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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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a genealogy of american anti-intellectualism
I’m enjoying sitting in on Sara’s Writing 323 class this summer, and I’m looking forward to covering it next week. The students today had an interesting discussion about anti-intellectualism. Sara asked why US Americans have such a distaste for public … Continue reading
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ways of reading
I’m sitting in on Sara‘s Writing 323: Writing With Style course this summer because she’s heading to the WPA conference in a few weeks, and I’ll be covering the course for her for that week. Sara’s using Bartholomae and Petrosky’s … Continue reading
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