Dumps

I'm not sure what it was, but everyone seemed kind of edgy today. Surely the end of the semester is taking its toll. Add that to the snow and the below 30 degree temperatures, and I guess you get some grumpy, snippy folks. 

Well, I am home now, it's warm and I'm going to enjoy curling up with one of the many books that I need to have read like yesterday.

One question from the day: who is in our composition canon? We know the big guns in rhetoric. What about comp? We did some citation excavation in Margaret's class and found that many articles which cite other influential articles tend to do so in superficial ways; they tend to appropriate the theories and even typecast them to fit in where they need them. 

I wonder how many theories have been altered in this way, like a big game of academic telephone, the original message being translated so many times that its inital meaning is warped or lost altogether? I'm sure it is not unheard of.

To read!