SWP

 Project 1

-In project 1 I did a good job quoting text from the book and from articles I found online. This is the first time I have ever added a synthesis into a paper.


Project 3 Peer Review

-I think that my peer response is shown here as much better than my first peer review. I made more changes and corrections to my peers paper rather than just grammar mistakes which was completely different than my first peer review


Blog Post 15 Brandt

-This blog post was definitely my best blog. I used quotes, and examples from the book. I could tell by reading this that i started getting the hang of reading scholarly journals.

Blog Post 32

Citation

Alexander, Jonathan.  “Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body.”

I. Summary

In Jonathan Alexander’s article,  “Transgender Rhetorics: (Re) Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body”, he talks all about how gender is a very questionable topic.  He talks about the components of what makes man and women so very different. He then goes on to talk about of a friend of his that had a sex change from woman to man.  She turned into a man and changed her name to Patrick Cailifia-Rice to better fit her new appearance.  How can we know he is a man, is the question Alexander asks.  His students accepted him as a man but how do when really call him a man?  Alexander also talks about how gender is influenced in the classroom and what role it plays in teachings.  When given a place to openly express their feelings, students feel more confidant in the classroom. Having a good understanding of gender identities in the classroom can help everyone be more accepting and functional in the world outside of the classroom environment.          

II. Dialectical Notebook

In this column you RESPOND to the quotes	In this column you TYPE OUT the quote
This quote is trying to show that participation helps those that don’t understand the transgender community to get a better understanding of their behavior. Society is meant to be a certain way, and when someone crosses over or does something different than the societies norm it is frowned upon. But we have to learn about other that are different than us to really have an understanding of todays society.	"I want to argue than trans theorists and pedagogical activities inspired by them can remind us to complement our understanding of gender performance with a sense of gender as a material and embodied reality".
This quote is important because it explains the fact that sexuality clashes or collides with our understanding of gender. Gender is either being a man or a female, and sexuality meaning being attracted to either males or females. This completely collides with our understanding of gender.	"Most recently, composition scholarship in this vein has grappled with issues not only of gender but also of sexuality, recognizing that sexuality intersects with and complicates our understanding of gender".
This article and quote relate to Delpit. This talks a lot about not fitting in because of of sexual orientation because the standards the society has placed upon people who are different. Much like people who are black have a different dialect, it is frowned upon to not speak white English.	“Our students’ identities, informed by prevailing, politicized and personal definitions of gender and sexuality, can have a significant impact on their participation in class, their sense of themselves as learners.”
This quote is about questioning the queer theory.  I can see how people can have different identities and that they are not accepted for these ideas.	“Queer theory can be used to highlight for all students how our identities are shaped and communicated through a variety of intersecting social processes.”
This quote is important because Alexander talks about the importance of teachers opening up their classrooms to not only empower and encourage their students to talk about their own thoughts and experiences, but to open the minds of all the students in the classroom to take a look at the personal and political oppression put on by society. Personal, meaning a sense of sexuality, and political meaning the sociocultural expectations put up by society, intersect and collide. The goal in the classroom is to give a better understanding of all students about this process and what is felt about this process.	"Opening up spaces in our classrooms to allow and encourage students to undertake such explorations not only empowers them and promotes their own agency but also potentially extended critical awareness to all students of how writing can be used to explore the intersection between the seemingly personal and the political".
This quote is talking about how we should see gender as more then a rhetoric.  It is a way of identification.  Gender is used more as a identification then we know.  It is everywhere.  And when we can’t tell if a guy is a guy or if a girl is a girl, things get very awkward.  It must be very hard for people like that.	“And pedagogically, considering with students gender beyond its rhetorical dimensions is not to leave rhetoric behind, but to think about rhetoric in a more materially grounded way.”

Blog Post 31

I. Summary

Lisa Delpit’s article, “The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse”, is all about the different types of discourse, mainly primary and secondary discourse.  This article of is mainly to disprove James Paul Gee’s theory on primary and secondary and his ideas of being involved in a discourse community.  It talks about planning on not getting in a discourse community if you are already in a DC because you will have many problems change discourses in the future.  She gives many examples of black people that did not have a primary DC that were successful in life.  She says that these people would not have had the opportunities they had if the teachers had Gee’s mind set about discourse communities. 

II. Dialectic Notebook

In this column you RESPOND to the quotes	In this column you TYPE OUT the quote
This quote relates to Gee’s article in many ways. The first discourse we learn is the most influential discourse in our lives. It always says that switching communities can be difficult.	"Gee maintains that there are primary discourse, those learned in the home, and secondary discourses, which are attached to institutions or groups one might later encounter".
This quote introduces Delpit’s main argument against Gee. Once you are in a discourse community is very hard to get into another discourse community without complicating terms with the other discourse community. The individual is born into a discourse community, and changing is a difficult thing to do.	"The status of individuals born into a particular discourse tends to be maintained because primary discourses are related to secondary discourses of similar status in our society".
Delpit gives advice to what teachers should do to students who have a different home discourse and literacy.  She says that if they are not well educated about this than they will not be successful in college.	"First, teachers must acknowledge and validate students' home language without using it to limit students' potential"
This quote is important in it demonstrates Delpits claims. She talks about a man named Clarence Cunningham was a very good football player in high school but only had a C average.  The teachers seeing his potential made him work harder on his schoolwork or else he was not allowed to play football anymore.  The teachers were his biggest influence.	“Clarence Cunningham, now a vice chancellor at the largest historically black institution in the United States, grew up in a painfully poor community in rural Illinois”
This quote really shows what teachers should do for students that come from backgrounds that are not as great as other students.  Delpit then says that teachers can discuss openly the injustices of allowing certain people to succeed based not a talent but what your last name is.  This quote was very propionate around the time college applying began.  You already who was getting what before the even applied.	“A final role that teachers can take is to acknowledge the unfair “discourse-stacking” that our society engages in.”
Delpit is wanting to fight the oppressed people and get them the an education that everyone should get.  This quote really shows that people should change so that people of a poor background can have the same opportunities as a person that is rich.	“Individuals can learn the “superficial features” of dominant discourses, as well as their more subtle aspects.”

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Blog Post 30

In Geneva Smithermans’ article, “‘God Don’t Never Change,’” she explains how students are taught to use grammar in the classroom. She provides three different groups of language usage. The first group of language she explains is white English (WE), the second is blacks using both their dialect and WE (which is referred to as bidialectal, or BD), and the third is standard Black English (BE or BI). In reading this article I was asking myself what each language group meant. Then I started thinking that language really has “changed” it has just been formed into the way it is now throughout the course of the years. This thought came to me because she talks about how Americans were colonized by the British and learned language from them, and blacks learned their language from the whites who enslaved them. It was very interesting to see how language and grammar has been shaped by different cultures and different circumstances. Every culture has a different language and grammar history depending on the circumstances their language was started upon.

Peer Response

The peer response I received was very helpful. She pointed out a lot of grammar mistakes I made that I previously would never have noticed. I think that kept both the positives from my paper and the mistakes and pointed out both which is very important. I now see that I need to be more aware of my grammar and the mistakes that I frequently make when writing papers. My peer response partner sent everything to me on time and made things extremely easy for me. She was a big help and I think that my paper will be much better because of they help she provided. Peer review is extremely important when writing a paper because you as the writer cannot always see the mistakes you make when writing a paper. So having a peer help with this process is a not only a large help, but its also very important part of the writing process.