Yet another repost from my old blog – one day I’ll hopefully have the lot of my thoughts in the same place.

Now here is a weblog on rhetoric and commuication that takes the verbose potential that I see i weblogs to the fullest extent I have seen this far. The blogger, a PhD researcher, has quite a theoretically solid interrest in teaching composition with commuication technology, it seems. The considerations here are combined with a sociological/socio-political view on teaching and education.
I found his site searching for thouhts on ownership of texts published digitally in a writing pedagogy framework.
This post has some good views and thoughts on that. But man, the verbosity…

Originally posted 25.11.2003

Mark Bernstein internet writer, storyteller and probably a lot more has some good pointers for writing to the web.
I guess the general message is to express all facets of the perosn you are when writing to the living web. I am trying to get that idea aligned/combined with writing in academia. Here your personality is made out of the assignments you turn in, and even if you turn very personal papers in all the time, the identity that most people convey through writing is limited to their professional or educational contexts. Yes, the increase in text communication generally may result in an increase of expressing yourself through writing, but that writing is not public in the same way as academic writing. So what I am pithcing at here and in my thesis is that teaching writing could benefit from using web logs as a way to get students to explore their writing identities to a fuller extent, merging the identities of different writing contexts.

Originally posted 8.12.2003