I want to thank Dr. Devries for including the article by Paul Kei Matsuda, “Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor” in the class readings. The article presents a history of how teaching English as a second…
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I'm married to a great guy, and have three grown sons. The youngest is set to graduate from Cal Poly from the Engineering Department this June. All three sons have wonderful wives, and we have five beautiful grandchildren. I came in to the English profession a bit late graduating from CSU Stanislaus in 1997. I've been teaching high school English since then.
JUST VIEW IT AND FORWARD IT!–NOT!
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In our last class meeting Mike suggested that the “light bulb” should be coming on for us by this time in the semester and Dr. Devries responded, “We would hope”. That got me thinking about what I have learned from…
Emig, Flowers, and Hayes – 3D+
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After reading Janet Emig’s article “Writing as a Mode of Learning” and Linda Flower and John R. Hayes’ article, “A Cognitive process Theory of Writing”, I feel like I’ve finally put on my 3-D glasses at “A Bug’s Life” at…
bell hooks Stretches the Concept of Colonization
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In “Rebel’s Dilemma” bell hooks describes her “struggle to break from the impositions of images that don’t represent [her] accurately or well” as a black woman both in “the homefront and in the public world”(1). The struggle, she states, is…
5001 Midterm A2 and B1
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Download the original attachment Essay A2—Explain the classical and Enlightenment definitions of rhetoric and propose a contemporary definition. Account for differences between the three. Classical Rhetoric Classical rhetoricians are quite concerned with the idea of truth although there…
Simplify the Complex? (Com. #2–5001)
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In spite of all his trash talking, Peter Ramus presents an interesting Argument in Rhetoric Against Quintilian. Ramus seems to be quite opposed to Quintilian’s muddling of the definitions of artistic domains. Specifically, he wants to distinguish the art of…
Liu–Comparative Rhetoric is Tricky (#1)
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Seemingly, it is human nature to try and reach an understanding of a lesser known concept in terms of a similar well known concept. In contrastive rhetoric, for example, scholars compare Western rhetorical traditions to that of other cultures…
Reasearch Proposal
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I propose to examine the extent to which current standards and trends in teaching composition to high school students support language acquisition for mainstreamed intermediate English learners. I will explore several questions using both primary and secondary sources. Do current…