Throughout highschool I had a livejournal and for a short period of time a xanga journal online. I loved having the public forum that all my friends (and enemies) could see. I posted random entries on my current life issues, some poetry, and I loved to comment on other peoples posts (I tend to be [...]
In looking through my classmates’ blogs (as well as re-reading my own) I had mixed feelings. I tried to especially pay attention to the papers that we all posted. Some of us came with a lot of writing experience and skill already under our belts. Others started a little more from scratch. But overall, I [...]
The boundaries of “academic discourse” are extremely blurry. Not all “school” work counts. In fact, as a student, I have never really considered my work as a part of the conversations taking place in academia. My term papers were written for grades. Often they simply supported some other argument I found in an article [...]
In Miller’s article, she discusses her “self” in an interesting way. Instead of following Elbow’s argument that one needs to put their “self” into their writing, she believes that the process and product of writing helps to form the “self.” In her writing process, she finds that the role she takes as a writer determines [...]
