Anzaldúa

Anzaldúa, "Tlilli, Tlapalli:  The Path of the Red and Black Ink"

Summary

In Gloria Analdua's article, "Tlilli, Tlapalli:  The Path of the Red and Black Ink" she is a feminist writer who talks about personal stories.  She talks about how she loved to read and how she would sit in bed reading at night.  She also talks a lot about culture.  She goes in to detail about how she does things such as drawing  or putting music to a movie.

Sythesis

I would relate Anzaldua's article to many other articles that we have read previously.  I would first relate it to McCloud's because she talks about if she doesn't write down an image she gets sick about it.  This article also relates to any author that is a feminist. Closely related to Flynn.

Thoughts

This article was very interesting to me.  She talks a lot about herself personally and what she does as a person in her writing and images.  It is interesting how she thinks about writing.  I also like that she talks about cultures.

 

Response	Quotation
I like this quote because she is describing her writing and how she sees it as an image.	"I can see the deep structure, the scaffolding." (220)
Interesting what she writes about this culture and their sacrifices.	"Western cultures behave differently towards works of art than do tribal cultures." (221)
She feel ill because she does not want to forget them so she has to write them down right then and there.	"When I don't write the images down for several days or weeks or months. I get physically ill." (222)
Interesting reading this because it explains what she personally has to do.	"To facilitate the "movies" with soundtracks, I need to be alone, or in a sensory deprived state." (222)

Cixous

 Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"

Response	Quote
I liked this quote because she is saying nothing will change if we don't move forward from the past.	“The future must no longer be determined by the past.”
I liked this quote because it shows good meaning.	“Let us not be trapped by an analysis still encumbered with the old automatisms.”
She is saying that women have a standard and men have a standard.	“I write woman: woman must write woman.  And man, man.”
Don't let society get to you and be who you want to be.	“Let nobody threaten you; in satisfying your desire, let not the fear of becoming the accomplice to a socially succeed the old-time fear of being ‘taken."
I like this quote because it kind of gives and inside to the author.	“As a woman, I have been clouded over by the great shadow of the scepter and been told: idolize it, that which you cannot brandish.”

Definitions

Whiteness-the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black).

 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines/201112/the-meaning-whiteness

Marginalized- Treat (a person, group, or concept) as insignificant or peripheral: "they marginalize those who disagree"; "marginalized groups".

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/marginalization.html

Heterotypical- designating or of the first meiotic division of a germ cell.

http://websters.yourdictionary.com/heterotypical

Those words are connect together because in the world people are put in to groups by color.  Not so much anymore,but people used to be categorized by color.  Racism is a big part of society.  White people were treated different than black people were.  


Worked Cited
Lyubansky, Mikhail, Between the Lines, Psychology Today, Website

Business Dictionary, Website, Definition of Marginalization

Websters New World, Website, Definition of Heterotypical 

Alexander

Alexander

Synthesis

For Jonathan Alexander's article, "Transgender Rhetorics:(Re)Composing Narratives of the gendered Body", there were only a few articles that I could really relate him to.  The articles that I can relate him to are the ones that we have been reading recently.  The first article would be Flynn's article.  I would relate them to each other because of the fact that Flynn talks about the feminist inquiry and all about feminism which relates to Alexander because he also talks about feminism.  I would also connect Alexanders article to Malinowitz.  I would connect them because she talks about gay and lesbian discourses and Alexander also does.

I like this quote because it explains what the whole article is going to be about and gives you a little overview.	"This essay attempts to demonstrate how transgender theories can inspire pedagogical methods that complement feminist compositionist pedagogical apporches to understanding the narration of gender as a social construct" (195)
I like this quote because he is talking about a "queer feminist" and that brings Malinowitz and Flynn's articles together.	"As a queer feminist compositionist, I have given a lot of thought to the relationships among narrative, identity, gender, and the teaching of writing." (195)
Turning our attention to multivalent force of gender in subtle and profound ways.	"Sullivan's work thus argued that gender is a multivalent force that has an impact on composing in both subtle and profound ways, and she maintained that we should turn attention to an examination of that impact." (197)
Seeing how different genders write, is a possibility for respecting that specific gender.	"Seeing writing as possibility for respecting gender, as opposed to revealing of a fundamental gender, is a significant shift in thinking about the composition of gender." (197)
I like this quotes because it closely relates with Malinowitz because of the talk of sexuality and how sexuality intersects with gender.	"Most recently, composition scholarship is this vein has grappled with issues not only of gender but also of sexuality, recognizing that sexuality intersects with and complicates our understanding of gender." (198)
Gender swapping has given opportunities to explore useful insights about gender and sexuality.	"I am not sure that our narratives of gender  swapping and transition were necessarily helping liberate participants from gender norms, even though I believe they offered us opportunities to explore useful insights." (212)

Thoughts

Alexander's article is very interesting.  I really liked that it related with several articles that we have recently read about.  He kind of bring sexuality and feminism together in his article. 

Progress Report

Progress Report

For my project 3, I have started to revise some of the things that Allison suggested in peer review.  There are a few things that i have noticed that are simple changes that would make my paper just a little better.  I plan to add a person narrative because I was a cheerleader myself and I feel I should put my personal experience into my paper.  I also plan to go to the writing center to see what they have to say about my paper.

Smitherman

Before you Read

I have definitely prejudged someone by there voice.  For example, when I heard a British man talk on a recording, I thought they would look very proper and put together, but it was a 20 year old British boy that was not put together and looked like a normal teenager.

Summary

In Smitherman's article she talks about black English and how it is taught.  She focuses on dialect and how people are taught in the classroom.  She uses examples from other literature and how it is used in the discourse.

