m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Can I say knowledge construction equates with rhetorical invention which equates to using weblogs to socially construct knowledge in academic learning communities?
Writing as Situated Thinking in General Education
Yvonne Merrill, University of Arizona:
Analysis, for example, was seen as a catch-all word for anything beyond recall, including not only categorization and description, but interpretation, synthesis and application [...]

I’m reading Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin for my American Lit class. His words sound so well together.

So much sadness here: “But people can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and [...]

I some good introductory material on Lacan on the web today.
Mary Klages at the University of Colorado, Boulder has a Lacan lecture online.
Let me take a stab at summarizing what I know about Lacan’s theory after reading her lecture:
Lacan is concerned with the unconscious (wishes, desires, images). The stuff of the unconscious forms signifiers [...]

I’ve been reading this weekend for my American Literature class. We’re reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. It’s not touching me or moving me in any way yet. Jake and Bill went fishing and the bulls have been let out. Chop. Chop. Chop.
I’m casting about in the other texts for the class [...]