Katt Blackwell-Starnes (smartykatt)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

I am a doctoral candidate in rhetoric just beginning research on my dissertation. I will be working with social bookmarking and the teaching of academic research at the post-secondary level. I am a techno-guru who spends a good bit of free time training my colleagues to use new medias.

I am interested in social media,rhetoric,reader response theory,social bookmarking,web 2.0,digital media,podcasting,phd,graduate school,writing,research,reading. Books: Mrs. Dalloway,Rhetoric of Rhetoric,The Second Sex,Man Cannot Speak For Her,Orlando.

I use Diigo because I have tried many of the social bookmarking sites and Diigo is the only one that presents a useful interface for academic research. I love the comment and note feature; it saves me a considerable amount of printing and hand annotating my work.

Member since May 20, 2009, follows 35 people, 5 public groups, 232 public bookmarks (234 total).

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Deconstructing Rhetoric on 2009-11-28
Bedford/St. Martin's - The Bedford Bibliography on 2009-11-21
- Connors, Robert J., Lisa S. Ede, and Andrea A. Lunsford, eds. Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1984.
Bedford/St. Martin's - The Bedford Bibliography on 2009-11-21
- - Katt Blackwell-Starnes on 2009-11-20
    
    Seven references specific to teaching argument
- Emmel, Barbara, Paula Resch, and Deborah Tenney, eds. Argument Revisited, Argument Redefined: Negotiating Meaning in the Composition Classroom. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996.
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- - Fahnestock, Jeanne, and Marie Secor. "Teaching Argument: A Theory of Types." CCC 34 (February 1983): 20–30. Rpt. in Corbett, Myers, and Tate
  - Gage, John T. "Teaching the Enthymeme: Invention and Arrangement." Rhetoric Review 2 (September 1983): 38–50.
  - Kneupper, Charles W. "Teaching Argument: An Introduction to the Toulmin Model." CCC 29 (October 1978): 237–41.
Bedford/St. Martin's - The Bedford Bibliography on 2009-11-21
- Crowley, Sharon. "Literature and Composition: Not Separate but Certainly Unequal." Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays
- Crowley, Sharon. "Literature and Composition: Not Separate but Certainly Unequal." Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays
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- - Horner, Winifred Bryan, ed. Composition and Literature: Bridging the Gap. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1983.
  - Lanham, Richard A. Literacy and the Survival of Humanism. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1983.
  - Lindemann, Erika, and Gary Tate. "Two Views on the Use of Literature in Composition." CE 55 (March 1993): 311–21.
  - Lindemann, Erika, and Gary Tate. "Two Views on the Use of Literature in Composition." CE 55 (March 1993): 311–21.
  - Petrosky, Anthony R. "From Story to Essay: Reading and Writing." CCC 33 (February 1982): 19–36.
  - Steinberg, Erwin R., Michael Gamer, Erika Lindemann, Gary Tate, and Jane Peterson. "Symposium: Literature in the Composition Classroom." CE 57 (March 1995): 265–318.
Who Killed Annabel Lee? Writing about Literature in the Composition Classro... on 2009-11-21
- his article focuses on writing about literature in the composition classroom. Few issues in composition pedagogy invite more debate, because few issues speak so directly to who teaches composition and to why it is taught. On the one hand, teachers trained in literature continue to make up the largest source of staffing for first-year composition courses and naturally they want to bring their particular expertise to the writing classroom. Also, as many historians of the discipline have pointed out, from as far back as the rise of the English department in the early twentieth century, when first-year programs began to move their students away from the study of classical rhetoric and into an engagement with literature in the vernacular, English teachers have longed to interest their students in the best and most exciting writing in the postclassical tradition. On the other hand, the reemergence of rhetoric and the refocusing of first-year writing on the growing discipline of composition in the second half of the twentieth century have thrown down the challenge of pragmatics.
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Who Killed Annabel Lee? Writing about Literature in the Composition Classro... on 2009-11-21
Undergraduate Writing Skills; Or, Whatever Happened to Basic Grammar? on 2009-11-21
- Presents an article on the deteriorating quality of the writing skills of undergraduate college students. Topics taught to freshman students in a freshman writing program; Difficulty in conveying rhetoric to students due to their lack of understanding of basic English tenets; Impact of the lack of basic writing skills on teaching.
Freshman composition: No place for literature on 2009-11-21
- Discusses the role of literature in a first-year college writing course. Rejecting the assumption that first-year writing courses serve as a remedy for poor training in high school; Focus on consuming texts in literature-based courses; Humanistic content in curriculum; Limited usefulness of examining literary language in a writing course; Training programs for graduate students; More.
A place for literature in freshman composition on 2009-11-21
- Discusses the role of literature in first-year college writing courses. Minimal presence of literature in writing programs; Replacing literature with rhetoric; Loss of valuable words and concepts; Focus on academic discourse; Interest in shaping and fitting students to perform their appointed tasks; Conversations with the outside world; More.
A comment on `Freshman composition: No place for literature' and `A place f... on 2009-11-21
- Comments on the arguments raised by Erika Lindemann and Gary Tate on their articles `Freshman Composition: No Place for Literature' and `A Place for Literature in Freshman Composition' appearing in the periodical `College English'. Criticisms on the use of style and imagination in teaching composition; Includes reply by Gary Tate on the teaching of freshmen composition.

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