Gerald Graff Essay

should not be taught when approaching literature. While this is true to some extent, I feel formulaic writing can be an advantageous tool depending on the extent of the restrictiveness. In Formulaic Is Not a 4-Letter Word by Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff you are able to see formulaic writing in an entirely new perspective with this quote, “Formulas, less invidiously called conventions, pervade everything we do” (Graft & Birkenstein 1). Instead of viewing formulaic writing as a standard…

what prohibits a majority of people from having enough funds to attend. If you fall into the higher middle class or upper class category then the cost may be the least of your worries . If you can afford it then the more likely you are to attend. Gerald Graff, an english education professor at the University…

Graff was a Jew who grew up in an ethnically mixed Chicago neighborhood so being a bookworm would have been a decisive reason to get beaten up (23). As he grew older the fear of being beaten up for reading was replaced by the fear of flunking out of college…

Are Too Many People Going to College? Charles Murray’s article “Are Too Many People Are Going to College?” explains a large point in the life of young Americans. He discuss some needs of our education system, and stated that it needs great improvement. He continued by talking about post-secondary education, how incoming college students come to school for all the wrong reasons, and that taking a step back, rethink, and evaluate their purposes of getting a college degree will be in their…

Hidden Deceptions Inside the Classroom Although I agree with the authors’ ideas about how the students struggle to communicate in the classroom and how the curriculum bypasses communication between courses, my opinion differ from Tannen’s; gender is just a factor of many others that influence the behavior of a student. The sharing of ideas is fundamental for the development of a student, in the old Greece the education used to be taught by the spoken word, so the student and teacher had…

and develop an argument to support my thesis. Then, I was able to develop my argument with the support of Loewen’s ideas. Here, I found that it is important in order to show the audience my position. On the other hand, They Say, I Say, written by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkstein, who are both professional writers, has helped me through the development of thinking about the readers and deciding whether to inform or to persuade them. For instance, I considered, in my essays, the unstated…

1 Watergate: Corruption, Paranoia, and Reforms. Elliott G. Cooper Pioneer Jr. Sr. High School. U. S. History Mr. Erik Riise March 4, 2024 2 Watergate: Corruption, Paranoia, and Reforms. As the 1970s began, America was recovering from tragedies such as the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy. As America started recuperating, one of the greatest burglaries in history occurred, shocking the nation. President Richard Nixon was…

Technology Negatively Affects Society We have become a society that cannot survive without technology. Technology has a negative effect on society because it separates us from reality. Technology affects us because we cannot let things such as our laptop, phone, game systems, and iPod out of reach. Three major types of technology that negatively affect us are cell phones, laptops, and game systems because it distracts us and makes us less productive. We are constantly glued to our phones…

the field of psychology. The scientific method, clear communication, empathy, and ethics are four topics that all psychologists must value, and these values are discussed in the writings of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Gerald Graff’s Clueless in Academe, and Jim Kuyper’s Rhetorical Criticism. To begin, the scientific method…

In 2011, Chad Newbrough Steacy wrote his thesis, Discourse in the Abandoned Small Town: Toward a Critical Geography of Decline. The title must be Steacy’s best expression of his interpretation of the state of affairs in the small town of Sunbury, PA. Steacy elaborates in the heart of his thesis, “An indication of the economic change that has affected Sunbury is the large amount of abandoned industrial space woven into the town’s landscape.” (Steacy, 2011). Clearly, Steacy is writing about a…