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English 5001
Research Draft
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Mike Calou Research Draft 5/7/09 Why is it Important to be Culturally Aware When We Teach English Composition? A New Composition Teacher’s Quest for Understanding The teaching of the writing can be compared to a dance; both partners have to…
Rhetoric, Professionalism, and More Rhetoric–Matsuda Commentary
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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…
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…
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts Tyteca
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Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts – Tyteca Chain Perelman and Olbrechts Tyteca have given useful insights on the theory of argumentation. Perelman and Tyteca’s focus is on Rhetoric. Both focus on the ancient rhetoric, which was the art of Public…
JUST VIEW IT AND FORWARD IT!–NOT!
by Kathy • • 1 Comment
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…
Giambatista Vico
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Giambatista Vico Vico focuses on the study methods of the ancients and modern times. His views discuss how present study methods are better than the study methods of the past, and ways in which the inferior study methods of the…