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Instructor: Anne Fitzsimmons
Title: Professional Writing Instructor; Program Coordinator
Student: Tom Breihan
Course: WRT 422
Piece: Bluuurgh!
Best Bit: "I was a punk rocker in high school. I can vividly
remember climbing onstage at shows to sing into the mic, spending 20 minutes
every morning getting my hair to spike right, drinking malt liquor late
at night on the train tracks with a bunch of other punks in a weirdly self-conscious
imitation of 'The Lost Boys.'"
Tones: self-depreciating, warm-hearted, deadpan, alternatively playful
and analytical, dry-humored
Recommended if You Like: David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun
Thing I'll Never Do Again. www.victoryrecords.com/thursday.html,
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Instructor: Marjorie Ledden
Title: Professional Writing Instructor; Writing Consultant
Student: Casey Lynn
Course: Writing Studio 105
Piece: A British Socialist and Me
Best Bit: "Luckily for me, my mom allowed me to listen to
other music besides that of a British Socialist.
Tones: musical, reflective, political, identity, conformity,
liberation, self-acceptance, individualism, convictions
RIYL: http://www.billybragg.co.uk/
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Instructor: Scott Love
Title: Professional Writing Instructor
Link: www.redinkmagazine.org,
www.rsbd.net
Student: Sima Patel
Course: WRT 105
Piece: Om Shanti
Best Bit: "The swastika is the primary symbol of our prophet,
Lord Genesha. It thus is regarded as the interconnecting point between
two realms of being: the mundane outer world of daily reality and the
timeless inner realm of soul, myth, and magic."
Tones: contemplative, open, exploratory, warm, optimistic, sincere
RIYL: www.gandhiinstitute.org,
www.cix.co.uk/~ganesh/ganesha.htm
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Instructor: Joddy Murray
Title: Teaching Assistant, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric PhD
Student
Link: morrismurray.net/syllabus_fall_2001.htm,
wrt.syr.edu/pub/reflections/22/articles/joddy.html
Student: Rachel Neuman
Course: WRT 105
Piece: Uses of Text in a Visual World
Best Bit: The way Neuman dissects the meaning behind the words
of your favorite posters and advertisements. The visual images conjured
up from text allow a vast variety of interpertation.
Tones: modern, analytical, issue-driven, insightful
RIYL: graffitiint.com/pages/doorone_jpg.htm. |
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Instructor: Michael O'Connor
Title: Teaching Assistant, English Department Graduate Student
Student: Leyla Reeder El Bouhali,
Course: WRT 105
Piece: Mint Tea
Best Bit: "I am who I am, and will not be defined by my heritageand
faith alone. My choice defines me…"
Tones: reflective, cultural, clash of ideologies, elitist, identity
RIYL: http://iclubs.iagora.com/recipes/lb_text.html?library_id=2134,
http://members.tripod.com/~theone01/
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Instructor: Bruce Pegg
Title: Writing Center Director
Student: Kristen Smith
Course: Peer Writing Practicum
Piece: God in the Essay
Best Bit: Even the most open-minded person has some subconscious
preconceived notions about the various religions.
Tones: Religion, in-depth thought, teaching, learning.
RIYL: http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/cultural/religion/index.shtml
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Instructor: Louise Phelps
Title: Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Link: writing.syr.edu/~lwphelps
Student: Michael Gallagher
Course: WRT 307
Piece: The Biosphere 2 Center: Loss of Biodiversity Within the
Marsh Biome
Best Bit: Hitting the reader over the head with the obvious - and
hilarious: "This white paper explores the loss of biodiversity…"
Tones: critical, tongue-in-cheek, constructive, well-researched
RIYL: www.bio2.edu, fictions by
Michael Crichton, the movie Biodome |
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Instructor:Vivian Rice
Title: Professional Writing Instructor: Program Coordinator
Link: http://writing.syr.edu/~vdrice
Student: Joshua Lax
Course: WRT 105
Piece: The Rhetoric of Terror
Best Bit: "A propagandist manipulates a situation in the
mind of the subject instead of manipulating the situation itself."
Tones: brutal, honest
RIYL: www.oureffort2001.com,
www.cromwell-intl.com/security/netusers.html,
www.finalcall.com |
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Instructor: Catherine Smith
Title: Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Students:Victoria Perez, and Jennie Salomon
Course: WRT 407
Piece: Legislative Histories
Best Bit: Watching how policies develop over time.
Tones: unbiased, historical, socially relevant
RIYL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/legishis.html |
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Instructor: Molly Voorheis
Title: Professional Writing Instructor, Writing Consultant
Student: Christy Ogonis
Course: WRT 105
Piece: A Hymn Song on Music Education
Best Bit: The way the italicized flashbacks conjure up in your
head images of your own dorky high school.
Tones: nostalgic, personal, aggravated, questioning, inspiring
RIYL: www.doe.mass.edu, www.menc.org,
playing in the high school band
Student: Jocelyn Smith
Course: Writing Studio 105
Piece: Bleeding Through the Band-Aid of Zero Tolerance
Best Bit: While zero tolerance are falsely putting minds at ease,
children are dealing with the detrimental effects of the policy.
Tones: argumentative, analytical, well-researched, critical look at
society
RIYL: http://crime.about.com/library/blfiles/blzero.htm,
http://www.law.harvard.edu/groups/civilrights/conferences/zero/zt_report2.html
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