Author Archives: Matthew Williams
Book Club, a 2011 retrospective
2011 was the year of my dissertation (which is almost done! really!). Way back in January, my fieldwork wrapped up and I began the long and arduous process of stepping back and thinking…what was that I just did? This process … Continue reading
The other “lost generation”
In a technological world in which all news is almost instantaneously old news, I have a feeling that what went down at UC Davis on Friday, November 18th will stay fresh in our minds for some time. For posterity, the … Continue reading
Explanations for what’s wrong with the economy, and our world.
Barely 20 minutes ago, Troy Davis was executed in the state of Georgia. Earlier this afternoon, Mike Konczal posted a rather thought-provoking pair of images that attempted to visually represent different interpretations of what is wrong with the economy as … Continue reading
And we’re live!
While I am still getting all the kinks out of the system, setting up the layout and all that stuff, welcome to the new home! Coming up in this space: – Thoughts, notes, and reflections from this fall’s group … Continue reading
Charts you don’t see very often
…until this direction in American society is reversed, there is only one way tuition will go in the foreseeable future: up.
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On that whole subsidy thing
…you cannot really meaningfully compare across universities this way because their internal structures vary so much. Directly comparing Ohio State to Minnesota to Washington on these figures doesn’t tell you much of anything at all.
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The reply to the WPA-L list that never made it…
Even if we had the funding and support to correct the labor issues our discipline faces, there are still many instructors who see their job as instructing students in producing shiny, polished, finished drafts. As long as this emphasis in product remains firmly entrenched within literacy education, plagiarism will be going no where.
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Composition, markets, and a random summer thought
…Our value in this sense is only made meaningful through the successful completion and bestowal of a grade (credential). Therefore, we can change the requirements of “good writing” to writing that produces social development and amelioration.
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Boys, Girls, and Experience in the Classroom
Dialogue is incredibly potent in terms of being able to open a productive space to work in simply because “difference” produces raw material to work with.
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A quote on my mind the past couple months…
…at no matter what risk.
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