Basic Writing and ESL composition have been criticized as pigeon-holing non-elite students, keeping them from advancing as quickly in academics, and making it more difficult for them to compete with the economically and politically more advantaged social classes. Historically, calls for…
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Responses
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Joel Manfredi Responses to Commentary #3 Dr. De Vries I read most of the responses to what we thought of Brueggemann’s article concerning her work at Gallaudet University, and I must say that I agree with what most…
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Commentary #3
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Brenda Jo Brueggeman “Still-Life Representations and Silences in the Participant Observer Role” Brenda Jo elicits some very thought provoking questions. She follows in the footsteps of Foucault questioning “what does it matter who is speaking.” She questions the space…
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Commentary #3, Brueggemann
by mgarcia5 • • 2 Comments
Commentary #3: Brueggemann Maria J. Garcia- 3/10/09 Brenda Jo Brueggemann’s article touched a nerve for me; I really felt a sense of her struggle as she candidly wrote up her experience as a participant-observer of deaf (Deaf) writing students at Gallaudet University…
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Commentary 3
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“What difference, I ask, does it make who researches, who writes about, who represents ‘subjects’ in composition research? And what difference does it make how these subjects are represented?” As Brueggemann began her dissertation research, she believed herself a distant…
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Commentary Three
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Mike Calou Commentary Three Still Life: Representations and Silences in the Participant-Observer Role In this article the author, Brenda Brueggemann, writes a narrative about her experience doing ethnographic research at a deaf college, Gallaudet University. The author discusses…