http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog Learning to Live With My Own Reflections. Trauman's Blog. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:25:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/11/digital-media-writer-a-matter-of-craft/ http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/11/digital-media-writer-a-matter-of-craft/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:05 +0000 trauman http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/?p=596 I want to become a great digital media writer. There’s something that just seems a bit “off” with that phrase. Digital. Media. Writer. I don’t know. I want to produce texts that have pictures and videos and sound and alphabetic text, and formatting, and layout, etc. And lately, I’ve come to the conclusion that in order [...]]]> http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/11/digital-media-writer-a-matter-of-craft/feed/ 2 http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/05/short-introduction-to-my-dissertation/ http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/05/short-introduction-to-my-dissertation/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:00:39 +0000 trauman http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/?p=584 A large portion of my dissertation is going to focus on the work of Writing Program Administrators as Rhetorical Workers. Yes, with all of the baggage (thanks, Karl) that comes with “worker.” In order to start putting together the theoretical frame for the research, I’m going to be drawing significantly from Cultural Materialist theory (Bruce [...]]]> http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/05/short-introduction-to-my-dissertation/feed/ 0 http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/04/getting-some-momentum-back-finally/ http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/04/getting-some-momentum-back-finally/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:56:19 +0000 trauman http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/?p=581 Ahhh. For at least a few days now, the writer’s block has been absent. Hopefully, I can keep this momentum. A few items I want to share: I’ve set a goal for myself: 1000 words every day. Indefinitely. They don’t all have to be related directly to the dissertation, but at least some of them do. And [...]]]> http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/2009/11/04/getting-some-momentum-back-finally/feed/ 0