Kathy used technology in a variety of ways in her first year writing class, English 1002. She has created a power point presentation to illustrate how. I converted a very elaborate PowerPoint presentation into a PDF, so apologies for it…
English 5870
Commentary of Pryer
by mgarcia5 • • 5 Comments
Maria J. Garcia Commentary for 4/28/09 “Imagining Educational Research: On the Uses of Fiction in Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry” Author: Allison Pryer Allison Pryer’s article brings up, when quoting Kathleen Rockhill “the boundaries of the speakable” and the concept of…
English 5870
Commentary – Pryer
by Amble • • 4 Comments
“The writing of memoir may be understood as a hermeneutical process that serves as entry point into a community of discursive relationships. It is a living practice, at once hopeful and uncertain, which necessarily involves the creation of fictions –…
English 5870
Pryer commentary
by nweidner • • 2 Comments
I too am sometimes disenchanted with academia because the required writing style and research methods can be so rigid and don’t often allow much for voice, regardless of what some research and scholars want us to believe. Pryer attempts to…
English 5870
On Pryer, Ethnology, and Memoir—Huginn and Muninn
by James • • 1 Comment
James D. Dyer Dr. Kim DeVries ENG 5870 Spring 2009 Working “at the edge of incompetence” is what Elliot Eisner (in Saks (Ed.), 1996,p. 412) calls the risky practice of courting the unknown in one’s research practice. If we can…
English 5870
English 5870 Pryer: Ultimately Unclear
by fsnowden • • 1 Comment
At first glance, Pryer’s article seems to cover the same issues as Brueggemann, Sunstein and in some ways Purcell-Gates. Like Brueggemann, she describes issues of personal struggle when dealing with academic research and similar to Sunstein, she suggests the use…