Rhetorically Listening to Hateful Rhetoric

The implications for composition studies is quite simple: listening has almost ceased to be theorized or taught as  rhetorical strategy. …I want to suggest that rhetorical listening may be imagined, generally, as a trope for interpretive intervention, one on equal footing with the tropes of reading and writing and speaking. 

– Krista Ratcliffe, “Rhetorical Listening: A Trope for Interpretive Invention and a “Code of Cross-Cultural Conflict” (p. 196) (emphasis mine)

This blog took too long to write, but practicing patience with myself is necessary.

In an age where we have heightened awareness for intersectionality, there also is a need for us to improve our listening. The very recent and controversial US General Election, for me, is a prime example of what it means for both political representatives and the voting population to rhetorically listen and what interpretive speaking means.

(trans)Praxis

“Because the formation of any story is not fixed within some individual identity or within an established public position – but rather is formed among competing public or private voices – identity, the writer’s story and voice, includes the writer’s shifting relationships with the peculiarities of our culture.” – Michelle Gibson, Martha Mariana, and Deborah Meem in “Bi, Butch, and Bar Dyke: Pedagogical Performances of Class, Gender, and Sexuality” (qtd. in Kirsh 469).

Reflection Week 13: Weaving it All Together

“Detransition” and “Dishonesty”

There is no shame in following your bliss – or so I tell myself. Also, this was a really hard post to write.

Reflective Journal: Week 12

Think of your happy place, little bee. 

Week 10 Reflection: Drafting Syllabi

Week 9? Week 10? It’s all blurring together….

Reflection Week 7: Straddling the Divide

Which is it: composition, or literature?

Reflection – Week 6

For this week’s reflection I am just gonna leave some reflective points and thoughts…

Reflection Week 5

I intended to write this post last night, but after coming home from work and class and finding my apartment’s internet being disagreeable, I had to push it to today.

Reading Response: Drinking the Expressivist Kool-Aid

For this week’s reading response I plan to generally respond to Peter Elbow’s “Some Thoughts on Expressive Discourse: A Review Essay” (1991) as well as the Burnham and Powell chapter on expressivist pedagogy in A Guide to Composition Pedagogies.