Response	Quotation
What she is saying is, whats right and what wrong? The classroom is worried about what is right and wrong.	“A quick look at the tradition of schoolroom grammars and the undergirding ideology of early English grammarians reveals that the current ‘national mania for correctness’ has been around a long time.”
People that don't know where they are in society, don't really know their personal identity.	“So Americans, lacking a fixed place in society, don’t know where they be in terms of social and personal identity.”
So interesting to see how language works.	"It is interesting to note the way this class consciousness neurosis is reflected in the area of language.”
There is no right and wrong language.	“Because, you see, the plain and simple fact is that language does not exist in a vacuum but in the socio-cultural reality.”

QD 7

7. Mastery of a dominant discourse sometimes is a risk for disenfranchised individuals because they are nervous about not fitting in and being forgotten.

Thoughts

This article was a little confusing.  I did like that she was taking about slang terms and and how black language is taught in schools.

Flynn

Flynn

Before you Read

The feminist inquiry is a book by Mary E. Hawkesworth. From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation.

Summary

Flynn's article is mostly about feminism.  She talks about the differences between men and women and their relationships with others.  She talks about how men and women's compositions are different.

Synthesis

Flynn's article is similar to a few authors.  It is similar to Berger's because he talks about women and advertising. Wysocki also talks about similar things.  This article can also be related to Malowitz because she talks about sexuality.

Response	Quotation
I picked this quote because it is saying that there is a meaning behind things.	“Powerfully present in the work of composition researchers and theorists is the ideal of a committed teacher concerned about the growth and maturity of her students who provides feedback on ungraded drafts, reads journals, and attempts to tease out meaning from the seeming incoherence of student language.” (156)
This quote just shows that womens opinions were not cared about in the past. They were put to the side.	"Women's perspectives have been suppressed, silenced, marginalized, written out of what counts as authoritative knowledge."(157)
Men have more power and women are judged because of them.	“Men become the standard against which woman are judged.” (157)
Women are very different from men in the way that they act and use language.	“We ought not assume the males and females use language in identical ways or represent the world in a similar fashion.” (162)

QD 3

3. Women's opinions and believes were silenced and not listened to for the longest time because they weren't thought of to be as important as men.

Thoughts

I liked this article.  I liked it because they were talking about women and how they are treated.  I liked it because it was close to Bergers article and I found his article to be very interesting.

 

 

Progress on Project #3

 Progress on Project #3

          For project #3, I have gotten a good start.  Once I figured out my interview questions, I made a point to email my high school coach and a coach from another school.  I have not gotten any responses on the questions yet.  I’m assuming they will be emailing me in a few days.  I also texted some of the girls from my high school team to get their input on the discourse community.  I got their emails and I’m still in the process of getting responses from them too.  I have also been looking online for information about the cheerleading discourse.  I am looking to see all of the different language that is used in the community and all of the different teaching methods.  There are many other blogs that talk about the cheerleading discourse, so I have been trying to look at those to gather information.  I think the project is going well so far, I just need to get more information and put it all together.  

Project #3 Interview Questions

Project #3 Interview Questions

In my interview, I plan to explain what a Discourse community is before asking any questions.  I feel I will get more complete answers after explaining what that is.

I will be getting interviews with my high school cheerleading coach, high school cheerleading coach from another school at home, girls from my cheerleading squad and new freshman girls new on the freshman squad.

What does it take it get into the discourse?

What is some specific terminology or language that people use in the cheerleading community?

Is cheerleading vocabulary the same in all squads? All schools?

How are the new cheerleaders taught cheers? Is that the same in all schools?

What did the new freshman cheerleaders have to do to adapt to become a part of the team?  Was learning to cheerleading language hard?

What is the overall goal of being a cheerleader?

Heilker and Yergeau

Heilker and Yergeau

ROW pg. 261

Summary

For this article, "Autism and Rhetoric", by Paul Heilker and Melanie Yergeau, they explain the mind of an autistic person and how they have a language too.  They use personal narratives to help explain more about the topic.  The article wants the reader to focus on rhetorical reading so they people can understand the lives of other people in different discourse communities.

Sythesis

For me, this article connects to only a few other readings.  First I connected it to Devitt because of how both talk about people from discourse communities talk to people outside their discourses.   I also related this article to Malinowitz, because her discussion of Gay and Lesbian discourse is similar to the way the Autistic discourse is.  People need to have more understanding about it and give it more of a chance.  Lastly, I connected this article to Glenn because of the talk about advertisement. 

Thoughts

This article was very interesting.  I am glad that they used personal narratives in this article.  I feel that it makes the article a little easier to read when you are reading something a little more personal to someone.  I would actually love to read more about this discourse communities. 

“We are being swamped by a massive increase in fundamentally uncertain yet persuasive discourse” 261

Autism is a very uncertain disciuse and not many people understand what it is all about.

I like that this starts off the article, it kind of sets up what this article is going to be a bout.	"Public awareness and public discourse about autism are approaching critical mass.'' 261
We should treat autism like any other discourse.	"If autism is a rhetoric, then we are beholden to respond to it with cultural sensitivity, ethical care, and pedagogical complexity."262
We already have the tools to treat this discourse as any other discourse.	"And if autism is a rhetoric and autistics are minority rhetors, English faculty already posses all the tools and experience they will need to do exactly that."262
Rhetoric listening it very important so people can understand people in other discourse communities.	“Similarly, rhetorical listening allows us to generate a more productive discourse about autism and the rhetorical triangle.” Pg 265
We can now make autistic people more a part of society rather than back when we used to exclude people from society because they were autistic.	“Conceiving of autism as rhetoric, as a way of being in the world through language, allows us to reconstruct what we have historically seen as language deficits as, instead, language differences.”269