Blog Post 29

I. Summary

In this article, "Composing as a Women," Elizabeth Flynn writes about the importance of a women's role in composition through feminist inquiry and composition studies and books. She talks about sponsors and their importance in teaching feminist through schools. She also talks about the different writing styles in men and women and how we develop differently from each gender. She also talks about how men have taken the spotlight in literature and how women have not gotten the credit they deserve. She ends the article by trying to encourage teachers to try and motivate women to write about their experiences like men do.

II. Dialectic Notebook

This quote is important because its shows that men and women are different in the way they develop and the way their bodies change but mentally and physically. This is important when looking at differentiating men and women.	"Feminist research and theory emphasize that males and females differ in their developmental processes and in their interactions with others"
Women, just like men are independent thinkers. They know how to separate themselves from people and places and tend to focus more on themselves and trust themselves more than anyone else. This quote sums up quite well the feminist ideals.	"Women who are connected knowers are able to detach themselves from the relationships and institutions to which they have been subordinated and begin to trust their own intuitions".
This quote is important because it talks about how the classroom and teachers are sponsors in the learning process. The sponsors that we have in school are the ones that are relied on to teach us about females in literature.	“The classroom provides an opportunity for exploring questions about gender difference in language use.”
This is important to realize because it shows strongly that people often view writing as men, and not women’s writing. It shows the lack of credit get for writing, even if it is good writing it is thought that a man has wrote it. It is almost to the fault of women though because they have not changed their style of writing. But should they really have to do that?	"Culler is certainly correct that women often read as men and that they have to be encouraged to defend against this form of alienation."
This quote is important because it is saying that how women do think different but don’t always show it in their writing. If they would show it more it would create distinction between men and woman and would probably help them out. I think this would be good for writing because men and woman do differ so much in thinking and interpreting things.	"And if their writing strategies and patterns of representation do differ, then those differences almost certainly means a suppression of women's separate ways of thinking and writing".