Rhetoric & Composition

I have been compiling a list of websites on the topic of Rhetoric & Composition for use on a subject guide for the college.  I’ve decided to list them below.  Some are more appropriate to teaching than to students so I have not included them in my college guide but they are worth keeping for looking into in future.  Here they are:

The following is an excellent site to use as an overview of the topic:  http://rhetoric.byu.edu/default.htm

Writing Spaces is an online textbook with several chapters that may be of interest to the instructors for this course.  I have included links to only a few of them here, but would recommend instructors review the text in its entirety to decide what is most appropriate for their course.  See below for links:

http://writingspaces.org/essays/backpacks-vs-briefcases

http://writingspaces.org/singh-corcoran–composition-as-a-write

http://writingspaces.org/dasbender–critical-thinking-in-college-writing

http://writingspaces.org/essays/finding-the-good-argument

http://writingspaces.org/essays/so-youve-got-a-writing-assignment

http://writingspaces.org/reid–ten-ways-to-think

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs.

http://www.inventio.us/ccc/- College Composition and Communication website. The CCC Online Archive is designed primarily as a research tool, an online supplement to the journal College Composition and Communication.

www.dwrl.utexas.edu/about/ University of Texas at Austin, explores how information technologies are changing the ways we produce and consume texts, the ways we argue, and how we can flexibly address these sociotechnical changes.

http://enculturation.gmu.edu/– A refereed online journal devoted to contemporary theories of rhetoric, writing, and culture.

http://www4.uwsp.edu/english/iw/- Issues in Writing is a semiannual, refereed journal devoted to the study of writing in science and technology, government, education, business and industry, the arts and humanities, and the professions.

http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/teachingwriting/search/titles – A journal devoted to the teaching of composition and the language arts.*

http://www.jowr.org/- An international peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality theoretical, empirical, and review papers covering the broad spectrum of writing research.

Journal of Electronic Publishing – A really interesting ejournal on publishing ejournals.

rhetcomp.com – A portal to sites relevant to the field of rhetoric and composition.

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/, The Forest of Rhetoric by Dr. Gideon Burton, Brigham Young University.
http://writing.colostate.edu/, writing at Colorado State University
http://wpacouncil.org/, counsil of writing program administrators
http://comppile.org/wpa+nsse/, a consortium for the study of writing in college.
http://www.nwp.org/, the national writing project based in the United States.  You can search this site for additional resources on rhetoric.
http://wac.colostate.edu/, a clearinghouse of resources on writing compiled by Colorado State University.
http://mappingproject.ucdavis.edu/homepage, research on activity devoted to student writing.
http://writingcenters.org/, International Writing Centers Association
http://www.schreibzentrum.de/eataw2007/, The European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing.
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/, The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) supports and promotes the teaching and study of college composition and communication.

http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/cbw/cbw/News.html, a site for professional and personal conversations on pedagogy, curriculum, administration, and social issues affecting basic writing.

http://www.ncte.org/, National Council of Teachers of English.

http://www.writinginstructor.com/, a networked journal and digital community for writers and teachers of writing.

 

Information Literacy and Eli Pariser’s TED talk

This TED talk by Eli Pariser about “filter bubbles” is a nice way to introduce students to some of the issues around using the internet for research.  It clearly articulates the invisible algorithmic editing that is used to personalize the results of web searches and debunks the myth of the web as providing open access to the world of information.

See additional clips on Andy Burkhardt’s blog.

NFB’s list of sites to watch films online for free

http://blog.nfb.ca/2011/09/02/12-sites-to-watch-films-online-for-free/

Copyright – current info.

Sharon Wang at Osgoode Library has produced this informative guide to copyright:  http://www.iposgoode.ca/copyright-reform/

Art & Image Resources Available Through Subscription Databases

The following subscription databases house art and image resources.  There may be others as well, but these are those that are available in the college library at which I am currently employed.  I decided to include this list here because I discovered that my web-guide on this topic was not available when I went to it and I thought it was lost.  Now that it is available again, I thought I should have some back-up of this information.  Art and image resources available through the web have been listed on this blog earlier.  You cannot access the databases here without a paid subscription.

Art Full Text (Wilson): For reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Covers folk art, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, and Sculpture, among other subjects.

Art Museum Image Gallery (Wilson):  Drawing on the collections of distinguished museums around the world, the content of Art Museum Image Gallery is rights-cleared for use in educational settings, so they can be employed liberally in class lectures, assignments, and academic presentations.

ArtStor: Offers hundreds of thousands of images from all eras and cultures. Click on the orange “Go” button to begin searching. Enter your search term and double click on any image that interests you in order to enlarge it.

Berg Fashion Library:  This is the first online resource to provide access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion and will be useful to anyone researching or studying fashion, anthropology, art history, history, museum studies, and cultural studies.

The Canadian Reference Centre (EBSCO): Do a basic search. Type in what you’re looking for (for example, ferns), then limit your search by selecting one of the following: black and white photograph; color photograph; diagram, or; illustration. Double click on the image that looks interesting to you in order to enlarge it.

Cinema Image Gallery:  This unique database features an unparalleled range of pictures, posters, video clips, and other material from around the world of film and television from the late 19th century to the present day.

