Writing Studies & the University Libraries http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/ A dynamic place with the goal of connecting those who teach Writing with ideas and techniques to integrate Library related tools, collections and services into your classes to improve student's library and information literacy skills. en Copyright 2012 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:43:28 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Handouts and Videos from FYW Orientation Welcome to Fall semester. Here are some materials from last week... prc_flyer.jpg


Library Tools for Teaching from August 27, 2012
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/LibraryToolsforTeaching_Fall2012.pdf


Selecting the Right Number of Keywords:

Hands-on session for new FYW on August 30, 2012:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/First%20Year%20Writing%20Instructors%20Orientation_Fall2012.pdf

What is a scholarly article?


Library Support for FYW on August 31 with all FYW Instructors
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/FYW_Orientation_handout_8_31_2012.pdf

They Say I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing handout (ties "templates" with research ideas)
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/They%20Say%20I%20Say_Research.pdf

Explore a Topic handout:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/ExploringTopic_ResearchQuestion_Handout_June2011.doc

Continuum: Magazine of the University of Minnesota Libraries

Used Car Salesman--Library Databases:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llD1AY5fsjc&feature=share&list=UUZsL8mSjDJlIuQ8oKLKvGIA

The Information Cycle:

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2012/09/handouts-and-videos-from-fyw-o.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2012/09/handouts-and-videos-from-fyw-o.html FirstYearWriting Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:43:28 -0600 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: RHETORIC AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES DigitalHumanities_wordcloud.jpgCALL FOR PROPOSALS:
RHETORIC AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES

http://rid.olfo.org/cfp/

"This edited collection will consist of an editors' introduction and three sections. The first section will consist of eight to twelve chapters that define field connections between rhetoric and the digital humanities. The second section will consist of eight to twelve chapters focused on research methodology. The third section will include eight to twelve short vision statements, modeled after the NEH white paper genre, which offer several paths for exploring interdisciplinary trajectories between rhetorical studies and the digital humanities."

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/11/call-for-proposals-rhetoric-an.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/11/call-for-proposals-rhetoric-an.html Digital Writing Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:42:08 -0600 New Media Writing Prize newmedia.jpghttp://www.newmediawritingprize.co.uk/#

The Media School at Bournemouth University is delighted to announce that entries are now open for the 2nd annual prize for new media writing. The prize encourages writers working with new media to showcase their skills, provoke discussion and raise awareness of new media writing, the future of the 'written' word and storytelling.
There are two two categories, student and professional. Winners in each category will receive winners in each category will receive a valuable bundle of new media hardware and software.

http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/2011/08/new-media-writing-prize-2011-entries-now-open/

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/09/new-media-writing-prize.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/09/new-media-writing-prize.html Digital Writing Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:59:06 -0600 Fall 2011--First Year Writing Resources Handout from Sept. 2nd session: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/FYW_LibrariesInfo_9_2_2011.pdf
They Say/I Say Research handout: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/They%20Say%20I%20Say_Research.doc
Conclusions from Project Information Literacy research on how students conduct research in the digital age (Fall 2010): http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/PIL_Fall2010_Survey_Conclusions_Handout.pdf
Libraries for Faculty and Instructors handout: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/Faculty_Orientation_E_Handout_2011_FINAL.pdf


Links for teaching First Year Writing:
Intro to Library Research: http://www.lib.umn.edu/introtolibraryresearch
Peer Research Consultants: http://www.lib.umn.edu/services/prc
Library Course Page for WRIT 1301: http://www.lib.umn.edu/course/WRIT/1301

Fun videos to reinforce/introduce academic research concepts:

Scholarly vs. Popular
http://vimeo.com/21759715

Why citation is important
http://vimeo.com/21758525

Study like a Scholar

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/09/fall-2011--first-year-writing.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/09/fall-2011--first-year-writing.html FirstYearWriting Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:31:02 -0600 Intertwined acts poli.jpg

The Precession, Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffery's newest project, redefines literary creation as intertwined acts of writing, composing, and viewing/reading work on the Internet, as well as collaboration and performance. The entire process makes a series of exciting suggestions about how electronic writing in particular can be translated into innovative and significant performances either on your own computer screen, projected into and onto various spaces, or interacted with as a live event.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/intertwined-acts.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/intertwined-acts.html Digital Writing Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:14:29 -0600 Is academic research painful for your students?
This blog post is from 2009 but no less true today...PIL_images.jpg
http://acrlog.org/2009/02/18/academic-research-a-painful-process-for-students/

Read more about the current research from Project Information Literacy: http://projectinfolit.org/

p.s. If you answered "yes" to the blog title...the Libraries can help!

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/is-academic-research-painful-f.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/is-academic-research-painful-f.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:02:28 -0600 continuum published No. 9--Libraries Newsletter continuum_9.jpg

The University of Minnesota Libraries publication Continuum is now being published online. Here is the new url: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/continuum/ and view it through issuu...a web based "reader"

continuum_issuu.jpg

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/continuum-published-no-9--libr.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/continuum-published-no-9--libr.html New Resource Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:04:12 -0600 U Copyright in the Chronicle NancySimms.jpgDid you see at the beginning of summer that the University of Minnesota's copyright librarian, Nancy Simms, was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education?

