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Pedagogy and Oppression
The following is a partial response to readings in Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Teaching to Transgress done for a seminar class on pedagogy … Investigating “the people’s ‘thematic universe’—the complex of their ‘generative themes’” through dialogic means seems to me a really smart place to start thinking about teaching…
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Ownership, Bodies, Legality: Culture in Tech Comm
This post is a critical response to readings in English 451: Cultural Studies in Technical Communication It is unsurprising that the part of Williams’ text that interested me most came in “Owning the Self in a Disowned World.” Williams, in her curious style of narrative anecdote and theoretical reflection, discusses…
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A (Draft of a) Bibliography
As I begin thinking about my comprehensive examinations, especially the upcoming specialization portion, I have started to compile a list of sources relevant to my areas of interest: technical communication, rhet/comp, visible rhetoric, women’s and gender studies, feminism, critical theory, medical rhetoric. The following is what I have at this…
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23: Blakeslee/Fleischer Prompts, Ch. 7
Prompt 7 (p. 211): Selecting a Format and Style for Your Write-Up Given the audience, purpose, and goals for my research and the examples of narrative approaches that I’ve looked, I think that narrative could be an option for this work–but only if I find a participant whose experience is…
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22: Blakeslee/Fleischer Prompts, Ch. 7
Prompt 5 (p. 206): Thinking About How Authors Position Themselves Rhetoric Society Quarterly authors seem to position themselves as both rhetoricians and everyday people. By this I mean that they are interested in applying rhetorical theory to issues that involve common interactions. For example, in volume 40 number 1, Stephen…
Erin Anne Clark 