Beyond becoming acquainted with an emerging area of attunement methodology and scholarship, my interest in arduino and microcontroller technology is pedagogical. Intertwined with the expressed goals of the Digital Writing and Research Lab, I aim to design a set of accessible and engaging tutorials and workshops for learning the complex...
Lesson Plan: Genre and Music
In Carolyn Miller's foundational text in Rhetorical Genre Studies, "Genre as Social Action," (1984) she asserts the utility in studying "homely discourses." Examining the quotidian genres we interact with on a daily basis does not "trivialize the study of genres," Miller states, but it actually "take[s] seriously the rhetoric in...
Workshop Recap: R and Twitter
In the first workshop of the fall semester, Lars Hinrichs brought his knowledge of English Language and Linguistics to the DWRL for an introduction to R and Twitter. While Twitter’s reputation certainly preceded itself, the workshop began with an introduction to R -- a necessary introduction for those of us...