[CBW_Exec] New Logo

[J. Elizabeth Clark]

i there,


How do you like these new logos? Can we decide on one of these, or would you like additional choices (these are based on our last go around of comments in June).


Liz

J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.
Professor of English 
LaGuardia Community College--CUNY
e-mail:  lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu
Phone:  718.482.5665 
www.jelizabethclark.com
>>> Thomas Peele  07/11/11 11:07 AM >>>
Thanks for this alert, Shannon. A comprehensive Wikipedia entry would be a
great, on-going project for graduate courses in basic writing theory and
pedagogy.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Shannon Carter <
Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu> wrote:

> **
>
> Hi, all--
>
> Hope your summer is excellent!
>
> Just wanted to share that BW is on Wikipedia now, which you may already
> know. Perhaps one of the EB wrote it! Yay! Hannah has been suggesting this
> for some time, and I was so glad to see it!
>
> It's at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_writing
>
> Only thing is this: IT IS ABOUT TO BE REMOVED. OR MAY BE REMOVED.
>
> See--
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Basic_writing#Synthesis
>
> REVISIONS NECESSARY, IT APPEARS. TOO ACADEMIC. Not yet within the genre of
> "encyclopedia."
>
> I'd hate to see this happen. Anyone able to take this on?
>
> Here's what they need to happen (from url above)--
> This is obviously an essay prepared as if for some professional
> publication. It shows the typical patter of focus on a few specific topics,
> rather than encyclopedic coverage: it deals with the work of some selective
> figures, rather than the field as a whole ,citing almost entirely from their
> writings. I presume it was copied directly from something published
> elsewhere, but even if it was written directly for Wikipedia, it is not
> encyclopedic. Almost the entire text was contributed by two editors who have
> contributed nothing else, and two ips, both geolocating to the same network
> in the Western US.
>
> The following needs to be done:
>
>    1. a considerable part of the treatment of the key authors needs to be
> moved to the articles about them individually, if not already present there.
>    2. A range of secondary and tertiary sources needs to be consulted
>    3. all major theoretical and practical strands in the subject need to be
> at least mentioned
>    4. a slightly wider range of external websites with resources on the
> subject needs to be listed.
>
> If nobody responds here, as is likely, I'll probably stubbify it or --if I
> have a chance -- rewrite it. DGG ( talk ) 09:33, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
>
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