I can’t seem to get the formatting to cooperate at moment, so here’s a link to Lindsey’s post: http://lindseygrubbs.com/uncategorized/sarah-and-lindseys-movie-stuff/

Our video explores rhetorical contexts to call into question the authority of scientific texts like the DSM. We will use a series of sketches to illustrate how this seemingly authoritative text actually only represents one voice out of a rich debate. We’re drawing on Bradley Lewis’s Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry, which …

Questions for discussion: 1. Do you agree with Shaughnessy’s that among the “varies” of English there is the “academic English” (774), the mastery of which could enhance students’ writing abilities, and therefore should be introduced into composition courses? 2. Do you agree with Lu’s criticism of Shaughnessy’s “essentialist view of language”? Do you find her …

In this piece, Lu sets out to reexamine Mina Shaughnessy’s Error’s and Expectations. Using recent theories which view language as inherently suspect, Lu critiques Shaughnessy’s concept of “linguistic innocence,” or “a policy which preempts teachers attention from the political dimensions of the linguistic choices their students make in their writing” (27). At stake is the …