What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/u-copyright-in-the-chronicle.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/u-copyright-in-the-chronicle.html Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:19:31 -0600 RefWorks 2.0 and RefShare RefWorks_2.0_header.jpg

RefWorks 2.0 & RefShare Now Available

RefWorks 2.0

RefWorks has introduced a new, user-friendly interface called RefWorks 2.0. Current RefWorks account holders have the option to move to the new interface now. RefWorks 2.0 will become the only interface by the start of fall semester.

RefShare

In addition to a new interface, account holders will now be able to easily share citation data with internal and external folks via RefShare.

View more information on both RefWorks 2.0 and RefShare.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/-refworks-20-refshare.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/-refworks-20-refshare.html New Resource Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:14:53 -0600 Hello...again clock.jpgWell it has only taken me two years to get the templates updated on this but now that I have I look forward to more posts...couldn't be that hard we my previous 1 per year rate...

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/helloagain.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2011/08/helloagain.html Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:12:53 -0600 Writing and First Year Writing Instructor Orientations It was a busy week of orientation. I wanted to share all of the various PPTs and handouts. Please use as needed.

Monday, August 30-Library Tools for Teaching

Wednesday, September 1--New FYW instructors


Project Information Literacy: Frustrations

Friday, September 3--All FYW instructors

Study Like a Scholar:

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to discuss how the Libraries can support your teaching (or research)!
katep@umn.edu
612-626-3746
Walter Library 239

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/09/writing-and-first-year-writing.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/09/writing-and-first-year-writing.html FirstYearWriting Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:22:58 -0600 Libraries on your new iPhone? Find the Libraries in the Palm of Your Handmobile.jpg

As mobile devices have become the primary means of Internet access for more and more of our users, we have been busy designing a robust version of our Web site optimized for the small screens of smartphones. On-the-go users can now:

* Search for books, videos, maps, and music, and more using the library catalog.
* Find magazine and journal articles using library databases.
* E-mail citations of the resources you find.
* Browse for article databases that have mobile interfaces.
* Check library building and collection hours.
* Contact librarians by e-mail or phone.
* Look up when your checked out items are due.

The first time you browse to www.lib.umn.edu from your handheld device, you will be given the option to automatically be sent to the mobile site for all future visits. Those without Internet-enabled phones can view the mobile site from any computer at www.lib.umn.edu/mobile/.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/06/libraries-on-your-new-iphone.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/06/libraries-on-your-new-iphone.html News Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:51:24 -0600 New Books rhetoric_book.jpgRhetorics and technologies : new directions in writing and communication
Contributor: Selber, Stuart A.
Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
Date: 2010
Description: Contents: Redrawing borders and boundaries. Being linked to the matrix: biology, technology, and writing / Marilyn M. Cooper
-- Among texts / Johndan Johnson-Eilola
-- Serial composition / Geoffrey Sirc
-- Constructing discourses and communities. Appeals to the body in eco-rhetoric and techno-rhetoric / M. Jimmie Killingsworth
-- Unfitting beauties of transducing bodies / Anne Frances Wysocki
-- The rhetorics of online autism advocacy: a case for rhetorical listening / Paul Heilker and Jason King
-- Narrating the future: scenarios and the cult of specification / John M. Carroll
-- Understanding writing and communication practices. Technology, genre, and gender: the case of power structure research / Susan Wells
-- Rhetoric in (as) a digital economy / James E. Porter
-- Literate acts in convergence culture: Lost as transmedia narrative / Debra Journet.


working_archives.jpgWorking in the archives : practical research methods for rhetoric and composition
Contributor: Ramsey, Alexis E., 1979-
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
# Date: 2010
Description: Contents: Invigorating historiographic practices in rhetoric and composition studies / Cheryl Glenn and Jessica Enoch
-- Archival survival : navigating historical research / Lynée Lewis Gaillet
-- Open to the possibilities : seven tales of serendipity in the archives / Lori Ostergaard -- Invisible hands : recognizing archivists' work to make records accessible / Sammie L. Morris and Shirley K. Rose
-- Viewing the archives : the hidden and the digital / Alexis E. Ramsey
-- Locating the archives : finding aids and archival scholarship in composition and rhetoric / Chris Warnick
-- Searching and seeking in the deep Web : primary sources on the Internet / Elizabeth Yakel
-- Finding and researching photographs / Helena Zinkham
-- Looking for letters / Margaret J. Marshall
-- Reading the archive of freshman English / Thomas Masters
-- Journeying into the archives : exploring the pragmatics of archival research / Katherine E. Tirabassi
-- (En)gendering the archives for basic writing research / Kelly Ritter
-- Archival research as a social process / Neal Lerner
-- Emergent taxonomies : using tension and forum to organize primary texts / Tarez Samra Graban
-- The guilty pleasures of working with archives / Linda S. Bergmann
-- The personal as method and place as archives : a synthesis / Liz Rohan
-- Keeping the conversation going : the archive thrives on interviews and oral history / Brad E. Lucas and Margaret M. Strain
-- Deep sea diving : building an archive as the basis for composition studies research / Lynn Z. Bloom
-- Autobiography of an archivist / Nan Johnson.

