Voice as a Metaphor in the Electrate First Year Composition ClassroomElectrate Voice and FYCElectracy is the third apparatus; it does not replace orality and literacy; rather, it supplements the two existing apparatuses as a third apparatus for new invention in our culture and industries. Electracy is also a space for new invention within the FYC classroom.
Voice is a common metaphor within the field of rhetoric and composition, though it has expansive interpretations and contention regarding FYC pedagogy. Voice is also a space for new invention within the FYC classroom. |
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Ulmer's Apparatus Theory & Electrate Voice in FYCFrom Orality to Electracy:"In the beginning, all literature was voice. That is, what we call literature started out in every culture as voiced-- as actual speech, song, or chant"
-Peter Elbow In literacy, voice loses its place and becomes lost. In electracy, the metaphor of voice appears to find its home again. |
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Punctum and Pedagogy
A Pedagogy of Punctum: Voice & Electrate FYC
Punctum "is the element which rises from the scene, shoots out of it like an arrow, and pierces" us.
Punctum is "an accident which pricks ... but also bruises, [and] is poignant" to us. -Roland Barthes |