Reading Response 22: Alexander

For the Reading Response on Alexander,

Please complete the following:

• Summary
• Synthesis
• Personal Response

Applying and Exploring Ideas #3 and #4:

3.       What significance trans pedagogy hold for everyone within a composition class, according to Alexander? In other words, what can “normally” gendered students gain from exposure to trans theory in their composition classrooms? Does this significance hold true for every minority discourse we have read in class?

4.       On page 200, Alexander describes gender as a “construct” that is “deeply personal and profoundly political.” What does Alexander mean when he calls gender a “construct?” What are the implications of such a construct being both “personal” and “political” and why then might we need to address this construct in the writing classroom?

Final Drafts of Project 3 - The Ethnography are due Tuesday  (11/20) before 8pm. Please email them to me as an email attachment.