CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog.
Changing purposes and composition of UK higher education increases the challenge of providing effective and timely academic writing development. User-group representatives identified the dissertation as a part of the student experience that is especially challenging and where students often lack appropriate support. Many technological solutions for writing development have been tried with varying degrees of success. ADE creates a step change by using social software to both develop a reflective, critical voice and to provide networked social support for UG and PG dissertation writing based on sound pedagogical models, using authentic examples, and following Web 2.0 tenets.
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Sarah Van Norman is working on a Masters of Philosophy in Ethnic and Racial Studies. What's her dissertation topic? The working title is "The esoteric underpinnings of hand knitting in late modernity: An auto ethnographic exploration into knitting circles among university students in Canada".
Honing your skills * Read lots. I mean LOTS. I subscribe to about thirty magazines in my field and every time I fly I buy five magazines that I would never normally read. I also get a dozen emails from mailing lists every day and look at a lot of web