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Poignant question, good discussion in the comments.
Here's what I do. It's geared to my own beliefs and abilities while teaching. Other methods work for other people. 1/
#PublicPedagogy #WritingStudies #CdnWrds
Here's what I do. It's geared to my own beliefs and abilities while teaching. Other methods work for other people. 1/
#PublicPedagogy #WritingStudies #CdnWrds
These days, reading drafts and commenting on them is time- and energy-consuming for me. There's burnout and loss of ability to focus at play. Also too much time sitting with screens looking at texts. So, I have to start from the premise that it costs me something to agree. 2/
My sense of equity in teaching dictates that if I agree to do it for one student, I have to present it as an offer for the other students as well. Not everyone thinks that way, others reward the initiative displayed by the students who request it. That's not my way, I guess. 3/
“Can we please have one area of intelligence where there is no thinking?”
The conversation is about this piece by the way. It discusses the draft paper that was part of Timnit Gebru’s exit from Google.
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Gonna make a thread of some of these. Because it's fun. And also because #writingstudies.
#cdnwrds #genrestudies #teamrhetoric #rhetcomp
#cdnwrds #genrestudies #teamrhetoric #rhetcomp
#WritingStudies is a an interesting topic (is it not @Katja_Thieme?), so here's a fun personal observation about writing.
I have been going with my daily reminders for more than a year. By consequence, I must have written approximately 400 reminders. 1/
I have been going with my daily reminders for more than a year. By consequence, I must have written approximately 400 reminders. 1/
Added to each reminder is an "Also" - something I think it is worth reflecting on on that particular day - or just something worth hearing in general. The reminder is verbatim stable but the also varies wildly from day to day. 2/
And here's the fun thing: In the overwhelming majority of cases I haven't the foggiest notion what is about to be today's "Also" when I start to write the reminder. It seems I can only come up with it after having typed "This is your daily reminder that you have ... etc". 3/
This point appears to be correct.
I’m going to line up my favourite comments here.
You know how much I like using a direct letter format on Twitter. And a parody that channels the parodied’s sentence structure back at them.
You know how much I like using a direct letter format on Twitter. And a parody that channels the parodied’s sentence structure back at them.
If Yascha Mounk thinks talking about “2+2” has a negative impact on the reputation of public health research during a pandemic, has he asked himself what negative impact his talk of “cancel culture” has?
Solid advice.
Really, you have to understand this. ⬇️
See also my earlier thread on how sub-par Lindsay’s & Pluckrose’s practices of citation are even from the view of the first-year #writingstudies courses I teach. My courses do research on a small scale, but it is research with relevant evidence & citation.
Tangential thought: this poll, and the response “the mountain” recalls the old tradition of scribbling “dang” or another cryptic abbreviation into student papers—without teaching what modifiers are, how one can use them, when they cause confusion, and what “dang” stands for.
You could say that “dang” is not dissimilar to recent comments of “2+2=4, you just don’t get it, do you?” or “2+2=4, or what are you, stupid?!”
No, actually, we’re here to discuss interesting things about math with examples that look wrong and are therefore interesting puzzles.
No, actually, we’re here to discuss interesting things about math with examples that look wrong and are therefore interesting puzzles.
Build a routine where what you presented in lecture-style form will be deepened in an upcoming activity. It’s a good way to prune your lecture ahead of time, too: how will this feed into students doing something with what you’re lecturing on? 2/
When you then orient them to breakout room discussion, make the discussion questions more outcome-oriented than you would in a face-to-face class. What are they meant to practice? Where can this analysis lead them? What productive thing can be done with this material? 3/
I wrote this as postmodernist parody of #JamesLindsay.
There's a deeper point: History of research disciplines tells us that as you build new knowledge, even through sometimes aggressive critique of others' work, you need to build it with others' concepts and ideas. 1/
There's a deeper point: History of research disciplines tells us that as you build new knowledge, even through sometimes aggressive critique of others' work, you need to build it with others' concepts and ideas. 1/
Even as you build your knowledge *against* some other knowledge that you think is dead wrong, you need to build it *with* knowledge that's already around, and you need to choose that knowledge with care and scrutiny as to its quality. 2/
Part of the process is that you tell your readers & listeners what that knowledge is. Who are the sources? What are the concepts? How do you relate them together? How do see them apply to your evidence? What questions do you pick up from where, which do you leave aside? 3/
If you're not yet tired of hearing about 2+2=4 and 2+2=5, I wrote a piece about it!
Or, if you are tired of it, here's my piece that ties key points together and sums it all up in terms of #publicpedagogy!
#disciplinarity #writingstudies #cdnwrds
medium.com/@KatjaT/what-h…
Or, if you are tired of it, here's my piece that ties key points together and sums it all up in terms of #publicpedagogy!
#disciplinarity #writingstudies #cdnwrds
medium.com/@KatjaT/what-h…
With nods to those on whose Twitter work my piece relies: @melvinmperalta, @Laurie_Rubel, @kareem_carr, @wtgowers, @wokal_distance, @AaronRHanlon, @mccormick_ted, @ETVPod, and @yarbsalocin.
"It is worth noting that logical pluralism is a mainstream position among logicians and completely within the Western tradition which Lindsay so adamantly claims to defend, yet this is something that his worldview does not admit."
merionwest.com/2020/08/10/on-…
merionwest.com/2020/08/10/on-…
Out of professional obligation, I have started reading James Lindsay's latest entry on his blog, and please let me release some steam by saying the first paragraph is a #writingstudies teacher's nightmare.
OK, thanks for listening.
I'll be my usual tough self and continue now.
OK, thanks for listening.
I'll be my usual tough self and continue now.
Yes, I am continuing to read.
Allow me to paste this: "I contend that this phenomenon represents a potentially existential risk to advanced modern civilizations, and, by the same actors insisting that two and two don’t necessarily make four, am being mocked for saying so."
Allow me to paste this: "I contend that this phenomenon represents a potentially existential risk to advanced modern civilizations, and, by the same actors insisting that two and two don’t necessarily make four, am being mocked for saying so."
I'm getting free, topnotch advice about my scholarly prose from someone who seems to have never published!
This nugget fills me with gratitude (watch me quote it with care 😉):
"You're supposed to be a vicious and criticize the bad ideas out of existence."
#writingstudies
This nugget fills me with gratitude (watch me quote it with care 😉):
"You're supposed to be a vicious and criticize the bad ideas out of existence."
#writingstudies
The layers of metacommentary that are made possible by Alexander's stellar advice, I enjoy them so much! Nerdy, I know.
What if . . . it's the bad idea that scholars must fight viciously against each other that I want to argue out of existence?
What if . . . it's the bad idea that scholars must fight viciously against each other that I want to argue out of existence?
What if, then, . . . I've already done so by writing a whole research article about it, built on evidence and full of my cutting criticism, and gotten it through peer review, too, with the help of my vicious arguments?
