RhetNet: New Snapshots, New Net/Text

[Eric Crump <wleric@showme.missouri.edu>]

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New Snapshots
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"The Main Problem"                       "Grading: Power Vortex in the
 Fred Kemp                                Classroom"
                                          Eric Crump
What if someone said that writing
teachers, most of them, are not          Grading debates inevitable swirl 
really writers, that they tend to        to the heart of the evaluation 
shy away from the same challenges        system: a concentration of eval-
they ask students to face? What          uation power in a single person, 
if someone said that this lack of        the teacher. What if all efforts
engagement with the craft they           at distributing authority in the 
teach was the root of most               classroom are futile as long as 
pedagogical evils?                       this condition persists?

Fred so asserts.                         Eric so asserts.

* RhetNet Snapshots:
* http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/snapshots.html

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            RhetNet readers are always also RhetNet writers
            (if they want to be). Please don't take these
            texts lying down. Feel free to contribute your
            thoughts on the issues they suggest.          
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New Net/Text
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"The Main Problem: MBU-L --> RhetNet"

Fred Kemp's snapshot was originally posted to MBU-L@ttu.edu (Megabyte 
University). It provoked a lively discussion, including debate about the 
truth of his claim, musing about the nature of writing and the function 
of rules, as well as the usual tangents zipping off this way and that.

Nearly all of the MBU-L conversation is now available on RhetNet's web 
pages. 

http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/the_problem

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            RhetNet readers are always also RhetNet writers
            (did I say this already?). Please feel free to 
            add your bit to this collection of texts.

            Keep the conversation going!
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Reminder: Special Issue
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RhetNet will publish a special issue consisting of essays, articles, 
hypertexts, scribbles on the backs of napkins, and other interesting 
textual shapes pertaining to Richard Lanham's _The Electronic Word: 
Democracy, Technology, and the Arts_. 

The editors are coordinating this project with Cynthia Haynes, guest 
editor of _Pre/Text_'s special issue on virtual rhetorics. 

Calls for participation:

http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/ew_call.html
http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/virtual_rhetorics_call.html


Deadline for submissions: 
January 31, 1996

See also: http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~pretext/