COMMUNITY RHETORICS: Writing from the Inside
Examples of Students' Past Work
COMMUNITY RHETORICS: Writing from the Inside
"Contact Zone" Essays
In personal narratives relating their experiences in various social, cultural, educational, or other kinds of "contact zones," students not only told their stories but they also considered the crucial question "so what?". How did their experiences as travelers in the "contact zone" relate to broader political trends, social issues, or personal values? How did all of this connect and relate to our course readings?
¿Entiendes? The Necessity of Accepting Inversions of Authority in Contact Zones by Vanessa Baker
Community Writing Projects
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Research Papers
Students' multiple-source research essays addressed many aspects of the broadest questions of the PWR class "Writing Nature": what is human identity, and what role do human beings serve in nature? Try following the links from bibliographies to students' online research.
Olympic Wolves? by Maggie Smith
Multimedia Oral Presentations
Students' Powerpoint presentations at quarter's end addressed a specific aspect of their research papers.
Conservation VS Restoration by Andrew Buck
Jaws by Dave Borrelli
Navajo Creation Mythology by Tiffany Early
In-Class Electronic Discussions
These are transcripts of various in-class electronic discussions of reading-related questions and ideas in the course "Writing Nature: Discourses of Ecology."
About Henry David Thoreau and Gustav Eckstein: "...you must tell what it is to man"?
Conversation #1 ~ Conversation #2 ~ Conversation #3 ~ Conversation #4
About Lewis Thomas' "Making Science Work": what's the difference between science and technology?
Conversation #1 ~ Conversation #2 ~ Conversation #3 ~ Conversation #4
About Peter Singer and David Quammen: the question of speciesism