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I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading