Here is a presentation I found last year when I was Marty’s RA, looking for new material for his course. – http://web.archive.org/web/20040407205056/www.richgold.org/SMART/HTML/slide2.html This guy, Rich Gold, was a researcher at PARC before he passed away. Pretty cool stuff, my favorites are: How smart does the bed in your house have to be before you are…
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Prewriting Discussion Talk about it, blog about it, ask questions, seek help, etc ..! Structuralism and Semiotics Rooted in linguistics, treats our problems with a linguistic metaphor. Modern linguistics is focused on describing language rather than prescribing (proper grammar, rules of writing, etc). Describe how a linguistic community uses language. model …………. set of user…
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Without getting into the deeper philosophical concept of identity as performance or sign, i find the recent news of MySpace founder Tom Andersen’s alleged age-shifting mildly amusing. “Tom Anderson, the co-founder of MySpace and the first friend to anyone who creates a MySpace profile, isn’t really 32 like it says on his MySpace profile. His…
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