The perspective, neither on the outside looking in, nor on the inside looking out, hooks’ place, a “trangression of borders,” allows us to learn about the ideological forces that both constrain and liberate us.
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Still Hungry? Fear in the Teacherless Classroom
by mbond • • 0 Comments
Is there a point in the teacherless classroom when people stop being polite? I’m not sure I’m looking forward to that experience. That is perhaps why I always wait for the last minute when a “paper is so late [I] finally stop worrying about how it will be perceived.” However, I’m not sure that the fear comes just from the thought of my peers’ honest responses. Instead it comes from an imagined amalgam of all those past hella smart and articulate peers I have encountered, and their (not my) even more hella smart profs.
Political Campaigning and the Rhetoric of Marriage: Proposition 8, Schubert & Flint, and the Religious Majority
by Keri • • 0 Comments
Political Campaigning and the Rhetoric of Marriage: Proposition 8, Schubert & Flint, and the Religious Majority California has long been considered a liberal state on most issues. People from other states often refer to California as “the land of fruits…
Janet Emig, Final Commentary :)
by Rachel • • 0 Comments
In “Writing as a Mode of Learning,” Janet Emig takes a rather unique stand both in how she views writing and in how she defines it as a learning process. She describes writing as heuristic, and by that, it seems…
Part of ethnography is the life of the observer…
by James • • 2 Comments
I have been moving all week, and had very limited net access, mostly just through my phone. That has slowed me down, but I am going to be done with the memoir of this semester very soon, and I will…
Why Harry Potter? The Rhetorical Elements that Singled Out the Harry Potter Franchise as a Source of Evil within Youth Fiction
by Kristen Phipps • • 0 Comments
Abstract: The annals of literature are riddled with accounts of the fantastic and magical. Literary genre’s have been set aside for it, divided into subcategories, merged, and recombined. One of these genres’ that has currently gone through resurgence is…
Where Sleeping Giants Lie: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Shaping of American Literature
by Rachel • • 0 Comments
Abstract: Do eighteenth-century American women writers have a place inside the classroom or the canon, and if not, does their work merit such a place?Where Sleeping Giants Lie This project seeks to find whether or not women were writing in…
Janet Emig
by sbahadur • • 0 Comments
Janet Emig Writing is an integral part of the learning process. Emig states that writing represents a unique mode of learning – not merely valuable, not merely special, but unique (122). According to Emig, Writing is originating and creating a…
Advertising Awareness
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Tina Bell English 5001 28 May 2009 Advertising Awareness One lazy Saturday afternoon, I sat relaxing in my living room watching a favorite television program. I soon became irritated by the consistent interruption of the commercials. Approximately fifteen commercials appeared…
Gayatri Spivak
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Spivak In an interview by Philip Sipiora and Janet Atwill, Spivak gives some insights to the aspect of Rhetoric and writing. She has also given some hints on Women’s writing and women’s teaching. When asked to define rhetoric , Spivak…