On the whole, I didn’t find this week’s batch of readings quite as useful as last weeks. Many of the examples in Strategies and In Our Own Voice seemed very university-specific and too grounded in the author’s own particular pedagogy. I found going over the syllabi of the current third-year cohort last spring much more …
I found a number of strategies from this weeks reading useful, especially those in Chapter 7, “Teaching Invention.” I am most interested in applying the assignement in Susan Allspaw’s piece, “Writing Excercise– Connections.” Allspaw introduces photography into the composition classroom to foster a dialogue about perspective and subject position. She has her students to chose a …
Teaching Philosophy
1) It seems like the primary take-away with a lot of these multimodal projects (like the interactive photo montage described on page 420) is that meaning is constructed. Do you see any other possible learning outcomes that can be achieved by assigning students to interact with/create multimodal projects? 2) Miles suggests (p. 418) that it’s …
Quick Summary: In Chapter 8, Gauntlett expresses some concerns about how the Web 2.0 functions in our world. A central concern is preserving content producer agency and individuality in a system which relies on advertising to generate revenue. Gauntlett acknowledges the validity of Marxist critiques of the Web 2.0 on a “macro level,” which view …
1). Jenkins discusses the transparency problem of participatory culture: the difficulty students face comprehending the ways media can shape their worldview. What causes the transparency problem, and why does Jenkins think the stakes are higher for digital media than for traditional media? Jenkins argues students need the skills to read games as texts, but how …
Spitzer and the DSM
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 …
