Roommate Needed (great writing sample!)

$900 Fenway Apartment (Fenway) 

 Hey there. You look like the type of person that wants to live with us. Are you a person? Do you like apartments? Do you like living with three dudes with great hair? You're fucking right you do. This apartment is big as tits. Its got two floors...."wait did he just say?"...yeah TWO FUCKING FLOORS. Big ass kitchen if you're into that stuff. I got a question you should ask yourself, do you like pooping? Well good thing you do because we have 2.5 goddamn baths bitch! that means 3 toilets, in the words of Lil Wayne you can "shit all daaayyyy". Speaking of Lil Wayne, the two bedrooms are huge! Unfortunately, you won't have a bedroom to yourself! I know! It sucks! Kind of! But not really because you get to live in the same room as one of us and we fucking ROCK. You like couches? We got two, eat it. You like futons? We got two of those motherfuckeerrrrrrr. Futons like you read about. Let me guess, you cross me as the type of person that has a lot of clothes and shoes. Well good thing we have closets all over the place. You like walking into things? These are WALK IN CLOSETS. One in each bedroom baby! Ain't no thang. Just a couple of O.G.'s trying to find a roommate who wants to hang out with some awesome looking men, thats right we're men, well at least I am, not much of a man, but a man. You like sloths? SO DO WE. We can't own one, nobody can, but we can imagine how awesome it would be to have A FUCKING SLOTH IN THIS AWESOME FUCKING APARTMENT. Yeah its sweet. No pets though. There's a communal rooftop deck which means if we have a semi hot neighbor we can watch her over the four foot fence that separates us from normal people. You like Perrier water? That sucks, we piss in perrier, perrier in the toilets, champagne in the faucets. We ball. Groceries are fun, good thing there is shaw's supermarket less than 500 yards away thats 5 football fields if you're into math. We have a Nintendo 64, wanna Mario Kart? I'll see you on Rainbow Road bitch. See we lead pretty simple lives. We eat steak, we drink whiskey, we enjoy the occasional cigar. One of those is a lie, actually two, maybe three I'm not really sure. I can't smoke, it makes me cough, my friend can't eat steak I think he caught the gay, and the last kid doesn't drink because we are "underage" (*finger quotes) but rules were made to be broken, just like bones. You know what they say, when in Kiev, do as the Kievans do. Or something along those lines. We appreciate your time and we're glad you read this because we need a roommate really bad and whatnot.

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/roo/3701954817.html

New Journals to Publish

Literacy in Composition Studies

The Writing Instructor

Archiving the Literacy Narratives of Our Times

Archiving the Literacy Narratives of Our Times

An Interview with Dr. Cynthia Selfe and Dr. H. Lewis Ulman

By Megan Adams, Bowling Green State University

Books for Upper Level Writing Research Courses

Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies by Lee Nickoson, Mary P Sheridan

An essential reference for students and scholars exploring the methods and methodologies of writing research.

What does it mean to research writing today? What are the practical and theoretical issues researchers face when approaching writing as they do? What are the gains or limitations of applying particular methods, and what might researchers be overlooking? These questions and more are answered by the writing research field’s leading scholars in Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies.

Editors Nickoson and Sheridan gather twenty chapters from leaders in writing research, spanning topics from ethical considerations for researchers, quantitative methods, and activity analysis to interviewing and communitybased and Internet research. While each chapter addresses a different subject, the volume as a whole covers the range of methodologies, technologies, and approaches—both old and new—that writing researchers use, and examines the ways in which contemporary writing research is understood, practiced, and represented. An essential reference for experienced researchers and an invaluable tool to help novices understand research methods and methodologies, Writing Studies Research in Practice includes established methods and knowledge while addressing the contemporary issues, interests, and concerns faced by writing researchers today.

Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research by Katrina Powell & Pamela Takayoshi

 Research pratices-much like literacy and writing themselves- are shaped by and responsive to context. Contemporary research methodologists have increasingly called upon researchers to be explicitly and systematically reflexive about their practices. As writing researchers have begun untangling the complexities of ethical reserch practice, new practices have developed and new issues have arisen. This volume contributes to the continuing examination and development of ethically responsible, self-reflective, and systematic research on writing. With a look toward the ways diffractive methodology can inform our self-reflexitivity, this volume highlights particular ways of looking back and forward, as ways to complicate our practices in the moment. This text inculdes chapters focused on theories of research, research and institutional practices and reflexive/diffractive research practices.

On Digital Literacy Narratives

Issue of Computers and Composition online that has a lot on digital literacy narratives.

Digital Storytelling in the Composition Classroom: Addressing the Challenges by Ghanashyam Sharma

Archiving the Literacy Narratives of Our TimesAn Interview with Dr. Cynthia Selfe and Dr. H. Lewis Ulman By Megan Adams, Bowling Green State University

Writing Commons

Welcome to Writing Commons, the open-education home for writers. Our primary goal is to provide the resources college students need to improve their writing, research, and critical thinking. We believe learning materials should be free for all students and teachers.

FYS

Where does food come from? What's for dinner?

Take a meal and find out where it came from.

Materials: King Corn and Barbara Kingsolver
Project:

Book of Choice (cod, tomato, etc.)

Where does our food come from? (Fast Food Nation)

What is what we're eating doing to us? (?)

Units:

1. What's for dinner?
2. Where does dinner come from? (Fast Food Nation and Corn King)
3. What is dinner doing to or for us?
4. What else might we eat for dinner?

Find a list of other documentaries about food.
Find an academic article from different fields about each of these issues (perhaps enlist Carol Cummings?).

Videos on Professional Writing

Here is a collection of the video lecture-tutorials mentioned in my posts. (All are between 9 and 15 minutes long.) I’ll be adding links to the sample documents that appear in those lecture-tutorials. You can also retrieve them on the Docs page.