• For Fall 2008, Jim is developing a Tier 1 course (WRA 110) that will focus on this question: How is writing changed (how is rhetoric theory changed) when it moves online, into digital environments? First-year students will explore this question in their writing and research. Since it is a presidential election year Jim and the students will also spend some time studying campaign rhetoric, focusing on how digital technologies are changing presidential campaigning.
• The 3rd edition of Professional Writing Online — co-authored by James E. Porter, Patricia Sullivan, and Johndan Johnson-Eilola — will be released in August 2008, for use in fall courses. |
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• Congratulations to Doug Eyman (PhD, MSU, 2007). Doug's dissertation project, Digital Rhetoric: Ecologies and Economies of Digital Circulation, won the 2008 Computers & Composition award for "Best Dissertation."
• In Fall 2007 Jim taught a set of three 1-credit business communication modules — BUS 491 Special Topics in Business — for students in the Eli Broad College of Business at MSU. The curriculum for these modules focused on teaching fundamental rhetorical skills for business communication: How do you propose? How do you report? How do you build (maintain, repar) relationships?