When I observed an English 1000 class last semester which required students to write all the standard forms of essays, (argumentative, persuasive, etc), I felt like each topic worked independently of itself and that these students were jumping from place-to-place…
English 5001, Ideas, Tools
5001 Proposal Is California still “the land of fruits and nuts?”
by Keri • • 4 Comments
The Rhetoric of the Gay Debate in a Liberal State California has long been considered a liberal state on most issues. People from other states often refer to California as “the land of fruits and nuts” and they aren’t talking…
English 5870
Ray Response on Teacher Research
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James D. Dyer Dr. Kim DeVries ENG 5870 Spring 2009 The Values of an Ethnographer It is their belief in the social construction of knowledge and their actions based on this belief that set teacher-researchers apart from other teachers and…
English 5001
Japanese Rhetoric
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A survey of rhetoric course begins in ancient Greece, moves to the Romans, heads westward over time through Europe and the New World. Our course attempts to include rhetoric from China, India and Persia, but still overlooks rhetorical contributions from…
English 5001
Commentary Week Four
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Mike Calou Commentary Week Four Rethinking Rhetoric from an Indian Perspective: Implications in the Nyaya Sutra It appears from the readings about Indian rhetoric that there were some misconceptions when western rhetoricians first began analyzing the rhetoric of…
English 5001
5001 Proposal
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Dawn Hamilton English 5001 – Kim DeVries Research Proposal 3/12/09 Rhetoricians and educators have been trying for centuries to develop learning methods that encourage dialogic and participatory classroom settings. The struggle to create active- rather than passive-learners has been…