Rhetorica in motion : feminist rhetorical methods & methodologies
Contributor: Schell, Eileen E. ; Rawson, K. J. (Kelly Jacob), 1981-
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press
Date: c2010


Discourse of blogs and wikis
Author/Creator: Myers, Greg, 1954-
Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum
Description: Contents: Introduction : a linguist in the blogosphere
-- Genre : what is a blog? what is a wiki?
-- This text and other texts : creative linking
-- Place : where is a blog?
-- Time : now and then
-- Audiences: a checklist on engaging readers
-- Opinions : where do I stand?
-- Evidence : how do we know?
-- Collaboration : 'history' pages on Wikipedia
-- Arguing : 'talk' pages on Wikipedia
-- A note on studying the language of blogs and wikis.
Date: c2010


whenlangauge.jpgWhen language breaks down : analysing discourse in clinical contexts
Author/Creator: Asp, Elissa D.
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press
Description: Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction;
1. Introduction to clinical discourse analysis;
2. Theoretical and clinical contexts;
3. Conversation analysis and intonation in English;
4. Grammar;
5. Contexts of culture, context of situation and phase;
6. Study design;
7. Differential diagnosis and monitoring;
8. Cognitive models, inferencing, and affect;
9. Modelling information across domains; Closings remarks.
Summary: "Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers often know what people with Alzheimer's disease or Asperger's 'sound like' - that is they recognise patterns in people's discourse, from sounds and silences, to words, sentences and story structures. Such discourse patterns may inform their clinical judgements and affect the decisions they make. However, this knowledge is often tacit, like recognising a regional accent without knowing how to describe its features. This is the first book to present models for comprehensively describing discourse specifically in clinical contexts and to illustrate models with detailed analyses of discourse patterns associated with degenerative (Alzheimer's) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders. The book is aimed not only at advanced students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, speech pathology and clinical psychology but also at researchers, clinicians and caregivers for whom explicit knowledge of discourse patterns might be helpful"--Provided by publisher.
Date: 2010

Confusing discourse
Author/Creator: Janicki, Karol.
Publisher: Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan
Description: Contents: What are you talking about? : language and abstraction
-- Learning new words : how we develop meaning
-- Words are not what they refer to : the map is not the territory
-- Words, words, words, and tables, cars and elephants : intensional and extensional orientation
-- The good guys and the bad guys : two-valued and multi-valued orientation
-- The unfortunate word 'is' : 'is' of identity and 'is' of predication; e-prime
-- Can you tell the difference? : non-verbal phenomena, descriptions, and inferences
-- Can you imagine it? : the role of visualization and context in understanding discourse -- No bamboozlement, please : how to disclose others' equivocation and make your own discourse less confusing and easier to understand : a summary and some warnings.
Date: 2010

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/06/new-books-1.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/06/new-books-1.html Books Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:46:08 -0600 UThink: Blogging and Beyond event June 2 "UThink: Blogging and Beyond," a presentation highlighting multiple features of UThink Blogs, a service for the University community, is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, June 2, in 402 Walter Library.

UThink, a service offered by the University Libraries with support from the Office of Information Technology (OIT), is intended to aid in teaching and learning, scholarly communication, and individual expression, and provide support for personal, curricular, and scholarly communications conducted by the University community. The service is available to any current faculty, student, or staff member of the Twin Cities campus.

The event will focus on the various uses for UThink, including blogging and less well-known, unique uses the service can provide in an academic setting. Presentations by UThink site creators from the College of Education and Human Development, School of Public Health and the Humphrey Institute are planned. Attendees also will have an opportunity to ask questions of the panel. Refreshments will be served.

Those interested in attending the event should R.S.V.P. via www.oit.umn.edu/news-events/register. The event also will be available via UMConnect at www.umconnect.umn.edu/uthink.

For more information about UThink, visit http://blog.lib.umn.edu/

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/05/uthink-blogging-and-beyond-eve.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/05/uthink-blogging-and-beyond-eve.html Mon, 17 May 2010 14:22:14 -0600 Scimagine 2010 scimagine.jpgHow do you combine skills in problem solving and business development with a desire to make the world a better place?

Villagers in the Himalayan foothills prepare their food over smoky indoor wood fires, resulting in poor air quality that is one of the top 20 global causes of death. Student teams from the Institute of Technology, Carlson School of Management, and the School of Public Health have partnered with students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee to create a business plan that addresses this issue.

Teams from 14 universities in the U.S. and India are competing in the Acara Challenge 2010 for the opportunity to turn their plan into a sustainable business. Join us to find out how they met the challenge and what they learned about collaborating across continents.

SCImagine emphasizes the Science & Engineering Library's role as an intellectual gathering place on campus. Each spring, the Library showcases University teaching, learning and research in the physical sciences and engineering, offering fascinating presentations and lively discussions.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/04/scimagine-2010.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/katep/infolit/2010/04/scimagine-2010.html Event Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:06:45 -0600