This paper was pretty daunting. So I started with exigence. I wanted to know who has said what and where I fit in. So I jotted down a few names I came across, whether they had written multiple essays on the topic or if they had been mentioned in other sources I have read. These… Continue reading Voices in Student Editing/ Revising

So it’s that time of year again… the final papers start popping up. So for this final paper I am very interested in the writing process, specifically the editing stage or perhaps the post-process. I have to discover the scholarly sources about it as I am not sure they relate. I was very excited to… Continue reading Final Paper

When reading Bitzer I thought, “okay I’ll bite.” The idea that Rhetoric alters reality was pretty weird at first, then I thought about it and it made sense. So I was all #TeamBitzer and then I read Vatz….. I am officially #TeamVatz. I know, I know, so easily swayed, but it makes sense! The thing… Continue reading #TeamVatz

You know that question you were asked in grade school about what super power you would choose if you could? Maybe you choose flying, or invisibility, or the oh-so-desired mind reading power, but in all of these cases what you are really getting at is altering reality. Bitzer claims that Rhetoric’s power can do just… Continue reading The Situation of Rhetoric

This second essay begins with a what Lamott calls a “down draft” and despite the freedom a down draft is supposed to allow, it is a challenge!! Being a student I do a lot of writing, and being an English major I basically write all the time. So then, I am accustomed to shortening my… Continue reading Writing Process Is Actually a Process!

It should be no surprise that being an English Major I do a lot of writing. But, it surprises people that I don’t just sit down and type a beautiful, well thought out paper in a matter of minutes, heck sometimes it even surprises me. This is not unique to me, although some of the… Continue reading The Way to Write (well at least the way I write)

Yes, I placed a question mark at the end of that. Race in the classroom was not something I grew up with. I went to a private high school on which I could count the kids of color on one hand, on two fingers to be exact. Of those two kids, neither were my year… Continue reading Race in the Classroom?

Deborah Brandt introduces the idea of sponsors in her essay. These sponsors may take the form of people, institutions, and circumstances that all make it possible for a person to become literate and shape the way the person actually acquires literacy. While sponsors normally take the form of a positive influence, Brandt makes a point… Continue reading Sponsors of Literacy

Hey, welcome to my corner of the web. My name is Jocie Scherkenbach, I am from the cold land of Minnesota, and I am an English Major. Yep, an English Major- probably like many of you reading this blog. My relationship with literacy has always been strong, I was read to and then I was… Continue reading Yep, an English Major