The push and pull between Hyland’s bird’s-eye-view of research in every field (with the possible exceptions of digital literacy and a/r/tography, the two topics most of the class are focusing upon) and Giltrow’s down-on-the-ground specificity gets examined today with the interactive features of text, the points where the author is signalling for the reader to do something. Some of these cues are subtle or even innocuous, as if the hand could pluck the readers back while shoving them on (how’s that for a Shakespearean gloss?). When it gets to the point of the not-so-shy “I” intruding on what should be neutral and objective flow of ideas, the learned peer becomes a bossy show-off, or at least that how I see it (Emphasis in the original).
Found another article related to my research proposal, Patrick Howard (2014)’s Affinity Spaces and Ecologies of Practice which not only quotes extensively from Dobson and Willinsky (2009) and James Paul Gee, but features a young pre-service teacher named Kyle who uses digital tools to make a pirate-themed video. Ah, the path not taken, as it seems like this was me in another lifetime. Seems as good a time as any to reflect on the truism Kedrick famously exclaimed yesterday: “F*ck you, Frost!”