The works we have been reading have been surrounded with words that understanding only helps to make the readings better. Without knowledge of these words, we will be at a disadvantage when looking at the work. Leah was kind enough to set up the keywords list on google docs and Dr. Rice has connected it to the blog. Some of my choices have a definition that I think needs to be expanded on but the others are lacking definition. Here are some words I would like some help with:
Freshman Textbooks-
There is a definition but it could use some serious work.
Marginalization
Paradigm Shift
Self/ Subject
Writing Center-
Are we saying Purdue has the best writing center? Or are we saying that Purdue has a good example of one? I think we can figure out a good example of what a writing center should be.
Concerning the scholars associated with Marginalization, Gerald Graff 's book concerning the history of composition and rhetoric and its place in academia and then later, Christy Friend (1992)" The Excluded Conflict: The Marginalization of Composition and Rhetoric Studies in Graff's Professing Literature."
ReplyDeletePARADIGM SHIFT
ReplyDeleteThomas Kuhn coined the term, “paradigm shift,” using it exclusively within the context of science. However, the term provoked a lot of interest in higher education. It has been adopted and used by many to apply to any change in the way a group thinks about issues and problems related to their field OR to individuals who radically reorganize the way in which they think about something or their entire belief system. Paradigm shifts occur in academic fields when problems are not answerable or cannot be answered with old ways/theories of thinking. Hairston, M.’s (1984) “Winds of Change” applies Kuhn’s term to the field of composition. She presents an argument for a paradigm shift in composition and writing studies. Hairston declared the “writing-process movement” composition’s founding “paradigm,” thus articulating the transition form more structuralist forms of thinking that were held onto up until 1966’s Dartmouth Conference (and after by many). According to Hairston, M. (1984), the shift is happening mainly because of beliefs held by practitioners in the field surrounding composition and writing studies pedagogies, a huge push to investing in writing centers, and the move to separate Composition and Rhetoric Departments from the English departments across the nation. While Hairston, M. (1984) argues composition as process, new ways of thinking about composition suggest we are in a post-process (Rice, R.) or post-post process (Wilson, G.) or that hyperconnectivity (Friedman) is pushing us into a paradigm shift in composition (Rice, R.).