RhetoricVille

A study reported in the current issue of Nature suggests that intelligence is linked to brain growth patterns in adolescence. According to one of the researchers, “It’s not that brainy children have more grey matter. The story of intelligence is in the trajectory of brain development.”In the study, researchers split children into three groups on […]

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WikiHome - codebook - JotSpot
“Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needs an update. But rather than do this alone, Professor Lessig is using this wiki to open the […]

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www.ajaxwrite.com
This is an online word processor — fast, free and easy to use. You don’t install anything. You don’t have to register to use it. It reads and edits all the major formats, so if you get a WordPerfect or OpenOffice or MSWord file and can’t open it because you don’t have the needed program […]

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I returned yesterday from the 4Cs (Conference on College Composition and Communication) in Chicago. It’s the fourth 4Cs I’ve attended in Chicago — all at the Palmer House. I’ve been to two or three other conferences in Chicago as well, always in the past traveling by car. This time we went by train. You can […]

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This blog hasn’t had a clear focus. Or even an unclear focus. That’s because I’ve been playing around, learning the software. In an essay draft, I would call it “throat-clearing,” the writing you do to get to your point. I generally cut the throat-clearing paragraphs, and advise my students to do so, but I […]

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