Author Archive for Adam

Rough Draft

http://files.me.com/thecrazynomad/luezrr This is the link to my .doc.   You can upload the edited files at: http://public.me.com/thecrazynomad

Technology in the Classroom

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…

Orientalism

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…

Teaching for Voice

The teaching of alternative dialects of English has always been a difficult subject. Many of the teachers I have personally experienced in my early education were clearly the product of a prescriptivist “Deficit Theory” approach. (Fox 65) It wasn’t until…

Elbow and the Teacherless Classroom

Peter Elbow presents an interesting concept on how writing should be taught in the classroom. Where traditional teaching involves students writing papers and a single teacher grading them based on what he or she believes to be good writing, Elbow…

Midterm Responses

The relationship between the study of rhetoric and the development of virtue or an ethical sense has been debated since classical times. A1. Discuss how views of this relationship have changed over time, or compare the issue across the Greek/Roman,…

Words as distraction

I found the concept of terministic screens presented by Burke to be a very interesting one. The idea that the way we construct an argument and the word choices we make affect our interpretations. We see examples of this constantly.…

Bain and Rhetoric

In Bain’s English Composition and Rhetoric we are presented with a complete break down of the parts involved in rhetoric. He divides these based on what each is intended to influence. For, instance poetics is a form of rhetoric intended…