Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist and author, definitely left a unique mark on Harlem Renaissance literature. In her most significant work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston sends a feminist message about autonomy and remembering one’s experiences; nevertheless, many of her…
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Answering the question, ‘Who do you think you are?’
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
“Who do you think you are?” In the incident that bell hooks relates, that question was meant to shame and humiliate, not prompt “existential self-reflection.” In the original context, the question enforces hurtful boundaries, but that only makes the questioners…
Project Proposal Format
by Kim De Vries • • 2 Comments
Summarize The Project – Take all the information on the project that you have thus far and summarize it briefly, using your own words, in an opening paragraph. This not only helps you get a clearer concept of the project…
Rebel’s Dilemma
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In “Rebel’s Dilemma”, bell hooks writes, “To a grave extent the academy has always been so similar to the dysfunctional patriarchal family hierarchy that hemmed me in as a child that I feel that I can never be truly healthy—well…
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Rearticulating Articulation, Standard English, and other myths.
by Shirley Miranda • • 0 Comments
In Rearticulating Articulation David Russel and David Foster certainly remind us of our sad and detrimental reality. Our educational system as a whole is no better than any other around the world. In fact, the issues of transition between high…
Cultural Snap Phooie
by lminnis209 • • 0 Comments
When you have so many opinions and cultures weighing in on how writing should be taught, it is hard to decide what should be done. One over all questions I thought about as I read was, “Why don’t all educational…
fox and li
by jocias • • 0 Comments
Nothing is “basic” about Tom Fox’s article on basic writing. While initiation theory attempts to bring students of all kinds into one homogenous group, it ignores the cultural differences of students and promotes a single-minded approach towards writing. This rings…
How to learn to write?
by uzma • • 0 Comments
This week reading is really interesting and thought provoking and raised one question will we ever have a consensus on anything in this world? No one can deny the reality that English is the Lingua Franca of the world…
The Right Way to Teach Write
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
The readings of this week highlight the difficulty of teaching writing within a culturally diverse world and the problems students face transitioning from their secondary education to the university. In Foster and Russell’s text “Rearticulating Articulation”, the authors create a…