I found this article interesting and valid for several reasons: first, it offers a detailed history of the two fields of ESL and compositional studies that offers much needed insight into the schism and division of these disciplines, and second,…
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Focoult Commentary
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Foucault Commentary “Part Three: Discipline 3. Panopticism” After reading this article I found that I was extremely bothered by this idea of the all seeing eye that can see us at all times even though we can’t…
Teaching for Voice
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The teaching of alternative dialects of English has always been a difficult subject. Many of the teachers I have personally experienced in my early education were clearly the product of a prescriptivist “Deficit Theory” approach. (Fox 65) It wasn’t until…
Composition and Writing in Other Nations – Commentary
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This is an exceptional article for laying adequate groundwork to encompass the very broad very expansive subject that is cross-national compositional perspective. As soon as I was through the introduction, I found myself wanting to read the specifics of their…
Commentary 3 & Commentary 4 5001
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“Language Diversity in Teacher Education” Growing up, I was the victim of an ‘old school’ English teacher mother. To this day, any time I utter something that is less than perfect American English I can see her right eye twitch…
Classical Crashings of Writing and Change- Commentary
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Near the beginning of this essay, Li claims that educators are wary of tampering with China’s “brilliant literary tradition,” choosing instead to honor and preserve the moral and educational trends of the past (51), but as we dive further into…
The Loss of the Creature Commentary
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–The highest role of the educator is in the maieutic role of Socrates: to help the student come to himself not as a consumer of experience but as a sovereign individual (Percy 47).In the selection from The Loss of…
Commentary #2 A Rhetoric of Motives by Kenneth Burke
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In the chapter from A Rhetoric of Motives, author Kenneth Burke establishes that rhetoric serves a “realistic function” (Burke 43). He argues that rhetoric serves a purpose in our language–it has a job. Then, as a recurring theme in our…
Words as distraction
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I found the concept of terministic screens presented by Burke to be a very interesting one. The idea that the way we construct an argument and the word choices we make affect our interpretations. We see examples of this constantly.…
Commentary #5 – Goffman
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Maria Shreve English 5870 Dr. DeVries 24 March 2009 This particular reading, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, didn’t sink in as well as some of the other readings we’re been assigned. However, one aspect I…