Welcome! This blog acts as a space for you to critically reflect on the readings and better absorb the material, and it puts you in conversation with your peers about their understanding of the material.
Directions:
1: Create a new post where you will raise two questions about the readings that you would like your peers to engage with.
2: Reply to one peer's post as a comment and attempt to answer one of their posted questions.
Blog posts are due by 8pm the night before class.
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Dami (Michael) Aderibigbe
1. What are your thoughts on WPA's formula for effective teaching?
2. Briefly describe Fulkerson's take on how to discover a teacher's dominant orientation.
Hi Dami! Re: your first question, my feelings on the WPA guidelines are a little torn. I think the outcomes are, more or less, fine, but they do seem to ignore some larger conversations in composition. For example, what is the WPA's belief on the relationship between language, knowledge and power socially rather than in the field of each student? Similarly, the section deemed "Knowledge of Conventions" seems a little prescriptive to me and redundant with the rhetorical knowledge section. Lastly, I think Bartholomae notes a disconnect between composition instructors and the other disciplines on campus. How are composition instructors to focus so astutely to the language, genres, and conventions of each students' individualized field?
Hi Dami! Re: your first question, my feelings on the WPA guidelines are a little torn. I think the outcomes are, more or less, fine, but they do seem to ignore some larger conversations in composition. For example, what is the WPA's belief on the relationship between language, knowledge and power socially rather than in the field of each student? Similarly, the section deemed "Knowledge of Conventions" seems a little prescriptive to me and redundant with the rhetorical knowledge section. Lastly, I think Bartholomae notes a disconnect between composition instructors and the other disciplines on campus. How are composition instructors to focus so astutely to the language, genres, and conventions of each students' individualized field?
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