English 5001

Rough Draft

http://files.me.com/thecrazynomad/luezrr This is the link to my .doc.   You can upload the edited files at: http://public.me.com/thecrazynomad

Research Draft

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…

Vico Commentary

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

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…

JUST VIEW IT AND FORWARD IT!–NOT!

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+

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…

Giambatista Vico

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…