Self, Hawisher, & Berry – Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: The Challenge of New Media
Selfe, Cynthia, Gail Hawisher, and Patrick Berry. “Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: The Challenge of New Media.” Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Eds. Selfe, Dickie, Danielle DeVoss and Heide McKee. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. The authors begin by acknowledging the collaborative, social nature of knowledge production in the contemporary, networked era (350); however, they also note that the English department is... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Salazar
Salazar, C. A Third World Women’s Text: Between the Politics of Criticism and Cultural Politics. In S.B. Gluck and D. Patai, editors, Women’s Word: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. Routledge, NY and London, 1991 The author contends that women’s autobiography has become a central part of the “intellectual, political, and even armed resistance” waged by oppressed people against dominant or hegemonic groups (93). The author... Read More
CCR691 – VTB’s Spiritual Literacy – Ch. 1 for Comment
Tolar-Burton, Vicki. Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe. Waco: Baylor UP, 2008. Print. Chapter One: John Wesley and the Rhetorical and Literacy Practices of Early Methodism Summary: There’s a lot going on in this section as it introduces the reader to Wesley’s program and also serves as the blueprint for the remainder of the book. Early in the introduction, VTB lays out a couple... Read More
CCR691 – Ethnography Readings
From Methods and Methodology in Composition Research Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan Chapter 7 : Ethnography and Composition: Studying Language at Home This chapter provides a great how-to for ethnography. Highlights: Ethnography works in situations where the researcher has epistemic privilege Ethnographers tend to focus on the daily routines in the everyday lives of the communities being studied. 3 modes of ethnography: Comprehensive-oriented: ... Read More
CCR691
Composition Research Agendas in the 1960s and 1970s Richard Lloyd-Jones History, Reflection, and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition, 1963-1983 This relatively short piece discusses one veteran rhet/comp professor’s experience with administering writing research for national organizations like NCTE, NAEP, and other groups during the 1960s. In his introduction, Lloyd-Jones notes a key theme that is spun throughout his essay: namely,... Read More
