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Question #3– Spivak Yes, I agree with Spivak.  I think that over time, if one learns to write well in a normal context, then that same person will have the ability to write for an audience.  In a sense, they…

MaryAnn’s Proposal

MaryAnn Macedo DeVries ENGL 5001 4/22/2010 Paper Proposal For my term paper this semester, I’d like to explore the rhetoric of video game heroines.  Women have long gotten the short end of the stick in the video game and comic…

Decolonization Dilemma

bell hook’s “Rebel’s Dilemma” at first confused me.  I didn’t know what decolonization really was, and she kept repeating the term as if repeating it would actually make such a thing possible.  Now, finally knowing what it is, I’ve come…

ESL Post

The main idea that I got from the first reading of this week is that 2nd language learners have a history of not being represented well in the college English classroom.  In the beginning, it was deemed that anyone who…

Learning TESOL by Doing

In Spring 2009 I volunteered to teach a conversational ESL class without any formal training. My class consisted of 10 students from 7 different countries. All of them tested at the basic level, but their speaking abilities ranged from an…

fox and li

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…

The Right Way to Teach Write

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…

BURKE BABY!

Burke really felt that rhetoric happened from action.  Rhetoric occurs when a person is in the moment a “dramatistic” approach to creating and defining what it is.  I take from this that rhetoric never dies but is a type of…