Archive for 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 of History, in which, “in this new genre, a moving personal narrative about her Grandmother’s [...]
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 this blog, even if it is for such a short time. In Current Composition Theory [...]
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 the “pleasure principle“) to construct what ze believes should be happening in a first-year writing [...]
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, and understands reality metaphorically. Students can also learn that local hip-hop has what popular hip-hop [...]
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 the spectator so that, as McLuhan & Fiore put it, “the audience becomes a participant [...]
suggestions from chris_v
A few months ago I emailed chris_v asking what he knew or what he could suggest I read regarding Situationist philosophy. He wrote me back (and I’m posting it here for my easy access): The most essential Situationist text would have to be Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle (which is online in various places), [...]
some things to think about on punk pedagogies
I just had a conference with Lisa and I wanted to transfer my notes to something that would be legible to me later and allow for some written reflection. Lisa notes that one of Sirc’s phrases has always bothered her—something along the lines of we can either train students to make bombs or we can [...]
more from Sirc – “traumatic writing that explores the wound”
Kahn-Egan, Seth. “Pedagogy of the Pissed: Punk Pedagogy in the First-Year Writing Classroom.“ CCC 49.1 (February 1998): 99-104. Sirc, Geoffrey. “Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Where’s 2Pac?“ CCC 49 (February 1998): 104-108. I just finished reading these two essays. As I read Kahn-Egan’s, I liked some of what he was saying, but some things he [...]
sources to check out from The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
Lisa asked us to find possible sources in The Bedford Bibliography that we might be able to use for our seminar projects. Here are some: Under Rhetoric and Composition Theory: 144. Bartholomae, David. “Inventing the University.” 163. Brodkey, Linda. Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996. 167. Burke, Kenneth. A [...]
On having a first-year composition program
In Situating Composition, Lisa refers to a few sources I might want to check out sometime regarding first-year composition programs, and whether we should have them or not: Sharon Crowley, Composition in the University: “The traditional function of the required first-year course is increasingly hard to reconcile with professionalization and specialization that now characterize the [...]
