Category Archives: Thesis work

Elbow’s “Music of Form”

Posted on July 9, 2006 by Michael

Elbow, Peter. “The Music of Form: Rethinking Organization in Writing.“ CCC 57.4 (June 2006): 620-666. In this essay Elbow proposes that instead of thinking about organization in terms of space, we instead think of it in terms of time. This … Continue reading →

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Our thesis writing group…

Posted on July 2, 2006 by Michael

My fellow MA students Sarah G, Marieke, Michelle, and Sarah B and I are meeting once a week to go over each other’s writing and to motivate each other for our theses (or writing sample, in SG’s case). This is … Continue reading →

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Yagelski review in CE

Posted on June 25, 2006 by Michael

I just read Robert P. Yagelski’s review, “‘Radical to Many in the Educational Establishment’: The Writing Process Movement after the Hurricanes,“ in the May 2006 CE. Yagelski takes the stance that Elbow, Murray, and Freire are of the same vein … Continue reading →

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question generation

Posted on April 12, 2006 by Michael

Today in our MA Writing Group, Vicki Tolar Burton presented on writing our thesis and strategies involved. Two things stick in my head: 1. Write 15 minutes a day, at least. 2. Play to your strengths, according to this online … Continue reading →

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suggestions from gottlieb

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Michael

“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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