WRITING THEORIES

Theories of Writing and Composition from a graduate student's perspective

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Branching Out

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I have created two new blogs, which I am linking here, because it all began here. The first is The Pueblo 090 Project: I have opened this ...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Fundamentalist Poetics, or "Grandma, Where Did Dead People Go Before Jesus Came?"

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To paraphrase Viktor Frankl quoting Nietzsche in Man's Search for Meaning - we humans can live with any how as long as we have sufficie...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Barry, Super-Readers, and Truth with a Capital "T"

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When I first came back to school - and after a semester or two of taking literature "survey" classes - I became frustrated with th...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

A Talking Book and the Silence of the Dominated

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How does silence make, deconstruct, and appropriate meaning? Language has no inherent meaning - what we state, whether written or oral - is ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Insignificant Linguisic Interaction

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Spring 2009 - my first semester as a "teacher:" I walked into my very first Eng 090 classroom at Pueblo Community College, so nerv...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Very Superstitious

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Neither of my mother's parents were educated beyond the sixth grade, but my grandfather became an ordained Assembly of God minister - a ...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

We Can't Fix What We Won't See

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"And that clarity helps us remember that all of us, female and male, have been socialized from birth on to accept sexist thought and ac...
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