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24 Scholarship, Remix, and the Database

When the Last Database You Search Is Not Your Own

Opening Questions
In light of Rhetoric and Composition's many field narratives, where are our databasic sensibilities leading us?
How might our databasic sensibilities guide us differently with respect to recent or long-standing field narratives?

Two prevailing approaches to archiving: outsourced and in-sourced, or field-sourced.

Add to this a third approach, network sourced. Why? If we recognize what is valuable in
enigmatic, fatigable collections, commonplace approaches to archivization may be productively
redefined. That is, a curatorial ethics for Rhetoric and Composition must incorporate network-
sourced logics.

Examples of this third databasic formation include

1. Blogged Reading Notes – Advanced Graduate Students

A Collage of Citations - http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/
Michael Faris, Penn State

Digital Bibliography - http://ryantrauman.com/blog/

Ryan Trauman, Louisville

Revolution Lullabye - http://revolutionlullabye.wordpress.com/

Laura Davies, Syracuse

II. Rhetoric and Composition Carnivals

John Trimbur's "Changing the Question: Should Writing Be Studied?"
http://porquoipas.blogspot.com/2007/01/belatedly-trimbur-and-writing-studies.html
http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2007/02/joining-the-trimbur-carnival/

Richard Fulkerson's "Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century"

http://culturecat.net/node/852

Karen Kopelson's "Sp(l)itting Images; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition"
http://www.earthwidemoth.com/mt/archives/001896.html

A more rigorous, integrated curatorial ethic(s) is necessary before we can realize a

symbiogenetic relationship between field narratives (i.e., discipliniographies) and databases.

Works Cited
http://delicious.com/dmueller/cccc10

Derek N. Mueller • Eastern Michigan University • derek.mueller@emich.edu