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Alexie, Sherman. Superman and Me. The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on
Sherman Alexie wrote the article Superman and Me, to highlight his love for reading and
to emphasize his potential and difference when compared to a stereotypical Indian child.
Taking place mainly in eastern Washington state, Alexie taught himself to read in
paragraphs from a young age. He took this knowledge and love for reading and later on
became a writer. His goal is to make an impact for other Indian students and individuals
by teaching creative writing classes and sharing his writings with others.
(author) purpose is to find out about the diverse obstacles that individuals face if they
are in anyway part of the minority. He talked about why he was unable to go to College,
but then ended up in a University being Puerto Rican and not having a very decent
GPA. In my opinion, the Intended audience is pretty much anyone but more specifically
English professeurs. His goal was to graduate and shows the readers (audience) the
difficulties that they, similar to him, could experience when they desire something that
much. He does this by using great philosophers and political leaders as his examples.
Villanueva discovers how these people in history used the term rhetoric in different ways
and he proposes that rhetoric is an important aspect in daily life and regular human
language. He assumes that it has different impacts on people for different reasons.
Writers. College Composition and Communication, vol. 31, no. 4, 1980, p. 378.,
Nancy performed research for three years in which she compares student writers and
adult writers. She compares multiple models of revision like the James Brittons model,
the Gordon Rohmans model, and then explains the linear model. She then transitions to
comparing the average students writing with the writing of experienced writers. She
determines that the experienced writers tend to try to maintain form to their writing
however the student writers tend to reword what they are trying to say. The student
writers also seem to struggle with their range of vocabulary, however this is not as much
in the Two-Year College, vol. 38, no. 4, May 2011, pp. 347-362.
Author Teresa Thonney introduces her main argument in her thesis statement that there
are certain features that are found in most all types of writing that should be taught to
specifically first year students to improve upon their writing. She introduces both
counterarguments, one being that there are not any general skills to be taught in writing.
The other argument by Freedman was that writing should not be taught because
teaching something implies that they are specific rules and guidelines to be followed,
which Freedman does not agree with. Thonney shares her advice and guidelines to
writing with us, that involves six steps, or moves as she calls them. This article allows
or should not have guidelines to follow. In her conclusion she notes that academic
writing is constantly varying but she seems to be writing to help professors understand
what she thinks first-year students should be learning about good writing.
Annotated Bibliography of Philosophy Dedisciplined
Frodeman, Robert. Philosophy Dedisciplined. Synthese, vol. 190, no. 11, 2012, pp.
19171936., doi:10.1007/s11229-012-0181-0.
This essay delves into the shortcomings of disciplinary philosophy, the most
prominent form of academic philosophy in the twentieth century across the United
States. This essay in and of itself is an argument against the aberration that
that had been the go-to for two-thousand years. As a dedisciplined philosophy, this type
of education is a possible way to incorporate the more theoretical and institutional parts
of philosophy. This essay is based on the results of a survey sent to ...500 philosophy