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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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On Yancey’s “Made Not Only in Words” (2004)
Lisa suggested I read Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key.” CCC 56.2 (Dec. 2004): 297-328. And I’m most struck by the good qestions Yancey asks: How is it that what we teach and … Continue reading
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who teaches?
When I was student teaching, my cooperating teach gave me a book, The Courage to Teach, by Palker J. Palmer. She inscribed, beautifully: Mike- This is a book that always reminds me of what is important in this job. I … Continue reading
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Vitanza on Reading
I am struggling through Victor Vitanza’s Negation, Subjectivity, and the History of Rhetoric, and while I am very confused and taking it very slowly, I am loving it. Here is what he writes about reading: As readers — for to … Continue reading
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Passages from Althusser
Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation.” Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review P, 1971. 127-186. What do children learn at school? What do children learn at school? They … Continue reading
Must We Have a Cultural Revolution?
Kampf, Louis. “Must We Have a Cultural Revolution?“ CCC 21 (1970): 245-249. This article was cited by Sirc when I read Composition as a Happening, and I only knew that it was from the 1970s and that Kampf called Composition … Continue reading
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