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Category Archives: Writing 512 Current Composition Theory (Spring 2006)
more from Sirc – “traumatic writing that explores the wound”
Kahn-Egan, Seth. “Pedagogy of the Pissed: Punk Pedagogy in the First-Year Writing Classroom.“ CCC 49.1 (February 1998): 99-104. Sirc, Geoffrey. “Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Where’s 2Pac?“ CCC 49 (February 1998): 104-108. I just finished reading these two essays. As … Continue reading
sources to check out from The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
Lisa asked us to find possible sources in The Bedford Bibliography that we might be able to use for our seminar projects. Here are some: Under Rhetoric and Composition Theory: 144. Bartholomae, David. “Inventing the University.” 163. Brodkey, Linda. Writing … Continue reading
Sirc’s English Composition as a Happening
From the back of Sirc’s book: Almost everyone will be upset by this book. I feel that I’m a part of teh audience Sirc seeks, and I have been deeply disturbed—and prompted to careful thought—by his critique of the cultural … Continue reading
post-process pedagogy
I just read: Breuch, Lee-Ann M. Kastman. “Post-Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philsoophical Exercise.” Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Victor Vellanueva. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2003. 97-125. In this essay, Breuch articulates that the teaching of the writing process … Continue reading
responses to my I-search essay
Today we got our I-search essays back (mine available as a pdf here) along with responses from classmates. It was really cool to get some feedback on an essay that I think was fairly risky. I wanted to write about … Continue reading