English 5060

Friday, November 15, 2013

Week 10 (?): Response to Kerry's "The Writer's Toolbox"

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I find myself in agreement with Kerry's observations . The idea of the tool box is something I began to introduce to my students as the ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Week Ten: Exercise in Finding Voice

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  Two weeks ago, I presented on Expressivism, and had the class participate in a "Voice" exercise. Peter Elbow writes, "Stude...

Week Ten: A Case for Millennial Students

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  Frankly, I was stunned. The discussion about today's students went incredibly negative. However, let me back up, and create some conte...

Week Five: Cornell Boxes v. Bearden Collages

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  I am posting this a full seven weeks after Charles' wonderful discussion. That said, I have been mulling a particular discursive threa...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Week 5: Code Switching and the Freshman English Classroom

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  During class, we had a lengthy discussion on grammar errors in the freshman writing course. Specifically, we talked about the degree of pu...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Week 3: The Lore Box

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  In "The Geography of Knowledge," Louise Wetherbee Phelps expands on North's concept of the "lore box." Where North...
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Week 3: What's the purpose of freshman writing?

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  The reading for this week discussed for the most part the theory-practice split in composition studies. Kerry, acting as classroom instruc...
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