Electric Library (Proquest): Do a Basic Search. Enter your search term and de-select all categories except pictures.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online:  Has images of artistic works including paintings, sculptures, carvings, architecture, and even antiques. Click on “images”, and search through the alphabetical listing or enter your search term and click search. This database is best used to find images of the works of the great masters. Just enter their last name as your search term.

Humanities International Complete : Do a basic search.  You can limit your search to bring back results that include images. You can further limit your results to maps, colour or black and white photos, diagrams etc..

Why My Library Matters to Me

The Toronto Public Library is running a contest called “Why My Library Matters to Me” as one way of encouraging people to speak out about the role of public libraries in their lives and give them an opportunity to do their part to help save TPL from funding cutbacks.  Enter the contest to win lunch with one of Toronto’s most celebrated authors.   You can get more information from their site at:  http://ourpubliclibrary.to/contest/

Good luck!

Lis Vendor Information

The following wiki was set up by Sarah Glassmeyer:  http://lisvendor.info/index.php?title=Main_Page

Art and Image Resources Available on the Web

The following is a list of art and image resources available on the web.  I originally compiled this list for use as part of a pathfinder for Sheridan College.  The pathfinder also included databases in the Sheridan collection which have been omitted here.  All collections included in this list should be consulted as to the proprietary rights of the images prior to re-publishing the images.

• ArtBabble  Offers videos, interviews, background information on artists and the art world.  Hosted by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and includes material from the Museum of Modern Art and the PBS series “Art:21.”
• Art History Resources on the Web
• Art in Context:  Information about Artists and where to find their work.
• Art on Film Online
• ArtSource  a gathering point for networked resources on art and architecture.
• The Artchive
• The Artcyclopedia:  Over 8,000 painters, sculptors and photographers, at art museum sites & image archives worldwide.
• Art Images for College Teaching  http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict  Images of art and architectural works photographed by the author.
• Artnet
• AskArt:  the American artists bluebook.  Extensive information about more than 32,000 artists (partially accessible for free) .
• Bigfoto & partner sites  www.bigfoto.com  www.free-pictures-photos.com  www.picture-newsletter.com
• Biodidac  http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca  Images for teaching biology.
• Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection  http://images.botany.org  Approximately 800 images.
• Centre of Contemporary Canadian Art’s Internet Archive of Professional Artists:  Over 18,000 images of work by contemporary Canadian artists.
• Collections Canada  www.collectionscanada.ca  Content related to Canadian history and culture.
• CyberMuse:  National Gallery of Canada : Over 9,000 images of artworks by Canadian artists, as well as video and audio recordings. Search by keyword, title, artist, nationality, or medium. Note: not all images indexed are available.
  Digital Saskatchewan  http://digitalsask.nesd.ca/index.php  Images, movies and sounds.
• Discovery School Clip Art  http://school.discovery.com/clipart  Includes animations.
• Everystockphoto  www.everystockphoto.com
• Flickr  www.flickr.com  An online photo management and sharing application.
• The Getty Information Institute
• Google’s Image Search
• Guggenheim  www.guggenheim.org  Images from collections and shows at Guggenheim museums around the world.
• History of Visual Communication
  Offers a theme-based approach to the history of visual communication using examples from pre-history to the present age.  Anonymously posted, but an excellent creative source for inspiration.
• Images Canada:  Government of Canada, Over 65,000 photographic images, lithographs and reproductions of Canadian subjects.
• Library map collection, University of Texas  www.lib.utexas.edu/maps  Maps of the world.
• Library of Congress  www.loc.gov/index.html  Related to American culture, history, art, etc.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art  www.metmuseum.org
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Timeline of Art History
• Microsoft Images  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart  Clip-art, animations and images.
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston  www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp
• The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) www.moma.org
• Museum of Modern Art (MOMA’s DADABASE)
• The Mother-of-All Art & Art History Links Page
• NASA  www.nasa.gov  Content specific to the U.S. space program and related topics.
• New York Public Library Digital Image Collections:  A gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique international holdings in digitized form, including:  historic maps, rare prints and photos, illuminated manuscripts, etc.
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collection (NOAA) Photo Library  www.photolib.noaa.gov/search.html
• The National Resources Canada Library (NRCan)  http://ess.nrcan.gc.ca/esic/
• NRCS Photo Gallery  http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov  Natural resource and conservation related photos from across the USA.
• PicFindr  www.picfindr.com
• Pics4Learning  www.pics4learning.com  Thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.
• Public health image library.  http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp  A gateway to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pictures.
• Le Quebec en images  www.ccdmd.qc.ca/quebec  Thousands of images of the regions of Quebec.
• School Clip Art  www.school-clip-art.com  Free clip-art for teachers and students.
•  Smithsonian Inititution Research & Information System (SIRIS)
• Stock.SCHNG  www.scx.hu  Intended to be an alternative to expensive stock photography.
• Teachers’ Domain  http://www.teachersdomain.org  Includes images from various areas of the arts.
• UTOPIA portrait gallery  www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.html  Portraits of historical figures from the University of Texas library.
• Wikimedia Commons  http://commons.wikimedia.org  A repository created and maintained by volunteers.
• WiseGorilla  www.wisegorilla.com  Clip-art.

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