Yancey - Made Not Only in Words
Summary
Kathleen Blake Yancey wrote Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key. Yancey at the beginning says how enthusiast now a day’s go-ahead motivating public writing. Then she started making different questions that she will be answering throughout the lecture, “What is writing? Does it include writing for the screen? Is composing about medium and technology? (298-299)…” As Yancey goes ahead explaining she emphasize in the 19th century reading comparing it with today’s great writing public. In the 19th century, “Technology played a major role… with a new steam printing press and cheaper paper…There were political and economic reasons as well. People read together sometimes in reading circles (299-300)…” Writers in the 21st century, “ They self-organize into what seem to be overlapping technologically driven writing circles, what we might call a series of newly imagined communities… Composers gather in Internet chat rooms; they participate in listservs dedicated to both ridiculous and the sublime (301)…” Yancey was surprised with the fact that throughout the years there has been more access to education and so much of this is notice in writing, what the surprise is in here is that much of it has nothing to do with school. Yancey goes ahead and in the second quarter she explains what the questions she did before relate to teachers and other people in the field of composition. She then talked about some practiced realized when teaching composition and she said the following at the end of the second quarter, “We already inhabit a model of communication practices incorporating multiple genres related to each other ,those multiple genres … circulated across and around rhetorical situations (308).” On the third quarter Yancey said important recommendations, “Three Changes: develop a new curriculum, revisit and revise our writing across the curriculum efforts, and develop major in composition and rhetoric (308).” Then Yancey suggests us to think about, “Circulation of Texts in a multivalent way: public, contextual, intertextual, etc… (311)” “She says that in this cases circulation is about genre and knowledge making… (312)”To finalize the lecture she said, “In helping create writing publics, we also foster the development of citizens whose civic literacy is global in its sensibility and its communicative potential, and whose commitment to humanity is characterized by consistency and generosity as well as the ability to write for purposes that are unconstrained and audiences that are nearly unlimited (321)." |
Synthesis
Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key written by Kathleen Blake Yancey its an interesting lecture where most of the lecture uses comparison to compare and contrast 21st century and 19th century. She talks about what is writing and the importance of publi writing and wirting public. During the lecture she maks and interesting suggestion whic was, "Three Changes: develop a new curriculum, revisit and revise our writing across the curriculum efforts, and develop major in composition and rhetoric (308)." I think that this is very important because with this steps you may simplify your work when doing composition. I could also notice that this lecture uses rhetoric as a way to encounter development with writting and the different ways it has been changing through out time. |