Mike Calou Commentary Four My over-riding thought, as I read the “Culture on the Page: Experience, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in Ethnographic Writing,” by Bonnie Sunstein, was that this essay is giving me some tools to write up and document my…
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Commentary #4
by Joel • • 3 Comments
Joel Manfredi adobe photoshop cs6 trial download English 5870 Dr. De Vries Commentary #4 I had never heard the word “liminal” before in my life, but now feel as though I know it well. “The point where one…
Research Proposal – Murder Mystery
by annacole1 • • 1 Comment
I propose to write a rhetorical analysis of the Murder Mystery genre, specifically focusing on P.D. James’ novel, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. I am interested in Murder Mysteries because they are mental puzzles. The reader must examine…
Keeping it Real: Exploring Essential and Real World Ways to Motivate Students in the Writing Classroom
by mbond • • 1 Comment
I teach Junior and Senior English at a local alternative ed school. My year so far has been spent trying to perfect a balance between teaching the “essential” state mandated standards my district pacing calendar requires and teaching the real…
Commentary on “Still Life,” There ain’t no such thing.
by James • • 1 Comment
James D. Dyer Dr. Kim DeVries ENG 5870 Spring 2009 Writing from the Hyphen And so I am asking myself now: Can I write it again another way? Can I write from the hyphen? […]because of those views…
Research Proposal
by tbell • • 4 Comments
I’m still having trouble narrowning my focus. But here goes. During one hour of televison, many commercial advertisments will air. Some of these advertisements seem foreign to me, and my only explanataion for my lack of any connection with the commercial…
A New Thought
by tbell • • 0 Comments
Tina Bell Dr. De Vries 5001 Commentary Week 4 12 March 2009 A New Thought I guess I’m just going to admit that I struggled greatly with the reading this week. During the past few days, I have considered…
The use of rhetorical and compositonal elements in the Harry Potter series.
by Kristen Phipps • • 3 Comments
I would like to research the rhetorical and compositional elements used in youth fiction, specifically the Harry Potter series, and to investigate what arguments are being made and the devices used to influence those arguments. This research area is important…
The Rhetoric of Women in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature
by Rachel • • 3 Comments
I have read and studied quite a bit of women’s literature as an English major, but upon taking this class, I find myself wondering about the rhetorical devices and strategies at play in not only the works I have studied…
Paper Proposal: Making the Composition Classroom Make Sense
by Mariana • • 2 Comments
When I observed an English 1000 class last semester which required students to write all the standard forms of essays, (argumentative, persuasive, etc), I felt like each topic worked independently of itself and that these students were jumping from place-to-place…