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Articles
(30)
Dictating to the machine: Voice-activated computer technology
(Michael Spooner)
English Education
(1988)
In the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Captain Scott sits down in front of a twentieth century personal computer - primitive tech- nology to him - and addresses it pleasantly "Computer!" The PC ...
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Foreign affairs: Contact literature debate
(Michael Spooner)
English Journal
(1987)
From cheap labor to junior colleague: Training TAs in composition
(Michael Spooner and Holly O'Donnell)
English Education
(1987)
An emerging field of interest within English education is the training of teaching assistants (TAs) in freshman composition programs. Ten or twelve years ago, most English departments considered it unnecessary to train their graduate assistants, ...
The US cultural literacy debate
(Michael Spooner)
Journal of Reading
(1987)
Cultural literacy instruction is one of the strategies recently proposed for reform in U.S. education. As a way to help students improve their back- ground of information, it has been considered a broad based response ...
Concrete poetry: Classroom fluff or solid learning?
(Michael Spooner)
Journal of Reading
(1986)
Many teachers view concrete poetry suspiciously as one of those curricular innovations that found their way into reading programs during the neoprogressive days of the 1960s. As such, it kept company with some carelessly rationalized ...
Books
(4)
Entrapment: a comedy
(Michael Spooner)
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
(2009)
Last child: a novel
(Michael Spooner)
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
(2005)
Daniel's walk: a novel
(Michael Spooner)
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
(2001)
"Your daddy's in trouble, boy," said the voice. "It's up to you from here, son."A teenage boy walks the Oregon Trail in search of his missing fatherHas something happened to Daniel's father? The warning might ...
Old Meshikee and the little crabs: an Ojibwe tale
(Michael Spooner)
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
(1996)
Although the sand crabs try in many ways to get rid of Old Meshikee the turtle, they are not as clever as he and so fail to end his drumming.
Contributions to Books
(8)
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How Everything Happens: Notes on May Swenson's Theory of Writing
(Michael Spooner)
Body My House: May Swenson's Work and Life
(2006)
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The stories we are: Old Meshikee and the winter of 1929
(Michael Spooner)
The Subject is Story: Essays for Writers and Readers
(2003)
Reading and the art of berry picking
(Michael Spooner and Kathleen Yancey)
The Subject is Reading
(2000)
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Petals on a Wet Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration, and the New Essay
(Michael Spooner and Kathleen Yancey)
Passions Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies
(1999)
Collaborative/social process theory
(Michael Spooner and Kathleen Yancey)
Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies
(1998)
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Sympathy for the Devil: Editing Alterate Style
(Michael Spooner)
Elements of Alternate Style: Essays on Writing and Revision
(1997)
Concluding the text: Notes toward a theory and the practice of voice
(Michael Spooner and Kathleen Yancey)
Voices on Voice: Perspectives, Definitions, Inquiry
(1994)
Copyright, fair use, and the concerns of educators
(Michael Spooner)
Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts
(1993)
Presentations
(5)
The changing face of scholarly communication: Libraries and presses transform the book
(Michael Spooner)
International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
(2012)
Fundraising (and alternatives) in a tough economy
(Michael Spooner)
Annual Conference of the Association of American University Presses
(2012)
Digital Publishing at Utah State University Press
(Michael Spooner)
Annual Conference of Computers and Writing Association
(2011)
One million monkeys: a few thoughts on collaborators and crowds
(Michael Spooner)
Annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans
(2008)
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Balancing books: the problem of scholarly publication in the promotion/tenure process
(Michael Spooner)
Perspectives on Teaching and Scholarship Lecture Series, St. Cloud State University, MN
(2005)
I never intended a career in publishing. In 1983, I was in grad school, trying to redeem an M.A. in literature by getting a more socially responsible M.A. in Teaching ESL, when somehow there was ...