Tinney: Mostly Relevant

I definitely had mixed feelings about the Tinney article. I absolutely loved his enthusiasm and his emphasis on the importance of stories. As a teacher who is obviously passionate about his students and desires to help them develop as strong human beings, he highlights the importance of literature and makes it relevant to the student. [...]

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Expressions of my Eternal Pessimism

In an effort to combine the two articles our group read (the first two), I felt the best way to do so was by coming up with some sort of lacking element in the theories or ideas and then discuss that point.  I’m not sure if it is good or bad that I’m stuck on [...]

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I am woman, hear me roar!

Women in Fox’s class find a voice—this is the most significant thing about this whole article.  The fact that these women who never seemed to have one in their pre-academic lives can now write and share and learn and teach is so awesome!  (Sorry, I am excited…)  I think the reason these women have come [...]

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Foxy lady…I don’t know; I’ve got nothing…

Exploring the nontraditional woman student in freshmen comp. class was an interesting idea…I honestly never thought about them the way Fox explains it. I lie, I do (My best friend is 26 and for the first time entering college. She is a divorced, full-time customer service rep. in corporate America and a full-time student. Plus, [...]

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The Irrelevance of English Models

“Faculty readers have the power to shut down the voices of otherness as they see fit”
(242).
In Comfort’s article, I was surprised to read about many of the travails of women of color within the English discipline, as I had come to believe, perhaps naively, that American academia had progressed past the tunnel vision of its [...]

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