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Virtues of Philosophers
I think we cannot separate philosophy from style and delivery, unless someone has some philosophy working at the back of his thoughts than it can be shaped into style and rhetoric. As far as the argument of good man is concerned I interpret Quintilian views in the different way not good man in the... »
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Adam Russell Getting Familiar with the Subject When Brueggemann took the assignment at Gallaudet University, she decided to exist between the two roles of participant-observer and occupy what she called the hyphenated world. Through this process, Brueggemann created a third reality that consisted of herself, the subjects, and her formal observations. The natives of Gallaudet looked... »
Commentary #3
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 that the participant-observer occupies. In what realm does it exist? Are we as ethnographic researchers participants or... »
Commentary 3
“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 observer in an elevated position. She quotes David Bleich, who says, “even politically sympathetic ethnographers... »
Commentary 3
Tina Bell 5870 Dr. De Vries 10 March 2009 Commentary 3 Two weeks ago in the 5870 class we were discussing an issue similar to the one presented in Brenda Jo Brueggemann’s article, “Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy.” While engaging in a twenty hour observation of a college classroom, one of our class members, Adam, had... »