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 512 Current Composition Theory (Spring 2006)
after current comp theory thoughts
Today in class we talked about a lot of really cool ideas that I wanted to digest briefly after class and before going to work at the Writing Center. We read Sommers’ “Between the Drafts,” an essay by Perl, and … Continue reading
response to “Between the Drafts”
The prompt for us after reading Nancy Sommer’s “Between the Drafts” reads: In “Between the Drafts,“ Sommers looks back at her earlier research, including the essay we read last week, and finds much that she no longer accepts. I personally … Continue reading
Elbow’s view on criticism, speaking, and writing
Peter Elbow writes: The contrast between the two media [speaking and writing] is reinforced when we turn to the story of how we learn to speak and to write as individuals. We learn speech as infants—from parents who love us … Continue reading
panopticism
I am in the middle of reading “Panopticism” by Foucault, and I’m certain I’ll be using this for my paper on punk pedagogy. Punk is about breaking discipline, about fighting discipline, and this essay is exactly about discipline, and it’s … Continue reading
punk aesthetic
From Geoffrey Sirc’s “Never Mind the Tagmemics: Where’s the Sex Pistols?” in CCC 44.1 (February 1997), pp 9-29: Punk’s was the aesthetic of the cut-up, re-making/re-modeling the materials of the dominant culture, detourning them from their bland, deadening use into … Continue reading