ENGL 30101 Writing and Rhetorical Conventions

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ENGL 301-01Writing and Rhetorical Conventions

• Position Paper 1, Rubric Discussions, and Omi and
  Winant

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Homework

• For Tuesday
• Print, Read, Comment/Assess position papers (Joe,
  Brett, Tyler, Brad, and Shawn)
• Print, read, and bring to class our new rubric
• Do Week 5 Reflections

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Overview

• Homework (5 mins)
• Position Papers (45-50 mins)
• Rubric Discussion (10 mins)
• Omi and Winant Notes (15 mins)

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Position Papers

• As Michael reads, mark
• the support you see him using to back up his
  claims
• the original ideas he offers us

Look at our rubric. What areas can Michael work
on the most? Explain to him the potential his
paper has in these areas.
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Position Papers

• As Jacob reads, mark
• the ideas that seem most interesting, engaging,
  or arguable

Look at our rubric. What areas can Jacob work on
the most? What potential does his position paper
have? Explain.
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Position Papers

• As Krystal reads, mark
• her core support for the question/claim she
  offers at the end of paragraph 1

Again, refer to our rubric. Where can Krystal
start revising? What potential can she capitalize
on in her paper? Explain.
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Position Papers

• As Charlotte reads, mark
• the original ideas she offers us
• the engaging, interesting, or arguable ideas
  and/or claims she makes

Again, refer to our rubric. Where can Charlotte
start revising? What potential might she
capitalize on in her paper? Explain.
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Rubric Discussion

• Take out your. . .
• lists of rubric changes
• our rubric
• Discussion? Pleas for changes?
• Make any revisions you think NOW is necessary to
  our rubric.
• Turn it in to me with your name on it.
• Ill post these changes tonight. Please print off
  our new rubric and use it immediately.

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Omi and Winant Notes

• Race becomes common sense, a way of
  comprehending, explaining, and acting in the
  world. (60)

Discursive Representational
Identified Signified
Routinized Standardized
Institutions Practices
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Omi and Winant Notes

• Race is an unstable and decentered complex of
  social meanings constantly being transformed by
  political struggle. Race is a concept which
  signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and
  interests by referring to different types of
  human bodies (55).
• Race is an element of social structure rather
  than an irregularity within it . . . race is a
  dimension of human representation (55), and it
  is now a political phenomenon (65).
• Racial Formation the sociohistorical process by
  which racial categories are created, inhibited,
  transformed, and destroyed (55). Thus race is a
  matter of both social structure and cultural
  representation (56).

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Omi and Winant Notes

• Interpretations of race
• Neoconservative projects, or color-blind
  projects (57)
• Liberal projects, or social structure projects
  (57)
• The history of racial dictatorship and hegemony
  leads to
• American citizen as white (66)
• Organized the color-line in the U.S.
• Consolidated the oppositional racial
  consciousness and organization (e.g. black vs.
  white)

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Omi and Winant Notes

• Hegemony (coercion and consent) from Antonio
  Gramsci (67).
• Racial rule a slow and uneven historical
  process which moved from dictatorship to
  democracy, from domination to hegemony (67).
• Racism creates and/or reproduces structures of
  domination based on essentialized categories of
  race (71).
• Racism is both ideological and structural (74-5).