This is an exceptional article for laying adequate groundwork to encompass the very broad very expansive subject that is cross-national compositional perspective. As soon as I was through the introduction, I found myself wanting to read the specifics of their…
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Commentary 3 & Commentary 4 5001
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“Language Diversity in Teacher Education” Growing up, I was the victim of an ‘old school’ English teacher mother. To this day, any time I utter something that is less than perfect American English I can see her right eye twitch…
Classical Crashings of Writing and Change- Commentary
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Near the beginning of this essay, Li claims that educators are wary of tampering with China’s “brilliant literary tradition,” choosing instead to honor and preserve the moral and educational trends of the past (51), but as we dive further into…
Commentary Week Eight
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Mike Calou Commentary Week Eight The boy who seen the light I was torn by conflicting ideas when I finished reading the Tom Fox article “Basic Writing As Cultural Conflict.” One part of me thinks that teaching writing, particularly at…
Mid-term ENGL 5870
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Ned Weidner ENGL 5870 Dr. DeVries 4/8/09 1) Developing and articulating a working definition of ethnography is important to me so that I can better understand the work we are doing this semester as ethnographers. However, developing a concrete…
Commentary: Preparing Them for Remediation?
by lmarik • • 1 Comment
I found Rearticulating Articulation by Russell and Foster a fascinating read. A “cross-national perspective” really does shift the way one looks at oneself, one’s culture, and in this case, one’s educational system. I didn’t realize that the United States…
The Battlefield
by dhamilton3 • • 1 Comment
A battlefield can provoke many different images in one’s mind. We see open fields amass with Redcoats and Bluecoats; painted warriors charging upon the enemy; snipers poised in their high towers, taking down one man at a time; bombs…
5870 Mid-Term
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Amble Hollenhorst Dr. Kim De Vries ENGL 5870 Question 2: The question of subjectivity is an important one to discuss because it is virtually impossible for us as people to be entirely objective about the things that we witness. We…
Chat transcript from missed class 3/12
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Transcript from 3/12 “cyber class,” abridged and edited to summarize and to remove chat formatting interference, with a brief summary at the end.
Midterm Response – Question 1 & 3
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_________ Faye Snowden April 7, 2009 Dr. De Vries Midterm Question 1 & 3 The Question 1. Drawing on the scholars we have studied so far, develop a definition of ethnography as the field relates to the composition…