Martial Arts & Liberal Education

Levine, Donald N. "Martial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education," in Japanese Martial Arts and American sports, 173-87.

Texts on Combat/War which Include Training

Chris Hedges: What Every Person Should Know About WarThin anti-war book with Q&A as primary format.

Jonathan Shay: Achilles in Vietnam (Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character)Subtitle says it all.
Suggested from WPA list.

Jonathan Shay: Odysseus in America (Combat Truma and the Trials of Homecoming)Subtitle says it all
Suggested from WPA list.

E. B. Sledge: With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and OkinawaMemoir/history of a Marine who served in WW2 at Peleliu. Clear writing, graphic description, basics about training/coherence in unit.
Suggested from WPA list.

Acquire Mental Lubricants in Advance

I am in the final stretch, and my brain is hurting. I am sure teaching while doing PhD work is going to be equally or more intense. Thus, I need to make sure that I have a set or three of DVDs and/or books as end-of-term mental lubricants to ease my brain during the stress.

Purchase in advance for sanity.

Comics & Graphic Novels: Primers

To get a foothold on graphic novels/comics:

Scott McCloud’s "Understanding Comics" and other books on comics
Will Eisner's "Comics and Sequential Art"

Student Status via eRaider, etc.

I have checked back intermittently at eRaider and the associated TTU sites (how they flow is still not entirely clear to me) and have noticed that my status has been updated each time I go back. What this means is that I can now access some materials at the library, I can see my financial aid status--no record--and so on.

I urge anyone new to the program to invest several hours, if not more, in attempting to understand the set-up. For me, it is far from intuitive.

Similarly, prepare to spend time learning how to navigate the library's database/journal pages. Maybe I'm brain dead from reading so many papers, and maybe the design is poor, but my last couple attempts to navigate have gone poorly.

Reducing Conference Costs

Per Sally's suggestion, watch for opportunities to attend pre-conference workshops and/or help out with workshops during the conference. This could help reduce or avoid specific workshop costs/fees.

Conferences to Attend

Per the list's and Peter's suggestions of possible conferences to attend:

Conference on College Composition and Communication - CCCCs
Association for Teachers of Technical Writing: ATTW
Council for Programs on Technical and Scientific Communication: CPTSC
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers--Professional Communication Section: IEEE-PCS
Association for Computing Machinery: ACM
National Council for Teachers of English: NCTE

Any additional professional organizations related to my research interests