Hopefully some of you are still tuning into the blog post, or some have already turned in their final projects and left this course behind. Either way, I wanted to bid this class a fair adieu. As we head off into our summer vacations, I am astonished at the people I have come in contact with over the semester. This class helped me to see where I could define myself in the terms of academic discourse. To sum it all up I am an expressivists, new rhetorician, contact zone, voice searching, and mechanics unraveling fool. I side with the expressivists who believe in voice as a writer’s primary concern. I see Bizzell’s connection to the contact zone as a place for self discovery, and acceptance in the classroom. I follow Lindemann’s model of grading papers, and judging on merit and not just mechanics. I hear Royster when she speaks to voice being present, and not a singular process. And I side with Reechico when he speaks to taking a Bahktian approach to reading and grading students papers. With all of the information that was presented to us during this class, I can see how rhetoric and discourse is coming to a point where, the more explore, the better chances are students will have. To have all of these essays at our disposal, I am confident that I can approach teaching in new ways, that dispel and accept some of theorist that we have read.
Being removed from education for some time, and I am glad we had an opportunity to have this opportunity to have an open dialoguge towads ours philoshpy of teaching. The blog was resourceful and often time encouraging way for me to read and understand the texts we were assigned. Thank you to all who contributed, and all who even stepped out and posted their own individual work. Good luck in all of your future endeavors.
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