Procrastadabbler

I revisit the Pew Internet and American Life report on Youth and Writing. It was published in the spring, I believe, and I read it quickly back then, but just recently I dug into it more, and have found some things that I need to think about more and question. There is a difference between [...]

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I read the NYTimes online. Every morning, I receive an email with selected headlines (I selected the categories when I subscribed). Some mornings I scan the headlines and don’t find too much of interest. It could be my mood, or the news itself. On other days, I find quite a bit that I want to [...]

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Much of my summer has been taken up by the Genesee Valley Writing Project, but I did manage to fit a few books in.
Micromessaging by Stephen Young. I read this at the beginning of the summer as part of the Fisher diversity program. It’s really conversation analysis (Sacks, Schegloff) taken into the corporate world. But [...]

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One article is about the health impact of worms/parasites in African nations and how inexpensively this devastating health problem could be addressed if only some attention were turned that way. I’m sure the issues of delivering aid to the afflicted are much more complex that I could ever imagine (graft, bureaucracy, etc), but nonetheless, the [...]

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I desperately wanted something totally unrelated to work to read. I have a stack of books next to my favorite chair. One is Patricia Williamses book, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, one is Reed-Danahay’s Auto/Ethnography, and one is Barton & Hamilton’s Local Literacies. All good reads, but all are related to my research. And [...]

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