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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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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Introduction to Anzaldúa’s Borderlands, 2nd ed
[a] pages 1-15, the Introduction by Sonia SaldÃÂvar-Hull [b] SaldÃÂvar-Hull provides an introduction to Anzaldúa’s book that summarizes the book and provides a context for it within Chicano/a and Borderlands writing. According to SaldÃÂvar-Hull, Anzaldúa is writing a new type … Continue reading
what is good writing?
I have been so busy and stressed lately that I am completely behind in everything, and worst of all, have found such little time to write and journal! So, I am demanding of myself some time to write tonight on … Continue reading
Optimism One
Optimism One. “Punk Power in the First-Year Writing Classroom.“ TETYC (May 2005): 358-369. Optimism One builds off of Seth Kahn-Egan’s “principles of ‘punk’“ (DIY, sense of anger and passion, attack on institutions of oppression, willingness to endure pain, and and … Continue reading
Sirc’s essay “Proust, Hip-Hop, and Death in First-Year Composition”
Sirc, Geoffrey. “Prouse, Hip-Hop, and Death in First-Year Composition.” TETYC (May 2006): 392-398. In this essay, Sirc compares local hip-hop to writing, claiming that hip-hop gets at having to say something, explores the desire to understand our pleasures, is real, … Continue reading
metaphors of architecture and art; happenings
I’m still reading Sirc’s book, and he draws a metaphor between writing and architecture (3-5), which leads him to discuss artists who realize they must work outside the architecture given them: They practiced an art which interrupted the passivity of … Continue reading