The December (and First!) Webtext of the Month

by Lindsey Harding December 5, 2013 Webtext-of-the-Month
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Title: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
Author: John Branch
Publication: The New York Times
Publication date: December 20, 2012
Experience here: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek
Image Source: The New York Times
In late October, on a sunny but chilly Thursday afternoon, I called John Branch to talk about Snow Fall, our first DRC Webtext of the Month.  

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Celebrate Webtexts with Us

by Lindsey Harding December 3, 2013 Webtext-of-the-Month

DRC’s Webtext of the Month seeks to recognize composition innovation online. On this new page and site feature, you will find a monthly celebration of webtexts, work that embraces the affordances of digital technology and digital media to tell stories, make arguments, express ideas, and communicate meaning anew.  

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Crowdsourcing Disciplinary Data: the process of building the Writing Studies Tree

by benmiller314 November 27, 2013 Blog Carnivals
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by Benjamin Miller, Amanda Licastro, and Jill Belli
 
We are the principal designers of the Writing Studies Tree (WST), a project we hope you’ve heard about since our launch at the 2012 CCCC in St. Louis. Briefly, the WST is an open-access site for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing “academic genealogies”: the often-invisible systems of affiliation and influence formed as individuals write dissertations, train as teachers, and study and research together throughout their careers.

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Hey, We’re Trending! But, What are We Saying?: Analyzing Digital Conversations from 2013 #cwcon

by Laura Van Ett and Laura Gonzales November 25, 2013 Blog Carnivals
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In Liza Pott’s Digital Rhetoric class at Michigan State University, we were assigned a “Tracing Digital Events” project, with the objective of learning “how to trace events in digital spaces, broadening [our] understanding of these technologies, participants, organizations, and genres” (Potts, WRA 415 assignment sheet).

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Visualization as sensemaking: experiences from approaching a large dataset

by Jon Olav H. Eikenes November 22, 2013 Blog Carnivals
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As a designer, I have previously carried out a range of projects that have involved some sort of data visualization. However, most often the clients I have been working with have given me relatively small datasets or information that was more or less ready for visualization.

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