Archive for November, 2005
some quick notes of what lisa ede mentioned in Engl 595 today
Anne Gere wrote a book on collaborative writing that follows it throughout history Adrienne Riche wrote about politics of location Ede’s new book got was reviewed in College English, and the reviewer didn’t like parts because it used personal and autobiogrpahy. I think this is fascinating because it relates to some of the research I’m [...]
Sommers: “I Stand Here Writing”
Sommers, Nancy. “I Stand Here Writing.” College English 55.4 (1993): 420-428. “I want them [students] to learn how sources thicken, complicate, enlarge writing, but I want them to know too how it is always the writer’s voice, vision, and argument that create the new source. I want my students to see that nothing reveals itself [...]
a polyphony of voices
Emily and I were talking, and I asked her, “why can’t the ideas in my head do the work for me?” and she replied that that would be an awesome comic, where ideas were like dogs or slaves that did the work for you. And then, I said, maybe it’s a good paper idea, where [...]
Gearhart rocks! – radical ecofeminism
Gearhart, Sally Miller. “The Womanization of Rhetoric.” Eds. Kirsch et al. 53-60. Okay, so right now, this essay has very little to offer my 511 paper right now, but oh my god, this rocked. I was a little surprised by her strong stance “that any intent to persuade is an act of violence” (53). However, [...]
Hiatt: “The Feminine Style”
Hiatt, Mary P. “The Feminine Styel: Theory and Fact.” Eds. Kirsh et al. 43-48. “This group-style theory is reflected in the descriptors ‘masculine’ style and ‘feminine’ style. Men and women, it is commonly believed, write differently. The conviction has run strong. Notably absent are any data to support the conviction.” (44). Touché! “Whether or not [...]
Ritchie & Boardman: “Feminism in Composition”
Ritchie, Joy S., and Kathleen Boardman. “Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption.” Eds. Kirsch, Maor, Massey, Nickoson-Massey, and Sheridan-Rabideau. 7-26. p. 14 – mentions Teachign Writing: Pedagogy, Gender, and Equity by Cynthia Caywood and Gillian Overing: “one of the first books to connect writing and feminism in composition” (PE 1404 T4 1987) p. 15: [...]
Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations
Shaughnessy, Mina P. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. New York: Oxford UP, 1977. “For the BW student, academic writing is a trap, not a way of saying something to someone. The spoken language, looping back and forth between speakers, offering chances for groping and backing up and even hiding, [...]
resignation…
The first draft of the final paper is due tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. I have to pretty much have it done by 8:00 a.m. because I’m busy in the morning (office hours, teaching, other class), so here it is: 13 hours of researching and paper writing. I’m sure the rough draft will be craptastic!
more from turnbull’s dissertation
Page 37: The use of first-person rather than the more formal third-person, of course, is not an absolute negative indicator of academic voice. As James C. Raymond pointed in “I-Dropping and Androgyny: The Authorial I in Scholarly Writing,” use of the first person pronoun is often appropriate. For basic writers, however, the problem is in [...]
note to self – find this lunsford article
I was reading Lunsford’s essay in Feminism and Composition and she refers to an essay that I can no longer find on the web: Lunsford, Andrea, with Rebecca Rickley, Michael J. Salvo, and Susan West. “What Matters Who Writes? What Matters Who Responds? Issues of Ownership in the Writing Classroom.” Kairos: A Journal for Teachers [...]
