English 504: Emancipatory Composition (Fall 2008)
a belated end of term wrap-up
So, after failing to get 15,000 academic words written in November, I created the same goal for December. Beat it early, but never updated my chart:
22,396 / 15,000(149.3%)
I thought I’d share some word clouds from my papers this term as well. If you want, you can click on the tiny image to see a [...]
“always…”
“If we have learned anything in the years of late twentieth-century feminism, it’s that ‘always’ blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true?” (Adrienne Rich, “Notes Toward a Politics of Location,” qtd. in Lisa Ede, Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location [...]
Gallagher (2004): Radical Departures
Gallagher, Chris W. Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive Pedagogy. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2002.
In Radical Departures, Gallagher writes against our commonplace notion of progressive, a term “often used unreflectively as a term of approbation†(xiii). Compositions studies, he notes, views itself as progressive in two ways: 1) as left-leaning; and 2) as progressing from a less [...]
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 expected a new argument that would offer me new insights, but instead [...]
