from Johns Hopkins professor Francois Furstenberg about universities, which are under threat from right-wing attacks but which have no credibility as defenders of democracy, since they don't practice democracy internally.
prospect.org/education/20...
prospect.org/education/20...
Universities and the Coming Storm
It’s difficult for colleges to defend democracy if they aren’t run democratically.
prospect.org
January 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
All true and totally grim
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A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine
A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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We talk about not wanting students to use Gen AI in their assignments, but how many email interactions are we now getting from students that are Gen AI?
A tip-off seems to be the increase in length.
A tip-off seems to be the increase in length.
January 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We talk about not wanting students to use Gen AI in their assignments, but how many email interactions are we now getting from students that are Gen AI?
A tip-off seems to be the increase in length.
A tip-off seems to be the increase in length.
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Any rhetoric and writing studies folks gonna be at #MLA25? Let us know what you’re presenting! #TeamRhetoric
January 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Any rhetoric and writing studies folks gonna be at #MLA25? Let us know what you’re presenting! #TeamRhetoric
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Thrilled to announce our newest collection collection! If you’re a #writing teacher concerned about #toxicRhetoric, this book is for you! #teamRhetoric #writingandrhetoric #compositionstudies #teachingwriting
www.peterlang.com/document/144...
www.peterlang.com/document/144...
Peter Lang Verlag - Confronting Toxic Rhetoric
Confronting Toxic Rhetoric contributes to the extant scholarship on toxic rhetoric, specifically the negative and extreme political discourse ...
www.peterlang.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Thrilled to announce our newest collection collection! If you’re a #writing teacher concerned about #toxicRhetoric, this book is for you! #teamRhetoric #writingandrhetoric #compositionstudies #teachingwriting
www.peterlang.com/document/144...
www.peterlang.com/document/144...
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Just a reminder that our book on Humanities Data Analysis is OA and freely available from: www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org
December 13, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Just a reminder that our book on Humanities Data Analysis is OA and freely available from: www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org
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“If you research government agencies, major institutions, and well-known [figures], you are much more likely to work with digitized text sources. If not, your project may not utilize many digitized primary sources at all…”
Really appreciate the piece’s nuance. (h/t to @kcrowe.bsky.social)
Really appreciate the piece’s nuance. (h/t to @kcrowe.bsky.social)
to share with your friends and colleagues if necessary
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 29, 2024 at 4:54 PM
“If you research government agencies, major institutions, and well-known [figures], you are much more likely to work with digitized text sources. If not, your project may not utilize many digitized primary sources at all…”
Really appreciate the piece’s nuance. (h/t to @kcrowe.bsky.social)
Really appreciate the piece’s nuance. (h/t to @kcrowe.bsky.social)
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There is a lot to learn from this study--worth a read! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia
We explore how socio-economic background shapes academia, collecting the largest dataset of U.S. academics’ backgrounds and research output. Individuals from po
papers.ssrn.com
December 30, 2024 at 5:57 PM
There is a lot to learn from this study--worth a read! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#teamrhetoric #rhetcomp
New article out (co-written with Mijanur Rahman) in a special issue of Across the Disciplines on Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. It’s a great issue with great articles by great scholars: wac.colostate.edu/atd/special/...
New article out (co-written with Mijanur Rahman) in a special issue of Across the Disciplines on Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. It’s a great issue with great articles by great scholars: wac.colostate.edu/atd/special/...
History of the English Language - The WAC Clearinghouse
wac.colostate.edu
December 29, 2024 at 9:51 PM
#teamrhetoric #rhetcomp
New article out (co-written with Mijanur Rahman) in a special issue of Across the Disciplines on Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. It’s a great issue with great articles by great scholars: wac.colostate.edu/atd/special/...
New article out (co-written with Mijanur Rahman) in a special issue of Across the Disciplines on Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. It’s a great issue with great articles by great scholars: wac.colostate.edu/atd/special/...
The Humanities and SS need to write clearer and i say this as an invester member of the community. This article points out what we all know is a failure across the disciplines: www.economist.com/science-and-...
Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
We analyse two centuries of scholarly work
www.economist.com
December 28, 2024 at 2:39 PM
The Humanities and SS need to write clearer and i say this as an invester member of the community. This article points out what we all know is a failure across the disciplines: www.economist.com/science-and-...
George Lakoff putting together a book club to talk about rhe political mind.
www.theframelab.org/2025-dont-th...
www.theframelab.org/2025-dont-th...
2025: Don't Think of a Book Club
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What can Democrats say or do to win back powe...
www.theframelab.org
December 28, 2024 at 2:37 PM
George Lakoff putting together a book club to talk about rhe political mind.
www.theframelab.org/2025-dont-th...
www.theframelab.org/2025-dont-th...
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Feel like I should re-up this periodically.
ChatGPT Should Not Exist
It Isn’t Just Bias and Threats to Creative Livelihoods. Generative AI Is Built on Nihilism. Its Real Product Is Despair.
davidgolumbia.medium.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Feel like I should re-up this periodically.
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Join the Team Rhetoric feed! Like and pin it to your main feeds. And fill out this form to be added to the feed: bit.ly/bsky-rhetoric
Find the Rhetoric & Writing Studies starter pack by @katjathieme.bsky.social at go.bsky.app/SCyxbJN
Find the Rhetoric & Writing Studies starter pack by @katjathieme.bsky.social at go.bsky.app/SCyxbJN
Team Rhetoric & Composition Bluesky Feed
Find all the rhetoric, composition, and writing studies scholars in the vast blue sky. Fill out the form to be added to the feed. And make sure to follow the Team Rhetoric feed to see what everyone is...
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November 11, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Join the Team Rhetoric feed! Like and pin it to your main feeds. And fill out this form to be added to the feed: bit.ly/bsky-rhetoric
Find the Rhetoric & Writing Studies starter pack by @katjathieme.bsky.social at go.bsky.app/SCyxbJN
Find the Rhetoric & Writing Studies starter pack by @katjathieme.bsky.social at go.bsky.app/SCyxbJN
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Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida
Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida
It came about through sustained contact with native Spanish speakers who directly translated phrases from Spanish into English, a form of linguistic borrowing called ‘calques.’
theconversation.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida
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Generative AI appears to be the newest tool to assist with learning, such as calculators, spell checkers and translators
How are students using AI?
Generative AI appears to be the newest tool to assist with learning, such as calculators, spell checkers and translators.
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Generative AI appears to be the newest tool to assist with learning, such as calculators, spell checkers and translators