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
perhaps a shift in focus?
There is something white, bourgeois, male, and straight (while in most discourse I prefer heterosexual because straight impliees that queer is a deviation, here I use straight because it implies the conformist tow the line style so indicitive of academic … Continue reading
Martin’s dissertation
Martin, Eric V. “Reconceiving the Voice-to-Style Relationship in Academic Discourse: A Study of Students’ Initial Perceptions and Emerging Writing Practicies.“ Diss. Illinois State U, 1995. Aronowitz and Giroux define voice as “the ways in which students produce meaning through the … Continue reading
this is just inspiring
From Martin, Eric V. “Reconceiving the Voice-to-Style Relationship in Academic Discourse: A Study of Students’ Initial Perceptions and Emerging Writing Practicies.“ Diss. Illinois State U, 1995.: My challenged uncle does not have verbal skills, but yet he has voice and … Continue reading
Elbow, Writing with Power
p. 304: “everyone, however inexperienced or unskilled, has real voice available; everyone can write with power.” “Nothing stops you [from writing]…but your fear or unwillingness or lack of familiarity with what I am calling your real voice.” p. 305: frequent … Continue reading
Bowden’s The Mythology of Voice
Lisa Ede suggested in a prior comment that I read The Mythology of Voice for this paper. I skimmed through it, and while I think that it looks interesting, for the sake of savvy, I’ll read it later if this … Continue reading