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…
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Ray- Commentary Week 3
by mariashreve • • 2 Comments
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
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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
by Kent • • 0 Comments
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?
by fsnowden • • 2 Comments
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
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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
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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
by James • • 1 Comment
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
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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
by Kim De Vries • • 2 Comments
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…