When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own (Dani):
● It’s like the author doesn’t want anyone to understand what she’s writing
● “When the subject matter is me and the voice is not mine, my sense of order and rightness is disrupted.”
● The Bell Curve(?)
● “...when we are away from home, we need to know that what we think we see in places that we do not really know very well may not actually be what is there at all.”
● “...what we need [...] in this country [...] is to articulate codes of behavior that can sustain more concretely notions of honor, respect, and good manners…”
● Don’t be narrow minded, stated in 20 different ways
● “What I suspect is that this type of surprise rather “naturally” emerges in a society that so obviously has the habit of expecting nothing of value, nothing of consequence, nothing of importance, nothing at all positive from its Others, so that anything is a surprise; everything is an exception; and nothing of substance can really be claimed as a result.”
● “How do we listen?” hmmm
● How do we/how should we engage with Others?
Composing as a Woman(Flynn)
>Composition studies could be described as the feminization of our previous conceptions of how writers write and how writing should be taught.
>"In a sense, composition specialists replace the figure of the authoritative father with an image of a nurturing mother."
>The "feminizaiton" of composition studies has been due to the work of many women AND men.
>Feminist inquiry and composition studies often times teach the same courses, but have never had direct relation like other fields.
>Feminist research and theory emphasize that males and females differ in their developmental processes and in their interactions with others.
>Feminist composition study questions: Do males and females compost differently? Do they acquire language in different ways? DO research methods and research samples in composition studies reflect a male bias?
>Different developing identities as children. Most children naturally begin identifying with the mother, but at some point the son breaks away while the daughters continue.
>Writing study on 4 different writers and their foci.
>The narratives of female students are stories of interaction, of connection, or of frustrated connection.
>The narratives of male students are stories of achievement, of separation, or of frustrated achievement.