Taking Writing On-Line: The Intersections Of Rhetoric, Technology, And Community In The Composition Classroom

Discourse constructs individuals in community and by analogy constructs students (and teachers) in the networked-writing classroom. This work of constructing subjects moves us alternately toward the group (centripetal) and away toward becoming more individual (centrifugal). In order to understand this coordinate but opposite movement within on-line communication, the dissertation brings together the two strands (within the social) of technology and rhetoric. This rhetoric of technology is defined as the invention, arrangement, and delivery of computer-mediated language for the purpose of evoking action upon the part of an audience. The dissertation presents—among others—the discourse theory of Patricia Bizzell, Joseph Harris\u27s ideas concerning the usefulness of the term “community,” the “political unconscious” of Fredric Jameson, Jacques Derrida\u27s notion of différance and dissemination, and Hawisher and Selfe\u27s “rhetoric of technology.” It argues that these ideas and those of Susan Wells, especially her “rhetoric of intersubjectivity,” allow us to examine technology within community and see how it reduces multiple discourses while it creates new solidarities between individuals. The dissertation examines the uses on-line language may be put to in networked classroom communities. It recognizes this language as highly volatile and susceptible to manipulation. It presents two case studies of networked classroom practice that profile students\u27 and teachers\u27 work in the new milieu of the on-line writing classroom. The first case study examines the classroom listserv and presents an analysis of its discourse that acts to motivate both the individual and the group. This technology must, however, be let to build community within the forms of the face-to-face classroom. The second case study examines the laptop classroom where students combine resistance and creativity to manage the oppression of the technology\u27s instrumentalism. In a more personal vein, the author reflects on Freud\u27s dream analysis, the cyborg, and one intransigent student that highlight his own uses of technology to discover the work of the network-writing teacher. The challenge to teaching in these on-line virtual environments is to make them more richly inhabited and not to take them for granted or let them be subsumed into the ubiquitous rhetoric of corporate e-commerce

Alien Registration- Archibald, Amasa C. (Masardis, Aroostook County)

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Geology and Ore Deposits of the Golden Messenger MIne, Lewis and Clark County, Helena, Montana.

The Golden Messenger Mine which is approximately twenty-three miles northeast of Helena, Montana, near York, on Trout Creek, has long presented several problems of both theoretical and practical interest

The use of contemporary and historic diatom assemblages in the derivation of reference state communities for rivers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Reference state conditions of minimally disturbed headwaters were identified from present-day and historic diatom data of key rivers within the selected study area, with the main purpose of establishing diatom reference state communities

Integral-field studies of the high-redshift Universe

We present results from a new method of exploring the distant Universe. We use 3-D spectroscopy to sample a large cosmological volume at a time when the Universe was less than 3 billion years old to investigate the evolution of star-formation activity. Within this study we also discovered a high redshift type-II quasar which would not have been identified with imaging studies alone. This highlights the crucial role that integral-field spectroscopy may play in surveying the distant Universe in the future.Comment: From proceedings of Euro3D Spectroscopy annual RTN network meeting (ed. J. Walsh). 5 pages, accepted for publication in Astron. Nach

Geology and drilling history of the Ashida #1 geothermal test, Opihikao prospect, Hawaii

Discussion of the drilling program and interpretation of downhole geology based on cuttings samples from the Barnwell Ashida #1 well.For Barnwell Industries, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii

On the X-ray variability of magnetar 1RXS J170849.0-400910

We present a long-term X-ray flux and spectral analysis for 1RXS J170849.0-400910 using Swift/XRT spanning over 8 years from 2005-2013. We also analyze two observations from Chandra and XMM in the period from 2003-2004. In this 10-yr period, 1RXS J170849.0-400910 displayed several rotational glitches. Previous studies have claimed variations in the X-ray emission associated with some of the glitches. From our analysis we find no evidence for significant X-ray flux variations and evidence for only low-level spectral variations. We also present an updated timing solution for 1RXS J170849.0-400910, from RXTE and Swift observations, which includes a previously unreported glitch at MJD 56019. We discuss the frequency and implications of radiatively quiet glitches in magnetars.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Ap

Geology and drilling history of Lanipuna #1/sidetrack, Tokyo lands prospect, Hawaii

Discussion of the drilling program and interpretation of downhole geology based on cuttings samples from the Barnwell Lanipuna #1 sidetrack well.For Barnwell Industries, Inc., New York, New York

Red Noise in Anomalous X-ray Pulsar Timing Residuals

Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs), thought to be magnetars, exhibit poorly understood deviations from a simple spin-down called "timing noise". AXP timing noise has strong low-frequency components which pose significant challenges for quantification. We describe a procedure for extracting two quantities of interest, the intensity and power spectral index of timing noise. We apply this procedure to timing data from three sources: a monitoring campaign of five AXPs, observations of five young pulsars, and the stable rotator PSR B1937+21.Comment: submitted to the proceedings of the "40 Years of Pulsars" conferenc