http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/ faults | sins | abuses Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/#comment-23839 vitia » Blog Archive » CCCC06: Bullshit! Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:03:30 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/#comment-23839 [...] To start, she began by describing how she “asks students to compose two to three pages of bullshit on vague topics like fear or patriotism,” because plagiarism and bullshit both spring from a failure to prepare. (I wonder what Amy would make of my plagiarism sequence.) Robillard cited Lindquist’s description of the “what if?” characteristics of academic discourse (and one of Lindquist’s working-class Smokehouse respondents, “Walter,” who declared “Bullshit on ‘What if!’”) in order to propose that writing teachers might do well to play up the connections between “what if” and bullshit. In characterizing some forms of discourse that he used as “bullshit,” Walter disowned his own rhetorical labor by devaluing it, and in so doing strategically held on to the working-class identity he privileged, by proposing that his affectual and authentic working-class rhetorical strategies were inherently more valuable that the “bullshit” that — to some — exists as rhetoric for its own sake; word-wanking without referent or valuation. [...] [...] To start, she began by describing how she “asks students to compose two to three pages of bullshit on vague topics like fear or patriotism,” because plagiarism and bullshit both spring from a failure to prepare. (I wonder what Amy would make of my plagiarism sequence.) Robillard cited Lindquist’s description of the “what if?” characteristics of academic discourse (and one of Lindquist’s working-class Smokehouse respondents, “Walter,” who declared “Bullshit on ‘What if!’”) in order to propose that writing teachers might do well to play up the connections between “what if” and bullshit. In characterizing some forms of discourse that he used as “bullshit,” Walter disowned his own rhetorical labor by devaluing it, and in so doing strategically held on to the working-class identity he privileged, by proposing that his affectual and authentic working-class rhetorical strategies were inherently more valuable that the “bullshit” that — to some — exists as rhetoric for its own sake; word-wanking without referent or valuation. [...]

]]> http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/#comment-19100 mike Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:36:58 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/#comment-19100 Good idea, Clancy. Done, and thanks. Good idea, Clancy. Done, and thanks.

]]> http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/#comment-19060 Clancy Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:45:36 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/#comment-19060 Hey, Mike, you ought to tag both of these posts "Teaching Carnival" so you can get linked in the next one. Hey, Mike, you ought to tag both of these posts “Teaching Carnival” so you can get linked in the next one.

]]> http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/#comment-18971 John Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:03:56 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/11/03/and-plagiarize-we-did/#comment-18971 Thanks for sharing this. Thanks for sharing this.

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