Political Campaigning and the Rhetoric of Marriage: Proposition 8, Schubert & Flint, and the Religious Majority California has long been considered a liberal state on most issues. People from other states often refer to California as “the land of fruits…
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Stoller Commentary 5870
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I hope I am not the only one in our class that enjoyed reading this article by Paul Stoller that beautifully blends the ideas of “Ethnography/Memoir/Imagination/Story.” I think that most Americans have this preconceived notion that storytelling is for children…
Hip-hop and “The Creature”
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In the first chapter, titled “Don’t believe the hype,” of her book author Ann Ferguson confirms my belief that students live up or down to the expectations placed on them by the school system and larger society. I remember from…
Vico Commentary
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This chapter begins with a chastisement of the thoughts of Francis Bacon, who according to Vico acted like a “potentate of [a] mighty empire” that upon reaching the highest ranking available lost all sense of reason and practicality in a…
Commentary # Emig
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In her article, “Writing as a Mode of Learning” author Janet Emig argues that the writing process helps “higher cognitive functions develop most fully only with the support system of verbal language” (Emig 122). This article seems to be in…
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…
Commentary # 9 Pryor
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“Imagining Educational Research? On the Uses of Fiction in Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry” Author Allison Pryor Commentary # 9 As with any good scientific research, ethnography should be untainted by any sense of the emotional. The feelings of the subject and…
Class Log from April 21–Foucault Discussion
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Class Log Tuesday April 21, 2009 Reading: Michael Foucault “Panopticism” Logged by Keri Ortiz Assignment Update -From Dr. DeVries: Select 4 commentaries to be read and commented on by Dr. DeVries. Everyone should have received feedback on at least one…
Class Questions
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1. How do student or teacher stereotypes affect the composition classroom and student writing? 2. “Academia was where we worked but we wanted a life on the outside. We did not want to be imprisoned in the institution of higher…
Commentary Hooks
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“Rebels Dilemma” By Bell Hooks “Academia was where we worked but we wanted a life on the outside. We did not want to be imprisoned in institutions of higher learning that would reward us and then demand that we stop…