Some interesting ideas from Holly at the Community College English blog http://cce.typepad.com/
# Most writing, save those scribbled grocery lists and journal entries, is meant to be communication and thus a public performance of sorts, but does that mean the writer must choose subject matter of civic importance? # Suppose the writer’s interests are more inner-directed, her curiosity piqued more by psychological or philosophical questions rather than political or sociological issues. To what extent is this emphasis on “large-scale” events (the way so much history focuses on battle campaigns rather than the details of everyday life) a “masculine” sort of bias?
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Some interesting ideas from Holly at the Community College English blog
http://cce.typepad.com/
# Most writing, save those scribbled grocery lists and journal entries, is meant to be communication and thus a public performance of sorts, but does that mean the writer must choose subject matter of civic importance?
# Suppose the writer’s interests are more inner-directed, her curiosity piqued more by psychological or philosophical questions rather than political or sociological issues. To what extent is this emphasis on “large-scale” events (the way so much history focuses on battle campaigns rather than the details of everyday life) a “masculine” sort of bias?
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