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…
English 5001
How to learn to write?
by uzma • • 0 Comments
This week reading is really interesting and thought provoking and raised one question will we ever have a consensus on anything in this world? No one can deny the reality that English is the Lingua Franca of the world…
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The Right Way to Teach Write
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
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…
English 5001
Writing Culture Shock
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
Cultural variations in writing not only refer to differences across countries but across schooling systems as well. When I began college, I was lost. A first generation college student, I had limited guidance in what I could expect from the…
English 5001
Teaching and Learning Writing: Trouble at Every Level
by Anne Engert • • 1 Comment
This week’s readings illuminate and explore several issues about writing in the classroom and in academia. Many of these have been readily apparent to me as a student in the system. Certainly any person coming to the college classroom without…
English 5001
Midterm– A3 & B2
by Joel •
A3. In writing classes today, how might a perception that studying rhetoric will lead to virtue manifest itself in pedagogy? You may draw on your experience as a teacher and/or student, as well as our class discussion. Teaching rhetoric as…