[lbo-talk] Gladwell: The Difference BetweenMovementsand Networks

[wrobert at uci.edu]

Speaking from the literature side, I've often found my introductory comp
students to be pretty weak on genre distinctions.  So one one hand,
slipping into the problems you gesture towards below, but on the other
hand, often putting a set of expectations on fictional narratives that
doesn't really engage with it as fiction as such.  (more should be said on
this.)  I don't have a causal explanation for this to get Carrol very
angry at me about, but it does seem to indicate that the narratives about
youthful media literacy that are so often provided by composition
departments (and by comp departments, I really mean my comp department)
need to be complicated at the very least.  robert wood


> increasing numbers of students call the monographs I assign "novels" and
> refer to the researchers as authors...
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> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Jordan Hayes
> <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>wrote:
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>> Chuck Grimes writes:
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>>  I am curious why people read books like this. They seem
>>> like junk sociology.
>>>
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>> There really ought to be a legal reference for the distinction between
>> Fiction and Non Fiction.
>>
>> /jordan
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