Foucault Commentary “Part Three: Discipline 3. Panopticism” After reading this article I found that I was extremely bothered by this idea of the all seeing eye that can see us at all times even though we can’t…
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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…
5870 Midterm
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Keri Ortiz ENGL 5870 April 7, 2009 Dr. DeVries #4 Brenda Jo Bruggemann writes about existing in the hyphenated world between participant and researcher. She candidly struggles with her part in the process and the cohabitation of both roles. …
Midterm 5001
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Question A-3 In writing class today, how might a perception that studying rhetoric will lead to virtue manifest itself in pedagogy? You may draw on your experience as a teacher and/or student, as well as our class discussion. It is…
The Loss of the Creature Commentary
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–The highest role of the educator is in the maieutic role of Socrates: to help the student come to himself not as a consumer of experience but as a sovereign individual (Percy 47).In the selection from The Loss of…
Commentary #2 A Rhetoric of Motives by Kenneth Burke
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In the chapter from A Rhetoric of Motives, author Kenneth Burke establishes that rhetoric serves a “realistic function” (Burke 43). He argues that rhetoric serves a purpose in our language–it has a job. Then, as a recurring theme in our…
Goffman Commentary #5
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“The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” Erving Goffman In our society we learn in our early years that first impressions are the most important. They are the standard by which all, or at least most, of our relationships…
5870 Commentary 4 Sunstein
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In our last class, Dr. Devries mentioned an instance where she was shocked to learn that an acclaimed researcher had used a cut and paste method of recounting his research to showcase certain theories. I too was puzzled because…
5001 Proposal Is California still “the land of fruits and nuts?”
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The Rhetoric of the Gay Debate in a Liberal State California has long been considered a liberal state on most issues. People from other states often refer to California as “the land of fruits and nuts” and they aren’t talking…
Commentary #3 Brueggemann
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“Still-Life: Representations and Silences in the Participant Observer Role” Brenda Jo Bruggemann This article presented an interesting and negative approach to ethnographic research. I use the word negative because the researcher seems dissatisfied with her work even though it…