Cixous

Cixous

Summary

            Cixous talks about how she see that women should write in a women’s voice and men should write in a males voice. She’s trying to make the point that women need to make there mark in the writing community. She try’s to back up her points with sexual references. Also she even balms men for putting women “in the dark”.

Syntheses

            Cixous paper is like Flynn’s paper. They both talk about woman and men’s in they’re writing and how there perceived in their discourse communities.

Reflection

            I don’t like this writing as much because I really don’t like the sexual references. I feel it’s a little over the top and too much. She talks about women getting thee own voices and not use men’s voices but the sexual comments/references makes her sound as though she has a “male’s voice”, which counteracts her point. Also she never says what a “women’s voice” is but yells about it non stop for use to find it so it doesn’t help the matter.

Alexander

Alexander

-This shows what he would do and go through to be who he wants to be and how people react to it. -This shows how he is happy with all he’s doing and wants to continue but on the other hand he didn’t know if he should continue because of his family. -This provides you with a idea on how to try stepping in another’s shoes mostly the opposite gender. -You get to understand whet exactly he’s wanting to do and were he’s getting at.

-Califia-Rice’s life seemed strange to them, even as they applauded his willingness to undergo hormone treatments and suffer the taunts and harassment of those who do not understand his life. -“When I think that I can continue with this process - get chest surgery and pass as a male – I feel happier than at any other point in my life. And when I think that something will stop me, I become very depressed. (family)” -Virtually assuming another genders perspective, or what you think is another genders perspective for one hour in a classroom may de instructive about many things. -“Instead of trying to discover what makes a written voice distinctly woman’s, or a man’s, I want to focus on how language can be manipulated to make readers believe that they is a gendered self contained in the margins.”

Smitherman

Smitherman

-This shows us a lot of were the English language itself originated from, which I think it is important. -Forming and shifting someone’s norms are in play, transition from “outsider” to a “insider”. -Presenting a cut line picture what they are and aren’t doing. -It contradicting but that’s what makes it good, it shows how they say we should all have statuses there is still some places that don’t when they should. -We have all felt like this at one time of another, when we get a paper back and there nothing really on it, you don’t know how to interpret it or what exactly your suppose to do with it after that.

-the English language itself, didn’t command no respect, for Latin was the lingo of the elite. -Both authorities and norms is based on race and class positions and is simply attempts to make the “outsider” talk like the “insider”. -superimposition of a dialect norm has little to do with power, linguistic versatility, or variety of expression and everything to do with making what one grammarian labeled the “depraved language of common people” -in a country where everybody has status, it’s possible that no one has status -  The paper was returned to the student with only one comment, correct your grammar resubmit. What sheer and utter nonsense

           

Delpit

Delpit

Summary

            Delpit is sending her message out to teachers, about how they do and should teach poor children and of race. She uses stories to try and back up her point on literacy. She also refers to Gee who at some point goes opposite with her points.

Synthesis

            Compares her point with Gee sometime works but other times doesn’t. One instant it doesn’t work is with how she thinks that people can be made to fit into society but on the other hand Gee doesn’t feel the same.

Reflection

            I like how she put stories in it, just like how Malcom X. Also I feel like it proves more of a point too

Flynn

Flynn

Summary

            Flynn writes about women and mean writings mostly. But I also feel as though this talks about how the genders are seen in society, “The mental processes that are involved in considering the abstract and the impersonal have been labeled “thinking” and are attributed primarily to me, wile those that deal with the personal and interpersonal fall under the rubric of “emotion” and are largely relegated to women.”, when I read this it makes me think its saying that society has it a certain view of it all.

           

Synthesis

I feel that Flynn goes through and billed her own synthesis. Through her writing she refers to other people and there writings. As in talking about Carol Gilligan’s In a different voice or like in William Perry’s Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the college years. 

Reflection

            I kind of feel in certain aspect this was serotype. I feel that like in this but I feel that over time society has and hasn’t changed. Women can join the military but there is positions we cant go do, we could become doctors, lawyers, and so on that are more higher up positions in like but were not taken as seriously and we have to work harder then men do at tim

Heilker and Melanie

-I like how it tells when the awareness day came into play and how. -This provides how many children are diagnosed a year and how there isn’t much known about it though. -When you read this you realize how it actually is good to have silence at times. -It pointing out how its part of communication. -It explains more on their speech problems. -Explains how people feel and thinks output of autism.

- April 2. 2008, was the first World Autism Awareness Day, which was voted into existence by the United Nations General Assemble. -“remains on of the greatest mysteries of medicine […] Although autism will be diagnosed in more that 25000 U.S. children this year, scientists and doctors still know very little about the neurological disorder. -about autism really is – and, equally important, on how rhetorical any silence about eurotypicality really is. -Most definitions of rhetoric focus on the role of communication in social interaction. -autism are also legion, what they, too, have in common is a focus on language use in the social realm, a focus on communication in social interaction. -The National Institute of Health defines autism as “a spectrum that encompasses a wide range of behavior” but whose “common features include impaired social interaction, impaired verbal and nonverbal communication, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior”

Villanuava

Villanuava

            He talks about stereotypic and racisms form and perspectives. They use stories and poems to give back up to his view. He also sorts through his own self and going through his own things, wile going through and talking bout memories also.