tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171783024631751708.post4599936969257142308..comments2023-09-18T07:35:59.991-05:00Comments on Planned Obsolescence: Random Notes from a CrankQuintilian B. Nastyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442277796099767409noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171783024631751708.post-70515496799541233102012-12-14T13:52:52.472-06:002012-12-14T13:52:52.472-06:00Thanks for the responses.
Here are some other co...Thanks for the responses. <br /><br />Here are some other complications about the Forbes article. <br /><br />"Good writing" aligns with the values, assumptions, ways of knowing, research methodologies, and styles of specific discourse communities. "Good" is a social construct. <br /><br />Academics need to do a better job of communicating their research to a wider community (the general public and legislators), however. <br /><br />Mike Rose should be lauded for his work on that front. <br /><br />The author of the Forbes seems unaware of the discipline and scholarship of rhetoric and professional/technical communication. Quintilian B. Nastyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442277796099767409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171783024631751708.post-20151000193550346602012-12-14T11:46:19.267-06:002012-12-14T11:46:19.267-06:00Q. I failed at using e-calendars a long time ago....Q. I failed at using e-calendars a long time ago. Long live the paper copy. As for the article, was this addendum in the article when you read it? I'm glad he put it in there, but it makes me sad. Also, yes, very biased for top tier schools. He should come see what goes on in a CC classroom. :)<br /><br />Fellow cranky-pants!<br /><br /><br />[Note: commenter dcmadden below points out that composition professors in general do try to help their students avoid the swampy prose I'm talking about here. Fair enough. Thus, in college students are getting mixed messages about writing: the one or two composition professors they might encounter in four years try to teach them to write crisp, lively prose, and with rare exception all other humanities and social science professors in the rest of their studies--including full professors of literature--encourage them to ape the academic version of the Official Style, which these professors are churning out themselves in their "research."]Sandy Longhornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04735445958970512617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171783024631751708.post-57996153171722448392012-12-14T10:59:07.162-06:002012-12-14T10:59:07.162-06:00I also do wall calendars and notebooks. None of th...I also do wall calendars and notebooks. None of that not-so-new-anymore-fangled electronic nonsense for me.<br /><br />Great top 20 album list, btw.<br /><br />That Forbes article: annoying in a number of ways. 1) As you pointed out, he speaks from the point of view of an Ivy Leaguer, and I am so very sick and tired of people talking about that small handful of schools as representing all of Higher Ed. 2) Peter Elbow? Wow, there's an amazing new discovery. Dude, please. Things I'm Very Sick and Tired of Part 2 would be people who think they alone know the secret to good writing that has eluded all those ineffectual intellectuals. 3) Some other stuff, but that's enough of a rant. If I go on any longer I'll have to get my own blog. Oh, wait...Babe Runnerhttp://electronwoman.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com