The Syllabuses 

noun (plural syllabuses or syllabi /-ˌbī/)

• 1an outline of the subjects in a course of study or teaching:there isn’t time to cover all the syllabuses

In my new job, I inherited a course syllabus.  I begged for permission to use someone's beefed up syllabus, and several teachers were very helpful and shared theirs with me.  They also gave me permission to use their syllabuses until I could tailor my own. 

I had so many good ideas, to make my syllabus easy and approachable, a real pal to the student, a help and a source of delight and information.  That was until my department explained that there were quite a few policies that needed to get in there, word for word.  The legal department really frowns on paraphrase and summary.

Also my children made fun of my cartoons and comic sans font.  

"Really, Mom?  Do you expect anyone to take you seriously?"

Well, that's an interesting rhetorical question.

I take writing quite seriously, but I often wonder at certain highbrow, lofty academics trying to teach college freshman.   If I am going to do my job correctly, then I may need to be the bridge between critical, academic writing and the ever popular "I Can Has Cheesburger" animal memes.

There is room for both types of writing!

      Not in academic papers, but certainly in the culture.  

The "I Can Has Cheezburger?" site (500,000 hits a day) was created by some Hawaiian guys, and the creative language originated from the 4chan site, an English-language imageboard website launched in 2003. 

4chan - Registration is not required, users post anonymously, and there are many different content boards. Originally a hot spot for discussing manga and anime, 4chan was modeled on Japanese imageboards. However, 4chan has been implicated in hijacking Internet destinations for pranks, provoking media attention.  For media planners they are proof that "creativity is everywhere and new media is less accessible to advertisement agencies," says Gawker, a blog by Manhattanite Nick Denton.

Let the cultures meet!  If Composition I is a prescribed paradigm of academia, a box of MLA and APA guidelines, then....