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: Writing 511 Teaching Writing (Fall 2005)
Turnbull Disseration
Turnbull, Merrielle. “Becoming One with the University: Basic Writers and Academic Voice.” Diss. Ball State U. p. 30: “For basic writers, “academic writing is a trap, not a way of saying something to someone” (quoting Shaughnessy, Errors and Expectations: A … 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
overwhelmed, but moving along
Right now I’m still feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of this topic, as well as the writing done in the field. But I know I’m not alone, because everyone I talk to seems to be struggling, so I’m feeling a … 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
Albertini, Meath-Lang, and Harris, in Yancey
p. 176: When asked deaf students to journal about voice, saw the following themes: muse: the internal voice is a guide message: “voice was either feelings or knowledge which they wanted to communicate to others” medium: “written voices bore the … Continue reading