Interacting with computer technology in secondary schools

In this article I reflect on my teaching and scholarship with computers in secondary schools during the past 20 years. I chart how changing technology and changing expectations for technology shaped my teaching and student learning in the writing centers and classrooms where I have worked.     

"红色年代"——刘家琨的"都市写作"

“红色年代”是成都有名的酒吧，酒吧所在的大楼此前是烂尾楼，从烂尾楼到火红的“红色年代”，都市活力得到复兴。运作，而不是设计!成功的空间运作，源于刘家琨的“都市写作”。     

建筑评论何为?

文章通过对从华而不实的空论回到常识的状态、从无关痛痒的争论转向问题的实质、从单向度的独白步入对话的境界、从被动寄生的阐释变为创作的发现、从说明书式的介绍变为美的文本等问题的论述,从而阐明建筑评论事实上是种持有“问题意识”,“随心所欲而不逾矩”的写作行为。     

涉外文秘专业《实用文体写作》课程教学思考

为提高涉外文秘专业学生的文书写作能力,适应新时期企业对文秘岗位从业人员的要求,通过对社会企业调研数据分析,结合教学工作实际,阐述在实用文体写作课程的内容体系、教学手段、考核方法等方面的一些做法。     

“Growing Smarter Over Time”: An Emergence Model for Administrating a New Media Writing Studio

This article reports on efforts to create an administrative structure for learning and teaching multimodal composing that depends not on the leadership of a new media writing expert but on the collaboration of relative novices organized according to principles of emergent learning. Based on four years’ experience in a grant-funded program that supports new media composing in multiple disciplines, I report on the benefits of a bottom-up, emergent approach while raising questions about the long-term sustainability of such an approach. I conclude by describing efforts to create more top-down support for new media composing, while remaining committed to serving the teachers and students who are the real agents of change.     

听音乐、写小说、看电影 建筑之外话空间

文章通过讨论高品质的建筑,引申出建筑师在建筑之外的多种可能,以空间作为主线,把建筑师在听音乐、写小说和看电影过程中的体会与实践呈现出来,启发建筑师跨界的参与和讨论。     

金属制品国家标准中试验方法的书写问题

分析金属制品国标中反复弯曲试验及单向扭转试验方法的书写问题，并对此提出建议。     

一种多功能可擦写式LED点阵显示屏的研制

LED显示屏通常由计算机控制要显示的文字,但其硬件和使用成本都相对较高。设计并制作了一种多功能可擦写式LED点阵显示屏,系统采用STC11F16XE单片机作为主控芯片,用74LS245芯片与CD4515BC译码器组成显示驱动。实现了通过按键切换各种显示模式;利用光电传感器制作的光笔在LED点阵显示屏上可实现如点亮、划亮、反显、整屏擦除、笔画擦除、连写多字等显示功能,并且可以自动调节亮度和自动休眠。实验证明,利用该系统可以扩展成不同大小、内容可随时修改的LED显示屏,并且成本低,具有良好的推广价值。     

The influence of textese on adolescents’ perceptions of text message writers

Text messages are characterised by a casual language style, ‘textese’ (e.g., c u on thurs). This study investigated adolescents’ perceptions of the use of different levels of textese in digital messages which varied in their intended recipient (friend, teacher). Grade 8 students in Australia (N = 90, aged 13–14 years) each read six text messages purportedly written by a fellow student, and rated the extent to which they agreed (on a 7-point Likert scale) that the message writer was intelligent, paid attention to detail, used an appropriate writing style, and was friendly. Overall, participants rated message senders most favourably on all measures when they used no textese, and least favourably when they used high levels of textese. This pattern was even stronger when messages were addressed to teachers rather than same-aged friends. The findings suggest that adolescents are sensitive to both writing style and recipient when considering digital messages.     

Composition in the Dromosphere

Speed is one way to distinguish how we approach rhetorical situations within and outside of the academy. Texts and arguments move quickly in any rhetorical situation, and rhetoric and composition has begun to theorize ways to make sense of these speedy situations. Drawing on Paul Virilio's discussion of the dromosphere, our contemporary environment of speed, this essay continues that work by examining the work of two DJs: DJ Spooky and Girl Talk. The compositional methods of DJs have received a great deal of attention in computers and composition scholarship, and much of that work has focused on how DJs can help us rethink intellectual property. This essay examines DJs for a different purpose, in order to examine two approaches to the difficulties of speed: scholê and dromos. I discuss DJ Spooky's remix of the film The Birth of a Nation, and I apply Girl Talk's methods to provide my own mashup of that same film. This essay argues that the mashup, in all of its various forms, is a particularly useful example of dromological writing, writing that is attuned to the problem of speed.