About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator the politics of ridiculing names
A few days ago, someone directed me to the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. I entered my name, giggled a bit, and moved on. Didn’t think much of it. Then, a listserv I’m on shared the link, and my inbox … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Gender, Internet culture, Race
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narrative, “Fast Car,” clichés, and the purpose(s) of first year composition
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a week now. My students are working on personal narratives, ones in which they need to analyze the events and support a thesis. Additionally, they need to think about it rhetorically: who … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Composition
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584: Weekly Position Paper #4: Problematizing Empathy
In Where We Stand: Class Matters, bell hooks describes various times in her life when she does not want to be understood, or moments when empathy does not do enough. While not a central focus of her book, these are … Continue reading
Greenbaum: Emancipatory Movements in Composition (2002)
Emancipatory Movements in Composition: The Rhetoric of Possibility by Andrea Greenbaum My review rating: 2 of 5 starsAs I read Greenbaum’s Emancipatory Movements in Composition, I was struck with a problem of genre and purpose. I picked up the book … Continue reading
research, credibility, and fact-checking
Julie links to Factcheck.org’s debunking of Jerome Corsi’s The Obama Nation, which they find to be full of citations to unsourced blog posts, citations to his own work, and blatant lack of information that would disagree with his thesis. The … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Composition
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