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/ 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. Below, in four-parts, I attempt to share that conversation, but mostly John’s part, his words. As engaging as Snow Fall is, so, too, are the author’s thoughts about the project. While we chatted, his comments struck me as a reader, a writer, and a teacher. At times, while he was…
Author: Lindsey Harding
Lindsey Harding
Lindsey Harding graduated from the University of Georgia in May 2015 with her Ph.D. in English. She is now the Assistant Director of the Writing Intensive Program at UGA. Her research and writing interests include composition and rhetoric, creative writing, and digital humanities. In May 2011, she graduated from Sewanee University’s School of Letters with her M.F.A. in creative writing. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University in 2004. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and three small children.
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. These texts go beyond the alphabet and beyond the conventions of print. They are hypertextual and multimodal. We think they are elegant and engaging. We think they are worth sharing and thinking about. With this new feature, we hope to draw more attention to published work that stretches traditional notions of academic…
I want to share a panel conversation I listened to and tweeted about from this year’s International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) Conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 2-5. The panel was called SoTL in the Humanities and the Arts: Common Ground and Relevant Differences. Nancy Chick (Vanderbuilt University) served as the moderator, and Philip M. Motley (Elon University), Stephen Bloch-Shulman (Elon University), Deb Currier (Western Washington University), and Eduardo Gregori (University of Wisconsin – Marathon County) sat on the panel. The questions the panel set out to discuss were big ones like these: What…
I discovered digital rhetoric in my second semester of coursework for my Ph.D. program at UGA, and I fell hard into it. Since then, I’ve written a paper on Pinterest and maternal ethos, designed an entire composition class around digital media, worked with at least five programming languages, and composed a multimodal pseudo-history of baby pictures. You get the idea. Now my teaching, writing, and research interests all seem to revolve around digital rhetoric, and I want to be part of the conversations happening in the field and help initiate, continue, and expand them. The more we talk about what…