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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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 … Continue reading
punk resources
Suggestions from Robert Clark here in Eugene. These are on the syllabus for a class taught by Daniel Wojcik: Laing, Dave. 1978. Interpreting Punk Rock. Hebdige, Dick. 1979. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. in The Subcultures Reader 2nd ed. 2005. … Continue reading
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suggestions from gottlieb
“Ideological State Apparatus” by Althusur (sp?) – essay about how institutions control ideology Amanda Anderson’s recent book The Way We Argue Now on ethics and theory regarding argument
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resources I want to read sometime
In the back of Leigh Ryan’s The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors, Leigh has an annotated bibliography of resources to check out. I want to make a note here of some that I’m interested in finding: Harris, Muriel. “Composing Behaviors … Continue reading
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