Insert clever and insightful title here.

Hello everyone! My name's Jess. Unfortunately, to be fair and warn you ahead of time, I have no interesting anecdotes in which to give you a clearer glimpse into my ever so fascinating personality/life.

I'm a sophomore English Lit major here at KU. I'll probably end up adding on a Pro Writing minor somewhere along the way, as soon as I stop procrastinating. I'm not really into too many clubs right now, but this year I'm considering sending some things into Shoofly, Keystone, annnd who knows what else?

So what is there to say? I'm generally very quiet, so this class should be an interesting experience. I love writing, reading, and merely thinking about stuff. I hail from somewhere in between the "Sweetest Place on Earth" and Harrisburg. I wake up in the summers to the smell of cow manure wafting in the humid air, although sometimes a hint of chocolate finds it way in there, creating somewhat of an odd mixture. But I digress. This entry has somehow turned to cow crap.

Anyways, I'm excited for this semester and all that. Hope to learn a lot from this class!

I'M BACK and FOCUSED

Hello class, Hello world.

My Name is Yolanda. ( quick fact : Yolanda is a form of Spanish violet or can be interpreted as pretty as a violet.)

I am a senior Professional Writing major with a minor in Public Relations. Following graduaion I hope to work in the field of public relations with the desiree of one day becoming a publisit to the stars. Preferably a basketball player or rapper so they can introduce me to some of their handsome team mates and friends.

I am from the Philadelphia area originally but I currently reside in Upper Darby with mi familia.
(I had to take 4 years of spanish for my major as you can see it payed off...yeah right)

Anyway I will not bore you any longer.
I just wanted to introduce my self and say that i hope this semester will be more productive then previous ones. I feel that my head is one straight and I am just looking foward to walking down the aile and finishing up this part of my journy through LIFE..

Miracles and Blessings
Yo MC

And so it goes..

I will start this entry off by saying that I am terrible at writing about myself; so please, do not expect much. My name is Jamie Hicks and I am, as many are, a Secondary Education major concentrating in English. I transferred to Kutztown from Harrisburg Area Community College - Gettysburg. I am living on campus, NOT commuting from Gettysburg, and have found a very comfortable home in the Education House. As much as I love it here so far, being a transfer student has not made my entry into the college easy. I'm not sure if I am a Freshman or a Sophomore and am still trying to figure out how many credits I need to make up to be ahead of, or at least only slightly behind, what is required.

I have not joined any clubs so far but I plan to audition for the University Choir, the Sunshine Players and Newsbreak. Like many new students I am learning that home sickness is a real disease; I am hoping that it will be at least partially cured when I go home to visit my family for Labor Day.

Last semester, at HACC, I took an argumentative writing course. We covered many sections and spent about one quarter of the course on Visual Rhetoric. Though I did receive a fairly high score on my Rhetoric paper, I found the subject to be uninteresting and tedious. The fact that my teacher was a complete idiot, however, might have something to do with that. I look forward to taking another stab at the subject and surviving my very first 3 hour class this semester.

Hello All!

Hello! My name is Erin. I am a junior in the Secondary Education English program. I am almost 25 years old and feel like I have been on a very long road to get to where I am now. I started Kutztown right out of highschool in 2001 and quit almost immediately after I began. I proceded to venture into beauty school, worked for a while, went to community college, changed my major quite a few times and finally transferred back to KU into the same major I started out in! This whole thing is kind of frustrating because I feel like I missed out on some pretty important "college life" experiences and stayed in school alot longer than need be. Oh well! I guess there's nothing to do about it now except to work hard and enjoy myself along the way. I live with my boyfriend about 20 minutes from campus. I take care of a 6 year old little girl who has cerebral palsy and is in a wheel chair. She has the best personality and outlook in the world though and I love spending time with her. That's about all I guess! Good luck to everyone this semester!

Cat Stevens Please!

So I've already done one of these for Mahoney and I was really tempted to just copy and paste it but you guys deserve better than that, so here goes:
I'm a sophomore secondary education English major. This is my first year as the Secondary Education Chairperson for SPSEA and I'm excited about that. I expect all of you education majors to come to our picnic September 18th at the Kutztown Park because the more secondary education majors that come, the higher my self esteem will be. Plus it's extremely beneficial and looks good on a resume :)
This is also my first year as a DR at University Place. The dorms have only been open a week and I've already accumulated a lot of intersting stories. I work the late night shifts so the only people that come by are usually either under the influence of something or creepy insomniacs like myself. For example, a couple of nights ago a boy walked in after midnight with a guitar in hand and I asked him if he could play well. He smiled and started strumming away. He asked if I had any requests and I responded with "Cat Stevens, please!" He look ashamed and told me that he didn't know anything by him so I jokingly told him he would not be allowed back in the building until he could play "Moonshadow." The next day around 2 in the morning I was doing some homework when I heard someone come in. I raised my head and to my disbelieve it was the same boy, once again guitar in hand. Before I could even say anything he started playing "Moonshadow." I'm pretty sure he terrified the few freshman that were in the lobby at the time but it made my night and distracted me from my Lit homework.
On a side note I also enjoy candlelight dinners, romantic walks on the beach and obscure Post-Soviet Union Ukranian literature.

As you can see I'm semi-invloved in school, very passionate about my major and I'm often surrounded by weirdos. Thus, I should fit right in Dr. Mahoney's course.

Welcome to Advanced Comp, Blog Roll 2007

Hey all,

Well, another academic year is upon us and here we go with ENG 230 Advanced Composition...Mahoney-style.

The title of this course, "Public Pedagogy: Managed Discourse and Available Means," signifies that this course has a rhetorical bent and is interested in how discourse is "managed," controlled, and manipulated in our current world. The rhetorical approach of this class means that we will be looking at the social and political contexts of discourse and will inquire into how we can intervene in this context.

This blog will be part of the little experiment we have going. As you can see, you have entered a "conversation" that has continued over the course of several semesters. We will be talking about writing as an on-going conversation all throughout this class. In his book The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action, Kenneth Burke, a literary and rhetorical scholar, gave us the following metaphor of a “parlor” to highlight the conversational nature of knowledge making and, I would argue, writing:

Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument, then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him [or her]; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself [or herself] against you, to either the embarrassment of gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress (110-111, brackets mine).

So, let the conversation begin...I'm looking forward to our little late-night rhetorical salon...Welcome!!!

This is a Space Between Semesters

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