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An Introduction to MLA Documentation

This short podcast (with images) will help you get the basics of MLA documentation, and will be especially useful to students in introductory literature classes.

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Podcast by Nancy Linh Karls, Mike Shapiro and Brad Hughes.

posted 6.9.08

 

Research Podcast: Deborah Brandt

This four-part podcast is the first of our series spotlighting current research on writing. In each of these four podcasts, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Deborah Brandt covers a different aspect of her fascinating research on writing and writers.

Deborah Brandt 

1. Deborah Brandt on Ghostwriting
In this 17-minute podcast, Professor Deborah Brandt--a renowned literacy scholar in the composition and rhetoric program in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison--discusses her fascinating recent research on ghostwriting and what ghostwriting signals about shifting values in literacy.

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2."Writers Are Becoming Many": Deborah Brandt on Her Current Research
In this nine-minute podcast, Deborah Brandt discusses her current research project--on the rise of writing as a mass skill in the United States and on the roles that the workplace plays in stimulating literacy and changing the values around literacy in the new knowledge economy.

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3. Deborah Brandt on Literacy in American Lives
In this 13-minute podcast, Deborah Brandt reflects on her award-winning and influential 2001 book about the changing conditions for literacy learning for ordinary people in the United States.  She also discusses literacy studies more generally, her teaching, and some of the values that guide her scholarly writing.

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4. Deborah Brandt on Graduate Study in Composition and Rhetoric
In this four-minute coda, Deborah Brandt discusses what an exciting time it is to do graduate study in composition and rhetoric.

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Interviews and editing by Brad Hughes.

audio posted 5.28.08; transcripts posted 7.17.08

"It's so convenient!" The UW-Madison Writing Center's Chat Conferencing

This 6-minute podcast features two UW-Madison students who use the Writing Center's Chat Conferencing service. Listen, and you'll learn all you need to know about using this great and innovative service!

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Interviews and editing by Annette Vee.

audio posted 5.05.08; transcript posted 7.17.08

Write This Way to the J-School:
An Interview with Robert Schwoch

In this 16-minute podcast, you'll hear an engaging interview with Robert Schwoch, an adviser in the Undergraduate School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Learn how the undergraduate application process works, and how not to "be part of the crowd" in your application essay!

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Interview and additional editing by Mike Shapiro.

posted 4.24.08

Nancy Linh Karls is the voice that will guide you through all of the podcasts at the UW-Madison Writing Center.

 Nancy Linh Karls

Editing and production of podcasts by Brad Hughes and Nancy Linh Karls.

The music you hear in our podcasts is "Impossible Edge" © 2004 Ryk A. Groetchen: windrag@windrag.org. Used with permission.

The UW-Madison Writing Center gratefully acknowledges the support of an Engage Podcasting Plus Grant and an Impact Grant from the Division of Information Technology at UW-Madison, and we deeply appreciate the expertise of Blaire Bundy, Jasun Carr, Luiz Lopes, Michelle Glenetski, and Jan Cheetham.