50 Matching Annotations
  1. Nov 2019
    1. enres develop, then, because they respond appropriately to situations that writers encounter repeatedly

      genres are built on situation

    2. aware of my own struggles

      pathos and logos in one

      pathos - relatable logos - he has struggled as much as we do understanding these concepts

    3. Hence the value of teaching genre awareness rather than acquisition of particular genres

      so being able to recognise different genres is stressed more than the knowledge Of all genres

  2. Oct 2019
    1. The identity of a storyteller gives credibility

      is this why people tend to tell a personal story before giving advice? there have been countless times where i'll be in a weird space, and when i seek advice about X, they'll tell me about Y before laying the actual piece of advice on me.

    2. enhanced by choices they made through which they became “organizers’

      so does this mean that identity is the centre of story telling? i ask, because what i'm interpreting is that identity is shaped by agency and enhanced by motive.

    3. a farm worker who had carried a 2x4 wooden cross draped in black cloth 300 miles from Delano to Sacramento, stayed up most of the night redraping it in white and decorating it with flowers

      hermosa <3

    4. Hurried negotiations produced recognition of the farm workers union, substantial immediate improvements in wages and working conditions

      YER!!!

      EMPLOTTED goal reached (3) : schenley negotiated and listened to workers

    5. insisting on a commitment to nonviolence, a novelty in the farm worker world. He also asked for a commitment to pursue the strike to win union recognition, not only a wage increase

      EMPLOTTED new pathway (2) : nonviolence, novelty and recognition

    6. reenacting who we have been and forging the persons we become. As an interaction among speakers and listeners

      identity : listener—hears story that shapes the way they think , teller—tells stories that showcase the way they think

    7. actors proceeding in legitimate ways toward valued goals who meet unexpected trouble, to which they must respond with innovative action leading to resolution along a new pathway, toward a new goal, or go down to defeat, from which a “moral” is drawn

      oooh. i get the story telling and history thing now.

  3. Sep 2019
    1. dodeterminetovaryingextentswhatgetsabsorbedintotheirownandwhatitgetsusedfor

      oh that's cool. yeah, i get that. is this sort of how pigeon works—when the plantation workers selected and invented hawaii creole english from the english spoken by the white landowners?

    2. transculturationtodescribeprocesseswherebymembersofsubordinatedormarginalgroupsselectandinventfrommaterialstransmittedbyadominantormetropolitanculture

      materials? what does that mean, thought?

    3. contactzones.Iusethistermtorefertosocialspaceswhereculturesmeet,clash,andgrapplewitheachother,oftenincontextsofhighlyasymmetricalrelationsofpower,suchascolonialism,slavery,ortheiraftermathsastheyarelivedoutinmanypartsoftheworldtoday

      key term

      contact zones: the space in which different cultures come together, most often when dealing w asymmetrical relations of power

    4. schoolingitselfgavehimnothingremotelyasmeaningfultodo,

      so she's arguing that even after providing the tools to open doors, education hasn't provided any opportunities to engage in anything meaningful? idk if that's fair, cos it's not necessarily the school's job to do that. with the tools, isn't sam supposed to create that kind of opportunity on his own?