Write an essay in two parts. You may write as much as you like, but I imagine 1,000-1,200 words would work.
In the first part, define and analyze the term collaboration with reference to at least 2 of the texts we have read this term. You may use my blog posts—which include texts and links to Bakhtin, Kristeva, Barthes, Foucault and others if you like.
In the second part, reflect on your own work with collaborative texts—your study of interpretation (assignment 1), the webtext (assignment 2), and the co-authored story or symposium (assignment 2). To what degree does your experience with collaborative-based writing confirm the theories of collaboration that we have discussed this term? In what ways do your experiences reveal gaps in these theories?
Below you'll find a links and descriptions to blog posts that you mind find useful in preparing the final essay:
1. Monday, January 4, 2010
Bruffee: "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind'"
Bruffee
This post pre-dates our time together, but it focuses on the Bruffee article that began our semester. Do you agree with Bruffee’s enthusiastic endorsement of collaborative processes?
2. Monday, February 8, 2010
Intertextuality
This post is interesting to contemplate in relationship to several of your projects.
Kristeva writes that “any text is the absorption and transformation of another.” (p. 37). What do you think about such a statement? Do you think it’s true? Did you see this sort of intertextuality play out in your writing this term? Or were the ideas born—more or less—out of your head?
3. Monday, February 8, 2010
Dialogism and Heteroglossia
You’ll find this post relevant to intertextuality. Bakhtin emphasizes “context over text,” which means that meaning itself shifts depending on your perspective. By implication, you—as a writer—are not entirely in control of the meaning of your text.
4. Monday, February 22, 2010
The Pharmakon
Jeff Rice references this word, which both Plato and Derrida use to discuss writing. The term positions writing as both cure and poison.
5. Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Rhetoric of Cool: Ch 2-5
If you’re interested in reflecting on your webtexts (perhaps compare/contrast it to a traditional essay?), then this post will be helpful. It’s a summary and exposition of Rice’s key chapters.
6. Monday, April 5, 2010
Class Notes 4/6
This post concerns many issues that Ede and Lunsford take up. You’ll find material that defines the term and social position of “author.” Where do you fit into that term? You’ll find material on the printing press and a discussion of the solitary author.
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