Mike Calou 3-26-09 Commentary Week Six The Path to a New Rhetoric At this point in the semester I think a brief chronology of our rhetoric studies is appropriate. This “walk” through the history of rhetoric is not meant to…
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Commentary Five
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Mike Calou Commentary Five All the World’s A Communicative Stage There is a lot to discuss about this week’s reading: communication viewed as a theatrical production, the actor-witness as participant-observer, who controls the communication process, projecting a definition of…
The Circle of Education
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Mike Calou Commentary Week Five In the excerpt from the “Study Methods of Our Time”, Giambattista Vico is comparing the study methods of the ancients with the modern (18th century) methods. Vico says that the ancient methods had merit. The…
Commentary Four
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Mike Calou Commentary Four My over-riding thought, as I read the “Culture on the Page: Experience, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in Ethnographic Writing,” by Bonnie Sunstein, was that this essay is giving me some tools to write up and document my…
Commentary Week Four
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Mike Calou Commentary Week Four Rethinking Rhetoric from an Indian Perspective: Implications in the Nyaya Sutra It appears from the readings about Indian rhetoric that there were some misconceptions when western rhetoricians first began analyzing the rhetoric of…
Research Proposal
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Mike Calou Research Proposal Rhetoric and Why We Use It to Teach Writing: A New Composition Teacher’s Quest for Understanding As a new teacher to the field of English and composition I have recently started studying rhetoric: what…
Commentary Three
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Mike Calou Commentary Three Still Life: Representations and Silences in the Participant-Observer Role In this article the author, Brenda Brueggemann, writes a narrative about her experience doing ethnographic research at a deaf college, Gallaudet University. The author discusses…
Commentary Two
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Mike Calou English 5870 Dr. Devries March 1, 2009 Commentary Number Two Ruth Ray The main idea of this article is that teacher research does not need to exist in a vacuum. Teachers are the “meat” in the…
Paired Observation
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Mike Calou English 5870 Dr. Devries February 28, 2009 Paired Observation Partner: Ned Weidner Time: 5:30-5:51pm Place: Mom’s Java House, CSU Stanislaus Question: How do people interact? What ways do people interact when ordering and working at a coffee…
Purcell-Gates Commentary
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Michael Calou Dr. Devries English 5870 February 24, 2009 Ethnographic Research Commentary #1 The author provides an introduction to the process of ethnographic research. The two other readings for this week, “Rewriting” and “An Ethnographic Perspective” complement…