Monthly Archives: March 2009

Wk 3/CM#2

Adam Russell Professor DeVries English 5870 1 May 2009 Week #3/Commentary #2   The Distribution of Power in the Classroom   The successful teacher understands that the learning process is something that never ends. However, a power relationship should exist…

Ruth Ray is optimistic about “the influence of teacher research on education” (187). I like Keri and others am surprised that teacher research is a new movement. However, I am learning that ‘new’ ideas in the world of education are…

Commentary 2

Ruth Ray focuses on the context of the classroom and the community when talking about effective teacher research. University research that deals in mass generalizations and standardized testing does little to help in teaching students. The main reason for this…

Research Paper Details

Term Papers: I am asking you to identify a question about rhetoric , rhetorical theory, composition, or composition theory to explore during the term and to report on at the end.  This assignment is built to mimic professional genres as…

Commentary #2 — Ruth Ray

“Compositions from the Teacher-Research Point of View” by Ruth Ray I found that Ray’s article suggests that teacher research is looked down upon by the currently accepted field of university researchers. Why? I offer that the ruling ideology has to…

5870 Commentary #2Ray

Commentary #2 “Compositions from the Teacher-Research Point of View” Ruth Ray In our last reading we learned that to be an ethnographic researcher, an observer had the following two possibilities for approaching the target group. One option has the researchers…

Commentary 2

As an active consultant for the Great Valley Writing Project and the National Writing Project, I will not hesitate to say that for me Ruth Ray’s article is like “the shot heard around the world.” It is time for teachers…

Ray- Commentary Week 3

Maria Shreve English 5870 Dr. DeVries March 3, 2008               Up until this class, I really haven’t thought about teacher-research, per se.  While I was getting my teaching credential years ago, we did observations, but the observations were more…

Commentary #2

Joel Manfredi buy cheap essays English 5870 Dr. Devries Commentary #2     In “Composition from the Teacher-Research Point of View,” Ruth Ray seems to put a value on who is doing the research in classrooms as opposed to what…

When Rhetoric Can’t Win

An audience can be swayed by factors outside the rhetoric realm. This was briefly mentioned in class on Thursday when the Kennedy/Nixon debate was discussed. Radio listeners thought Nixon won the debate, but television viewers considered Kennedy the winner. Nixon…