Tuesday, February 11, 2014

List of readings

We discussed the reaction assignment (posted to the right) and each of you chose the paper/class where you would facilitate discussion.  Send your essay to the course email on or befor the noon, Saturday before your presentation.  I will then post it to the site so we can all read it.

Although I technically "modelled" the form for the presentation, Berlin (as you pointed out) contained so much new vocabulary that a lot of our discussion was focused on defining and using his terms, connecting to experience and applying his words to the other new words associated with research paradigms.  And Brodkey , because of the snow day, was left with so little time that we did not really get to spend time talking about the questions, or opening up implications of power differentials associated with discourse, subject positioning, and (as raised in the questions that went with the reaction paper) the role of the disempowered (students) in resisting/re-casting power structures.  This would have been a productive conversation to take up - especiallly in light of our discussion of transformative paradigms.

In your presentations, you may:  1) read all or part of your paper - stopping to engage the class in discussion; 2) assume that classmates have read your paper and after a short extemporaneous summary of the article's main point, its paradigmatic assumptions, and its place in- connection to comp-rhet history,  move directly to discussion (be sure to draw our attention to the sections of the essay you choose to discuss - one feature of discussion I did not model especially well was the move for a collaborative, close reading = making specific references to the  article); 3) any other kind of discussion which presents a perspective on the article's content and engages the class in about 30 minutes + of discussion.

The sign-up list is as follows:

2/24       Anderson et al (2006, pdf on Course Blog);  Chandler
                Royster (1996), 555; Larissa
                Elbow (1999), 641  Maryellen
3/3         Perl (1976), 17; Dave
                Castillo & Chandler (2013), pdf  Pete
3/17       Bartholomae (1985),523 ;   Meaghan
                Heath (1983) pdf;  Omar
3/24       Hawisher & Selfe (2004), pdf;  Gina

                Brandt, pdf.  Kristi

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