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Commentary 2

As an active consultant for the Great Valley Writing Project and the National Writing Project, I will not hesitate to say that for me Ruth Ray’s article is like “the shot heard around the world.” It is time for teachers…

Ray- Commentary Week 3

Maria Shreve English 5870 Dr. DeVries March 3, 2008               Up until this class, I really haven’t thought about teacher-research, per se.  While I was getting my teaching credential years ago, we did observations, but the observations were more…

Commentary #2

Joel Manfredi buy cheap essays English 5870 Dr. Devries Commentary #2     In “Composition from the Teacher-Research Point of View,” Ruth Ray seems to put a value on who is doing the research in classrooms as opposed to what…

When Rhetoric Can’t Win

An audience can be swayed by factors outside the rhetoric realm. This was briefly mentioned in class on Thursday when the Kennedy/Nixon debate was discussed. Radio listeners thought Nixon won the debate, but television viewers considered Kennedy the winner. Nixon…

Week 3 Ray: There is a hierarchy?

The deeper I get into the graduate program, the more I understand as I have never understood before the existing hierarchies in educational and literary studies. But never in my wildest dreams did I think that a hierarchy which privileged…

Commentary Two

Mike Calou English 5870 Dr. Devries March 1, 2009 Commentary Number Two Ruth Ray               The main idea of this article is that teacher research does not need to exist in a vacuum.  Teachers are the “meat” in the…

Paired Observation

Mike Calou English 5870 Dr. Devries February 28, 2009   Paired Observation Partner: Ned Weidner Time: 5:30-5:51pm Place: Mom’s Java House, CSU Stanislaus Question:  How do people interact?  What ways do people interact when ordering and working at a coffee…

James’s reply to Carolyn Frank

  Response to Carolyn Frank’s, “An Ethnographic Perspective:”   I read this with interest and was impressed by Frank’s ability to identify the cultural bias in her perspective through reading other people’s interpretation of events. Most people do not do…

Purcell-Gates reading response

While I have long been familiar with ethnographic research due to my background in sociology, this essay struck me as being very useful to both the novice, and to the experienced ethnographer because it covers the field in enough detail…

Week 3 — Classical Chinese Rhetoric

Lu Xing Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at DePaul University and the author of Rhetoric in Ancient China: Fifth to Third Century B.C.E.: A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric, Lu has also published many journal articles and book…