Archive for August, 2008

Acceptance [CCCC 2009] (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on August 21, 2008 * Comments(3)

With pleasure, we invite you to participate in the 60th annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, which will be held in San Francisco, March 11-14, 2009. We are following the CCCC policy of allowing only one speaking role in the peer-reviewed concurrent sessions in order to maximize the participation of the […]

category: Gaming, Life, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology    

500 Essential Graphic Novels (Gene Kannenberg, Jr.)

Posted by on August 17, 2008 * Comments(6)

Including more than 350 authors and 400 artists, this lush volume contains an essential mix of some of the finest visually-stunning stories of our time. From politically-charged non-fiction sagas to imaginative fantasy tales, this ultimate guide has something to satisfy everyone’s taste. The first of its kind, this book focuses on each graphic novel separately, […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

BGSU McNair Summer Research Institute Luncheon (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on August 6, 2008 * Comments(0)

[During this summer, I worked as a Doctoral Graduate Assistant to BGSU’s Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, which started this year. McNair Scholars are first-generation, low-income students OR from underrepresented minorities planning on pursuing PhDs. McNair works with its students and gives them advanced scholarly opportunities as an undergraduate to better train them for […]

category: Life