As soon as I read the title of this reading I became very curious. I thought I had finally found proof of what my parents thought was a very poor way of studying when I was in high school. I…
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Technology Necessary …..Evil?
by simi dhaliwal • • 0 Comments
Selber’s larger plan is clear. He argues that students need to be producers (not just users) of digital text and that these texts will largely be of a kind that “defy the established purview of English departments” and move instead…
Reading Response 5-6-10
by Joel • • Comments Off
The first article from Janet Emig does an interesting job reminding us of how we learn. I used to use a similar idea when I would tell my students to use flash cards for memorization because it uses all the…
Week 12: The Impact of Science
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
After reading this week’s articles, I found myself to be relieved and self-assured. All the hours spent hunched over my computer, fingers twisted, eyes shot, in the dark of my room, transcribing the “web of meaning” in my head onto…
Speaking vs. Writing in the World of Technology
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
My sister is a talker. Growing up, she was able to convince my parents of much more than I could. In high school, she was her class president. As her college education comes to a close, she finds herself working…
The Cognitive Theory Process of Composing: Where Have You Been Hiding?
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
For most of my college career, I have felt as if there must be something a little askew about the way that my writing process works. I have never been comfortable with the models that have been most often recommended—the…
Spivak & the struggle between theory and practice
by Shirley Miranda • • 0 Comments
The first question posed this week for discussion addresses perhaps one of the most fundamental issues currently affecting education in our nation. The diversion between theory and practice whether it is that of composition, teaching k-12 or teaching ESL is…
Spivak: Loosely Defined Ideas Left for Interrogation
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
Spivak’s discourse in itself, regardless of meaning, seems to be a rebellion against phallocentric language. Her ideas lack rigid definitions and are transcribed in a nonlinear way. Unfortunately, though I try to be as aware as possible to the systems…
Discussion Questions for Post-colonial Theory
by kmontero • • 8 Comments
Hello My Fellow Classmates and Scholarly Friends! For this weeks readings, the focus was centered upon the ideologies of two enormously influential, much debated literary theorists, known mutually for their significant contributions to Postcolonialism. Although difficult to define, as most…
Connecting with the Audience
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
I wasn’t a huge fan of Gayatri Spivak; I found some of her responses to be cold and political—“I can’t really comment on what goes on in the discipline of rhetoric” (2), “A domestication, a circumscription” (5), and “It is…