The labor of knowing

In the July 19 Wired, Jonah Lehrer alludes to the joys of fieldwork versus the “drudgery of the lab.” After several years’ work on the Citation Project, I have a much better sense of what he means. We set off on the Citation Project with the objective of having a broad data-based portrait of what [...]

Researching the researcher

Yesterday was the Syracuse Writing Program’s annual Fall Teaching Conference, which might well be called “old faculty reorientation.” Every year we get together and talk about pressing issues in pedagogy and curriculum. This year our topic was our second required writing course, a sophomore-level course focused on research. We convened to consider ways to increase [...]