In “The Nyaya Sutras,” book V, Chapter I, Buddha lays out 24 seperate fallacious arguments, providing descriptions and examples for each. While several are slightly confusing and could use more support, they are, for the most part, both familiar and…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Research Proposal
by Mike • • 2 Comments
Mike Calou Research Proposal Rhetoric and Why We Use It to Teach Writing: A New Composition Teacher’s Quest for Understanding As a new teacher to the field of English and composition I have recently started studying rhetoric: what…
The Rhetoric of William Shakespeare in Henry V
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William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. His plays are some of the most widely recognized stories and are read by most students at some point in their school careers. He wrote…
Research Proposal: Incorporating Language Diversity into Composition Pedagogy
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Basic Writing and ESL composition have been criticized as pigeon-holing non-elite students, keeping them from advancing as quickly in academics, and making it more difficult for them to compete with the economically and politically more advantaged social classes. Historically, calls for…
Responses
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Joel Manfredi Responses to Commentary #3 Dr. De Vries I read most of the responses to what we thought of Brueggemann’s article concerning her work at Gallaudet University, and I must say that I agree with what most…
Commentary #3
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Brenda Jo Brueggeman “Still-Life Representations and Silences in the Participant Observer Role” Brenda Jo elicits some very thought provoking questions. She follows in the footsteps of Foucault questioning “what does it matter who is speaking.” She questions the space…
Commentary #3, Brueggemann
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Commentary #3: Brueggemann Maria J. Garcia- 3/10/09 Brenda Jo Brueggemann’s article touched a nerve for me; I really felt a sense of her struggle as she candidly wrote up her experience as a participant-observer of deaf (Deaf) writing students at Gallaudet University…
Commentary 3
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“What difference, I ask, does it make who researches, who writes about, who represents ‘subjects’ in composition research? And what difference does it make how these subjects are represented?” As Brueggemann began her dissertation research, she believed herself a distant…
Commentary Three
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Mike Calou Commentary Three Still Life: Representations and Silences in the Participant-Observer Role In this article the author, Brenda Brueggemann, writes a narrative about her experience doing ethnographic research at a deaf college, Gallaudet University. The author discusses…
Commentary 3: Brueggemann – Really Scary
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The Brueggemann piece fascinates me because she transforms into reality the nightmares I have had about embarking on anything resembling an ethnographic study. I’ve always imagined myself on the other side of that research, say as a subject like Anna,…