Writing

Value and Circulation

preterite Writing

I asked yesterday, “why teach digital genres?” I do it — I incorporate Web pages into the essay assignments I give my first-year composition students — but yesterday, with a head full of introductory economics, I was having a hard time seeing teaching through any non-economic perspective. I’m feeling slightly less fuddled this morning.
Read more

Some Very Basic Assumptions

preterite Class (Meta), Writing

Some very basic assumptions. (And we all know what the problem with “assume” is. . . So there’s a good chance these may change. Still, they’re a starting point.)

First, class has to do with people. Computers are objects. This, at first glance, might suggest some reasons why comp folk haven’t talked much about the intersection between the two.
Read more