The reading — Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor Paul Kei Matsuda In this Article Paul Kei Matsuda describes the what writing teachers encounter when embarking on composition studies for ESL writers. ESL has historically…
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Commentary Week Ten
by Mike • • 1 Comment
Commentary Week Ten Western Supremacy and Composition In this week’s reading I believe there are two central issues. The first issue is related to the elitist attitudes of the “Western” world and the approach the West takes to view…
Compostion studies and ESL writing
by Kristen Phipps • • 0 Comments
I found Matsuda’s article on the division of labor in composition studies and ESL writing to be both informative and thought provoking. It was refreshing for me to read an article where the history of the discipline was laid out…
Thoughts on Orientalism Reconsidered
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The Reading— Orientalism Reconsidered by Edward W. Said The Said reading was not my favorite one. My interest for Orientalism is waning. I thought this reading was going to be an account of rhetorical practices like the Xing Lu readings,…
Binary in Spivak
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The reading—-Rhetoric and Cultural Explanation: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak In this interview of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, I found it interesting that Spivak does not give an exact definition of Rhetoric when asked. Rhetoric in our modern time is…
Foucault
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Joel Manfredi Journal Entry “Panopticon” Dr. De Vries English 5870 In reading Michel Foucault’s “Panopticism,” I get a strong sense of the type of discipline that most teachers are looking for in their classrooms. It is, that…
bell hooks, “Rebel’s Dilemma,” commentary
by lmarik • • 1 Comment
In her short piece, “Rebel’s Dilemma,” bell hooks describes the balance between being an academic and a “rebel,” as she states the following: “Academia was where we worked but we wanted a life on the outside. We did not…
Orientalism
by Adam • • 1 Comment
Edward Said presents some interesting notions on the idea of Orientalism, as both a concept and as a field of study. Said’s concepts are similar to some of the readings we have done earlier in that he explains the difficulties…
Changing Bodies
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Changing Bodies Educational organizations are constantly looking at the establishment theory and practice. As Spivak associates conventions he states, “Rhetoric sees itself not as creating a balance between theory and practice, but rather as ‘inhabiting a kind of productive…
Spivak
by Mariana • • 1 Comment
I really liked what Spivak had to say about reconciliation between theory and practice ever happening. I too, feel that this is something that is impossible to achieve, especially when one considers that theory and practice depend on the culture…