This community weblog supports English 755, Composition Theory, at North Dakota State University.
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Posted
12:43 PM
by Kevin
The comp theory class is done for the semester (Spring 2003), but team, feel free to contribute, and visitors, feel free to leave us a message. Some completely different students, and a different instructor, will likely inhabit this space (or one like it) again in two years (Spring 2005). Comment
Posted
9:03 AM
by Kim
Kevin, that article and letters to the ed that you sent us were really interesting! I especially liked the professor that compared teaching composition to teaching sciences. And I really like the argument in which the idea of freshman level art classes not producing great artists was compared to composition. That's a terrific argument and one that I think should be circulated a lot more...
Posted
4:01 PM
by Sybil
P.S. I will read (and not complain about it anymore) Sherri Gradin's book about Social Expressivism. {Laura- I just put in an interlibrary loan request today.}
Any class that can digress to breast feeding, lesbian drunk strippers, and Dr. S (S for all the "S"s in Assessment) has got my vote for the best class about nothing. Oh wait, it was about theory! I knew I was learning something.
Posted
9:09 PM
by Kevin
Josh, and anyone else who might be interested in genre--I have blogged the McLuhan connection over on one of my other writing spaces. I like the way McLuhan thinks about literature (this might be for Marcia) -- he always talks about how literature can help us probe the environment out of which the writing emerged, or probe our own environment. In other words, literature is a way of looking at the world, rather than an object to be looked at. Or as Burke would say, "equipment for living."
Posted
9:44 AM
by Kim
Sybil, your blog was like reading a great novel--I laughed, I cried, I pondered, I blogged--Plus I agree with you about all those things.
Posted
9:08 AM
by Sybil
Disappointment: A Call To Write doesn't have WEBLOGS listed. Ugh. Sounds like a tweaking I'll do on my own.
Surprise: Codi is not only person concerned with a beer final.... or volleyball final. Hmph. !Muy interesante!
Excitement: This final might be something I can pass. :-) (with flying colors even?)
Confusion: We are HAVING a final? *scratches head*
Clarification: Any bar that only serves beer is suspicious to me.
Impressed: According to feedback, looks like we did well in our workshop. Wish we could have had more people attend, however.
Posted
9:30 AM
by Kendra
There's an alternate format for the final inside L2, no sporting experience necessary. It does not involve a pit of any sort, though perhaps a pitcher....