About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
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Category Archives: Voice
“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
resignation…
The first draft of the final paper is due tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. I have to pretty much have it done by 8:00 a.m. because I’m busy in the morning (office hours, teaching, other class), so here it is: 13 … Continue reading
more from turnbull’s dissertation
Page 37: The use of first-person rather than the more formal third-person, of course, is not an absolute negative indicator of academic voice. As James C. Raymond pointed in “I-Dropping and Androgyny: The Authorial I in Scholarly Writing,” use of … Continue reading