This blog post is primarily intended to help my students find resources for creating digital compositions—texts made up of some combination of visual images, audio, video, and so forth. But I post it to this blog in the hopes that it’s useful for other instructors and students as well.
Author / Christina
My Exam Year Advice
Recently I produced this video for my colleagues in my department who are about to enter the exam year. (In my English department, PhD students in rhetoric and composition, creative writing, and literature spend most of their third year reading two lists of texts—about 100 texts in all—in preparation for their exams. They spend two days writing at home with their notes, and then cap it off with a 90-minute oral exam.)
Although much of my advice is contextual to my program’s specific situation—for example, I was able to choose about 75% of my texts, in consultation with my examiners—I hope others might find this advice and my perspectives helpful, too.
And if you have more to add in the way of helping others through the exam process, please leave more ideas in the comments.
(Note: if you’d like to more easily jump around within the video itself, click here to view it on YouTube, where I provide bookmarks.)
CCCC 2015 Archives
Both because I want a place to store this all myself and also in the hopes of being of use to others, I’m going to archive some interesting/useful Twitter archives, reviews, materials, and the like here.
Many of these pertain to sessions I wanted to see but missed; you’ll notice that the contents below are very much shaped by own interests.
Note: I will continue to update this post; however, my goal is to be selective, not comprehensive. Patrol the #4C15 hashtag for more!