Archive for March, 2006
read this…
Note to self: read this when you’re on a faster computer: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/jon1.htm
On Zarathustra’s Prologue
I just read the following from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra: To allure many from the herd—for that is the purpose I have come. The people and the herd must be angry with me: a robber shall Zarathustra be called by the herdsmen. Herdsmen, I say, but they call themselves the good and just. Herdsemn, I [...]
suggestions from gottlieb
“Ideological State Apparatus” by Althusur (sp?) – essay about how institutions control ideology Amanda Anderson’s recent book The Way We Argue Now on ethics and theory regarding argument
link from my friend seth
Seth suggested I read this: http://thememoryhole.org/edu/school-mission.htm So I will some other time (back to school work!)
language as action
After this quarter and reading some Burke and Foucault, I’m beginning to think quite a bit about how language is action. As a discipline, English, Rhetoric and Composition all too often views “artifacts” as products, not as actions. Thus, Bakhtin notes that we analyze texts as having one voice, because they are products. I think [...]
reminder to read this
Michael, I know you’re busy right now, so I wanted to write this as a reminder. Definitely check out Computers and Composition, Volume 21, Number 3, 2004, for issues on hypertext, queer issues in the classroom and with technology, etc.
paucity of posts
I’ve realized that I haven’t posted as often here as I’d like, especially about the Writing Center, about the history of rhetoric, and about my thesis and brainstorming for it. It’s just that I’ve been so busy this quarter. I don’t even really have time to be writing this right now; I should be reading [...]
Dead on assessments and what is my worth
I’m a little disappointed. Yesterday, I had three great Writing Center appointments. My first one was an OWL (so, I guess not an appointment), which I really enjoyed. My third one was with my thesis student, which went pretty well. But it’s my second one that I want to focus on. A Writing 121 student [...]
Falling for Foucault
Recently, I’ve been reading some Foucault for theory group and for Writing 593. I’ve read sections of The Order of Things, the essays “What is an Author” and “Nietzsche, Geneology, History,” and an excerpt from “The Order of Discourse.” From “The Order of Discourse”: Any system of education is a political way of maintaining or [...]
how to mark student errors
Earlier in the quarter, I had a tough time marking errors. Sometimes I wouldn’t mark any in student work; other times, I would mark a lot. Sometimes I would only mark those that I saw were consistant errors. When I was reviewed, Lisa Ede noticed that I was inconsistant, and she made a powerful insight: [...]
