I found this article by Linda Flower and John Hayes fascinating. As they state at the end of the article, “Writers and teachers of writing have long argued that one learns through the act of writing itself, but it has…
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Commentary Week Eleven
by Mike • • 0 Comments
Eureka, I Have Found It: Writing Teachers as Enablers of Discovery In the process of writing there is not one sure fire method that will work for every writer. Some writers need to plan and organize their thoughts while other…
Covino Commentary
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Covino Commentary “Grammars of Transgression: Golems, Cyborgs, and Mutants” At first I must admit confusion because I could not see where a discussion of the Hebrew “Golem” was going to lead into a discussion of rhetoric. Then this line, “‘Mistakes…
Technology in the Classroom
by Adam • • 2 Comments
The ideas presented in Distant Voices are ones that I find particularly interesting. The idea of using technology to enhance teaching, or even as a primary means of teaching, are ones that I believe will help students. As is pointed…
Composing Composition: A presentation by Kathy Rowley on using technology in a First Year Writing Class
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
Kathy used technology in a variety of ways in her first year writing class, English 1002. She has created a power point presentation to illustrate how. I converted a very elaborate PowerPoint presentation into a PDF, so apologies for it…
Commentary of Pryer
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Maria J. Garcia Commentary for 4/28/09 “Imagining Educational Research: On the Uses of Fiction in Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry” Author: Allison Pryer Allison Pryer’s article brings up, when quoting Kathleen Rockhill “the boundaries of the speakable” and the concept of…
Commentary – Pryer
by Amble • • 4 Comments
“The writing of memoir may be understood as a hermeneutical process that serves as entry point into a community of discursive relationships. It is a living practice, at once hopeful and uncertain, which necessarily involves the creation of fictions –…
Pryer commentary
by nweidner • • 2 Comments
I too am sometimes disenchanted with academia because the required writing style and research methods can be so rigid and don’t often allow much for voice, regardless of what some research and scholars want us to believe. Pryer attempts to…
On Pryer, Ethnology, and Memoir—Huginn and Muninn
by James • • 1 Comment
James D. Dyer Dr. Kim DeVries ENG 5870 Spring 2009 Working “at the edge of incompetence” is what Elliot Eisner (in Saks (Ed.), 1996,p. 412) calls the risky practice of courting the unknown in one’s research practice. If we can…
English 5870 Pryer: Ultimately Unclear
by fsnowden • • 1 Comment
At first glance, Pryer’s article seems to cover the same issues as Brueggemann, Sunstein and in some ways Purcell-Gates. Like Brueggemann, she describes issues of personal struggle when dealing with academic research and similar to Sunstein, she suggests the use…