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Category Archives: Writing 511 Teaching Writing (Fall 2005)
ok – this is where I am going
Here it goes. To be completely honest, I keep changing ideas on a central focus every freakin’ five minutes, hours, whatever. It keeps changing on me. Now, at 2:48 in the morning, approximately 11 hours before I have to present, … Continue reading
“What Matters Who Writes?”
Andrea Lunsford, Rebecca Rickly, Michael Salvo, and Susan West “What Matters Who Writes? What Matters Who Responds?” http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/features/lunsford/title.html Block2: At the conclusion of his essay, “What is an Author?” Foucault pauses, in fact, to ponder some questions very much like … Continue reading
Sommers: “I Stand Here Writing”
Sommers, Nancy. “I Stand Here Writing.” College English 55.4 (1993): 420-428. “I want them [students] to learn how sources thicken, complicate, enlarge writing, but I want them to know too how it is always the writer’s voice, vision, and argument … Continue reading
a polyphony of voices
Emily and I were talking, and I asked her, “why can’t the ideas in my head do the work for me?” and she replied that that would be an awesome comic, where ideas were like dogs or slaves that did … Continue reading
Gearhart rocks! – radical ecofeminism
Gearhart, Sally Miller. “The Womanization of Rhetoric.” Eds. Kirsch et al. 53-60. Okay, so right now, this essay has very little to offer my 511 paper right now, but oh my god, this rocked. I was a little surprised by … Continue reading
