Abstract: The annals of literature are riddled with accounts of the fantastic and magical. Literary genre’s have been set aside for it, divided into subcategories, merged, and recombined. One of these genres’ that has currently gone through resurgence is…
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Emig and the defense of technology.
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After reading all of this week’s articles and talking to several classmates I was struck by many people’s resistance to the advance of technologies in the classroom and the promotion of technology as an avenue for learning composition. While I…
Education and Technology
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I found the arguments put forth in Anson’s article, “Distant Voices” intriguing, however, I wonder how much of it is driven by fear of change and the loss of the “academic institution”. I have experienced almost every form of education…
A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing
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Finally!!!! An essay that truly resounds and makes sense to me. Linda Flower and John Hayes’s essay “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” coherently and logically describes the methods in which the process of writing takes place. Through the use…
Writing as a Mode of Learning
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Janet Emig’s article, “Writing as a Mode of Learning” described the ways in which she considered writing to be a unique form of learning compared to other modes of talking, listening, and reading. She categorized writing into two categories. Writing…
Compostion studies and ESL writing
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I found Matsuda’s article on the division of labor in composition studies and ESL writing to be both informative and thought provoking. It was refreshing for me to read an article where the history of the discipline was laid out…
Ethereal Education › Tools — WordPress
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Kristen’s Learning Style: Ethereal Education › Tools — WordPress. Style Scores Visual 9 Social 11 Physical 13 Aural 6 Verbal 7 Solitary 13 Logical 7
Midterm B-2
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Set B-1: Looking at Western, Indian and Chinese classical theories, we can see both similarities and differences. Is it possible to really understand the rhetorical tradition of another culture? Explain why or why not, based on the arguments of Ezzaher…
Midterm A-1
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Set A-1: The relationship between the study of rhetoric and the development of virtue or an ethical sense has been debated since classical times. Discuss how views of this relationship have changed over time, or compare the issue across the…
Rhetoric as a means of solidifying communities
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In Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives, I was struck by his pairing rhetoric with the control of society and communities. When I thought about that concept it seemed completely logical, however, I had never given such a connotation to rhetoric…