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Sound Writing and Literary Affordances
This post was originally published on September 23, 2019 by pedagogyandamericanliterarystudies. Sonic Pasts and Literary Affordances When I teach Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010), I am visited by the resounding goons of our literary past. Aside from being a satire that explores the shift from digital to analog music in the late-twentieth century, Egan’s polyphonic…
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Internationalization of Education: Neoliberal vs Humanistic Affordances
Shyam Sharma, Stony Brook University* Some time ago, while I was teaching a first-year writing course that only had international students, after a good class discussion about the importance of writing courses like that as a place to learn some of the fundamentals of American higher education, one student followed me to my office to…
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Welcome!
SUNY Writes! is a blog-zine for the community of writing educators in the State University of New York system. The blog is part of an initiative to reach out to and engage SUNY Council on Writing community by also using social media platforms, listserv/mailing list, and conference and task-force connections. We would greatly appreciate if…
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MOOCs, the Teaching of Writing, and Academic Labor
Originally published in the newsletter of the Oswego chapter of UUP: Writing program administrators often joke that class sizes in first-year writing courses have more to do with US News and World Report – which defines “small” classes in its college rankings as those enrolling fewer than 20 students – than with all the impassioned…
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Message to UUP on Contract and Contingent Employees
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The Unsustainable Economy of Composition and A Cattle Call to Action: to define some problems with composition in the 21st century
Paper delivered by Arabella Lyon, at SUNY COW 2012 (University at Buffalo) As a political philosophy, neoliberalism construes a rational for a handful of private interests to control as much of social life as possible to maximize their financial investments. Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searle Giroux, Take Back Higher Education In the 1990’s…
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This Course is Your Course, This Field is My Field: On Sustainability, Economic and Intellectual
Paper delivered by Michael Murphy (SUNY Oswego) at SUNY COW 2012 In a reflection last year on the controversial 2007 Report of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on Staffing called “Education in the Balance,” David Bartholomae, the Committee Chair, noted a development which most observers of staffing trends in higher education likely found interesting though…
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