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My Professional Writing Papers

Technical Writing ·  Exposition & Argumentation ·  Non-fiction Creative Essays ·  Grammar and Usage of Standard English ·  The Structure of English ·  Analysis of Shakespeare

Analysis of Literary Language ·  Advanced Professional Papers ·  The History of the English Language ·  First Internship: Tutoring in a Writing Workshop ·  Second Internship: Advanced Instruction: Tutoring Writing

Visual Literacy Seminar (A First Course in Methodology) ·  Theories of Communication & Technology (A Second Course in Methodology) ·  The Writer's Guild

Journalism

UMBC'S Conservative Newspaper: "The Retriever's Right Eye" ·  UMBC'S University Newspaper: "The Retriever Weekly" ·  Introduction to Journalism ·  Feature Writing ·  Science Writing Papers

The Shipka Spaces: Language in Society

Communicative Objective #2 (CO2): A hyper-modest proposal for two un-researched communicative practices within the study of language in society

Presentation/Activity: "Back to the Little Red Schoolhouse: A re-articulation of the index card method of organization for research papers"

The History of "this" Space: "Welcome to the Anti-Apathy Club: A study of UMBC student culture within the Shipka Spaces"

Blackboard Weekly Posts (A Bulletin Board Community)

Communicative Objective #1 (CO1): Re-contextualization of the definition of the word Annoy
from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

An Explanation of How to Read "This" Objective ·  Parameters for Re-contextualizing the Definition of a Word from the OED ·  Photos of the OED Annoy Artifacts ·  The Oxford English Dictionary Fairy Tale Radio Hour Archive Audio Tape and Script

The OED Annoy Goals and Choices ·  The OED Annoy Process Narrative-Sketch ·  The OED Word Definition Workshops One and Two: Brainstorming Ideas within a Social Context ·  The OED Blackboard Post

A List of OED Words that were Researched, Tested, and Abandoned

OED Rolling Credits: Who contributed to "this" objective

Rolling Credits
This only includes living beings. As my semiotics demonstrates many other things had an influence. First, I would like to thank Sarah Miller who surprisingly rescued the entire radio hour in the last moment. I sent her an email on such short notice and there was such a long response time I was afraid I would have to do all the voices. Fortunately, Sarah decided to do the radio skit at the last minute. When we began production, Sarah was a little timid at first. We talked for a long period of time about various things and eventually we got down to business. I think my enthusiasm rubbed off a little. Sarah, sincere thanks again for all your help. Learning can be fun and fun can be a learning experience, with fondness. Peculiar you would choose Lucille from "Cool Hand Luke" as I had referred to Boss Paul from "Cool Hand Luke" several times across several of these objectives for a "failure to com-mun-i-cate" considering that you were never given the opportunity to read ANY of my goals and choices: Synchronicity.

         Thanks goes to Shipka, Shipka, Shipka (recited with fondness, and to the tune of "Marcie, Marcie, Marcie" when Jan Brady blew up over Marice getting all the attention in a Brady Bunch episode) as many of the various reasons have been explained throughout "this" text.

         Next would be Ryoko, the parrot for putting up with me because she hasn't been out to see me in weeks since I started ENGL 324 and ENGL 407.

         Dr. Carpenter in a way was my dry run and she introduced me to semiotics and also for having said the word "Anime."

         I would like to thank Greg Masters who is a fellow Writing Center tutor and mentor for me in the center. He is one of the few veterans in the trenches left from the old regime of tutors. Greg belongs to the Chess Club, which provides grounding into the student culture of UMBC and is also a fellow scientist. He's great listener, thinker, and I thank him for listening to my aberrated mind babble trying to determine what is going on in these spaces. He will make an excellent catch for some fine intellectually stimulating woman. He's a well grounded and level headed young man.

         Then of course there is Elizabeth Piccirillo, a fellow Writing Center tutor and like Matthew Bowen, Naphtali Barsky, and Steven Norfolk, she survived ENGL 395 and is now a veteran of ENGL 324. When we had talks about what I was doing (my coursework) in ENGL 488 Visual Literacy somehow I was failing to com-mun-i-cate. Much of what I learned in ENGL 488 applies to ENGL 324 and 407 with the exception that the space is much larger and I have been shown there is more beyond text and image, but Elizabeth, at the time could not make a connection for herself about what I discussed from 488 to ENGL 324. The cross-over word is "Semiology." Elizabeth is also a journalist so we can communicate across those channels. Surprisingly we have never had that conversation. Elizabeth also led me to the "Chronotopic Lamination" article. I am connecting the dots and it is helping me to navigate within "this" space. Elizabeth is also a fellow ENGL 495 Rhetoric classmate.

         Erica Ostroski, a fellow Writing Center tutor, a ENGL 395 survivor, another Pisces, and a terrific listener. Erica is a Linguistics major with a minor in French. She was one of the students in the LING 210 class we visited for Shipka's history. Erica said, "She [Shipka] seems like a great professor." Chris said, "She IS but somehow I have failed to com-mun-i-cate with you how she has caused me to reflect on everything I have learned about since entering college all so long ago about com-mun-i-cation, learning, teaching, and seeing the world. I have shed my second skin and it feels wonderful." I did also tell Erica that her professor seemed to be conducting a marvelous space for intellectual exchange.

         The movie, "Cool Hand Luke" with the lines, "What we have here is a failure to com-mun-icate. You can't com-mun-i-cate if your mind ain't right. If your mind ain't right, you can't com-mun-i-cate. The old Saturday Night Live Skit ribbing the "Cool Hand Luke" movie. "You can't learn French if your mind ain't right. If your mind ain't right, you can't learn French. Which swings me back to an association with Erica.

         Last but not least, Dr. S. Brent Morris, Mathematician and lecturer in the "Magic, Mathematics, and Masonry" presentation. Without him both projects, the Patent and the OED would have probably been impossible. Thanks all, without you none of this would have been necessary!