Women’s magazines are a prominent presence in society. Walk into a Target and it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to walk through the check-out without catching a glance of Marie Claire, Glamour, or Cosmopolitan if not all three. Magazines such…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
ESL Post
by Joel • • Comments Off
The main idea that I got from the first reading of this week is that 2nd language learners have a history of not being represented well in the college English classroom. In the beginning, it was deemed that anyone who…
Project Proposal
by kmontero • • 3 Comments
“The sprawled body of a young girl lay crushed on the sidewalk the other day after a plunge from the fifth story of a Chicago apartment house. Everyone called it suicide, but actually it was murder. The killer was a…
The Rhetoric of Sales: Infomercials in the Composition Classroom
by jgreene • • 2 Comments
For my final paper, I plan on engaging in a two-fold research project. The end result will produce a product that can hopefully be used in the composition classroom in order to educate students on various rhetorical strategies and how…
Matsuda
by jocias • • 0 Comments
Of course ESL students have different cultural backgrounds, education, and language proficiency as Matsuda mentions in his essay. Ignoring these elements of students only increases the difficulty of teaching them English. I was surprised to read that in 1939 I.A.…
Composition vs. Linguistics
by jgreene • • 0 Comments
“Well DUH!” This was my continued feeling as I read through Paul K. Matsuda’s article “Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor.” Of course specialized ESL courses are necessary for second-language speakers. As Matsuda gives the history…
Hooks’ Dilemma and our/our students’ writings
by Shirley Miranda • • 0 Comments
In Hooks’ Rebel’s Dilemma one can almost feel her pain. A pain caused by her culture, her family, her profession, her academia, and her own writing. The struggle to alleviate this pain becomes then a central focus, a mission to search for…
Proposal
by jocias • • 0 Comments
Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist and author, definitely left a unique mark on Harlem Renaissance literature. In her most significant work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston sends a feminist message about autonomy and remembering one’s experiences; nevertheless, many of her…
Answering the question, ‘Who do you think you are?’
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
“Who do you think you are?” In the incident that bell hooks relates, that question was meant to shame and humiliate, not prompt “existential self-reflection.” In the original context, the question enforces hurtful boundaries, but that only makes the questioners…
Project Proposal Format
by Kim De Vries • • 2 Comments
Summarize The Project – Take all the information on the project that you have thus far and summarize it briefly, using your own words, in an opening paragraph. This not only helps you get a clearer concept of the project…