http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/ This weblog exists as an outlet and archive for announcements, documents, notes, resources, events, and links from Syracuse University Writing Program's work on difference and diversity. Comments are welcome. 2006-08-28T10:48:46-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2006/08/documentary_res.html Documentary Resources compiled by Roger Hallas... films gr 2006-08-28T10:48:46-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2006/02/teaching_writin.html Teaching Writing With Film... films gr 2006-02-09T12:09:28-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2006/01/diversity_commi_1.html Diversity Committee Sponsors 17th Annual African-American Read-In... gr 2006-01-17T12:45:38-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/12/think_tank_mate.html DIVERSITY COMMITTEE EVENTS: THE ISSUES RAISED BY HILLTV Think Tank 1 Flyer Notes from Think Tank 1 Notes from Think Tank 1 Think Tank 2 Flyer WSP HillTV Forum Talk from Minnie Bruce Pratt... gr 2005-12-15T10:59:49-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/12/diversity_commi.html Diversity Committee Statement on HillTV... gr 2005-12-06T11:22:40-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/11/corporate_image.html from Jennnifer Wingard The purpose of the Corporate Image, Policy, and Culture Investigation unit and assignment is to get WRT 307 students to see the many ways that corporate culture is contradictory and varied. Students often think that the corporate... interrupting heteronormativity gr 2005-11-15T09:17:08-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/11/the_commentary.html From Elisa Norris In preparation for the commentary writing assignment, students screened either “Before Stonewall” or “After Stonewall.” I told them that they should be paying attention to any patterns or trends that may emerge as identifying patterns and trends... interrupting heteronormativity gr 2005-11-09T11:19:53-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/11/critically_exam.html from Kelly Concannon This assignment intends to work with students on issues surrounding representation and reality, through a critical analysis of the workings of power. Students are asked to work in small groups with their peers discussing the dominant narratives... interrupting heteronormativity gr 2005-11-08T11:14:12-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/10/looking_closer.html from Tyra O'Bryan In last semester's 205 class my class's shared text was Randall Kennedy's Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. My students' second research-paper assignment, the first of significant length for the semester, asked them to do,... interrupting heteronormativity gr 2005-10-31T11:27:46-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/10/interrupting_ho.html from Margaret Himley The purpose of this exercise is to get out of the het/homo binary, and look at the complexities within the queer community itself over the questions and practices of assimilation. Are gay families making the US world... interrupting heteronormativity gr 2005-10-28T18:14:54-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/10/gender_blending.html From Minnie Bruce Pratt This writing assignment is designed to help students bridge between LGB and T. It's important for students to understand that gender and sexuality are not the same, but that communities of sex-and-gender-oppressed people do overlap. Most... interrupting heteronormativity gr 2005-10-27T10:43:53-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/10/two_americas.html from Kelly Rawson This assignment appears toward the end of my third unit of WRT 105. This unit is concerned with gender and sexuality studies more broadly. We begin by looking at gender studies through the lens of transgender studies... interrupting heteronormativity gr 2005-10-27T10:27:05-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/10/short_skit_exer.html Short Skit exercise by Michael Dwyer I've never had any problems with my students actually doing readings. Most of the time, there is even a good amount of understanding about individual readings, as well. The problem in my class has... teachers@work gr 2005-10-19T11:03:26-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/10/bomb_the_suburb.html Bomb the Suburbs exercise by Michael Dwyer Also, I'm attaching a selection from Bomb the Suburbs. It's one of the more famous independently-produced books to come out of underground hip hop. It was published in 1994, so some of it... teachers@work gr 2005-10-19T10:09:05-05:00 http://wrt.syr.edu/blogs/bluepaper/archives/2005/05/resources_for_b.html The following exchange appeared on the Writing Program Administrators' listserv (WPA-L) on May 11, 2005: I will have a blind student in my College Writing class next fall. Our special services will record the essays from the assigned reader, but... UNcommon sense mryonker 2005-05-11T13:22:23-05:00