Possible Conference Topics

Women and the Gendering of Talk, Gossip, and Communication Practices Across Media
Charting Transnational Native American Studies: Aesthetics, Politics, Identity
Nationalism(s) and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood
Recent Jewish American Literature and Trauma
Mortified: Representing Women’s Shame
The poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation
 

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Book Review Bit

I’d like to preface this by saying I’m less than pleased with the result of my book review.  I just couldn’t get into it and thus, I hate it (but I’m pretty sure the assignment hated me, so there you go).  Anyway, here’s a bit of my book review of the Berlin text:
 
Before diving into [...]

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Conference Paper Ideas

Here’s are some of the ideas that I thought were interesting for a conference paper:
Individuals Shaping the Writing Center- MAWCA This is one the Dr. Lynch-Biniek suggested to the UWC staff and I’d really like to write for this.
Rhetorics of New Media-SWTXPCA Conference
Censorship-Transverse-U of Toronto
Sex, Death and Boredom-Fordham

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Class or cooking-it’s a toss up!

I, too, am sorry you are ill, Dr. Mahoney (aka “Cuz”)!  You need to get better fast.  Without class tonight, my daughter is suggesting I should cook dinner.  At this point, I am checking all the pockets of my coats to see if I can come up with enough money for a hot dog or two from Yocco’s [...]

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my paper…yippee for the day off

 
The Rise and Fall of English
 
So, I read the title and thought, “Wow! What a downer. Do I really need to read this text for my English Studies course?!” The answer of course is no. I don’t really need to read the book, but rather should and did. My own question becomes a huge question [...]

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Feel better, Dr. Mahoney!
I am just going to post an excerpt from my paper as well. I found this review a bit difficult to write because I have basically accepted the fact that I’m terrible at summarizing. I tried, but I”m not sure how much that counts for anything.
I will be checking out the conference [...]

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week 11/11

Thanks alot guys… now I cant wish Mahoney to feel better either, cuz you already did it; you stole all my brown-nosing fire!
I found Scholes’s discussion of truth theory to be one of the liveliest sections of the entire book.  Aptly named “No dog would go on living like this,” in this chapter Scholes laments [...]

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Pleasant surprise, considering my day today!

Don’t be fooled, I really hope you get better Dr. Mahoney and I hope everyone else stays well. I was actually looking forward to class tonight! I’m going to include just a section of my book review since it’s about 1600 words and I don’t want to overload everyone. The personal study plan (which I [...]

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Book Review teaser

Dr. Mahoney,
Hard to follow up the two preceding posts but get healthy (and keep your family healthy) so we can continue arguing about what English is in class. Below is an excerpt of my review on Scholes. The entirety of it is coming your way in email. Take care, all.
 
The basis of Scholes’ argument takes [...]

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A whole day off? Think of what I could accomplish (but won’t)

Man, what a suck up Lori is. Well, I won’t try to outdo her (although I hope you feel extra better) but I will add my two cents (which doesn’t really make sense because I’m posting on a separate related topic but I mean, really, where else could that sentence have gone). Anyway, I am [...]

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P.S.

I don’t know why some of my previous post came up missing, however if you just highlight the area that’s missing it then shows up. Weird!

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Class stuff for 11/11

I hope you’re feeling better Dr. Mahoney!
The links below take you to both my book review and my personal study plan.
BOOK REVIEW
PERSONAL STUDY PLAN
I haven’t decided if I really like where my book review is at right now. I’m sitting in the middle between 1,000-2,000 words and I feel like I need to expand, but [...]

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sick, sick, sick

Hello all English Study-ers. I’ve got good or bad news depending on your perspective. I am going to be out sick tomorrow. I was out sick today and because I am paranoid of giving my one-year old son the dreaded piggie flu, I went to the doctor today. No [...]

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