An audience can be swayed by factors outside the rhetoric realm. This was briefly mentioned in class on Thursday when the Kennedy/Nixon debate was discussed. Radio listeners thought Nixon won the debate, but television viewers considered Kennedy the winner. Nixon…
English 5870
Week 3 Ray: There is a hierarchy?
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The deeper I get into the graduate program, the more I understand as I have never understood before the existing hierarchies in educational and literary studies. But never in my wildest dreams did I think that a hierarchy which privileged…
English 5870
Commentary Two
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Mike Calou English 5870 Dr. Devries March 1, 2009 Commentary Number Two Ruth Ray The main idea of this article is that teacher research does not need to exist in a vacuum. Teachers are the “meat” in the…
English 5870
Paired Observation
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Mike Calou English 5870 Dr. Devries February 28, 2009 Paired Observation Partner: Ned Weidner Time: 5:30-5:51pm Place: Mom’s Java House, CSU Stanislaus Question: How do people interact? What ways do people interact when ordering and working at a coffee…
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James’s reply to Carolyn Frank
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Response to Carolyn Frank’s, “An Ethnographic Perspective:” I read this with interest and was impressed by Frank’s ability to identify the cultural bias in her perspective through reading other people’s interpretation of events. Most people do not do…
English 5870
Purcell-Gates reading response
by James • • 0 Comments
While I have long been familiar with ethnographic research due to my background in sociology, this essay struck me as being very useful to both the novice, and to the experienced ethnographer because it covers the field in enough detail…