New Terms

Process 2
Social 2
Contextual
Discourse
Flexibility
Inclusion
Argument
Community
Ideology
Literacy

Map of composition

We feel that community is already represented in our map. Initially, the white and sky blue elephant are a secluded community, but with the arrival of the periwinkle elephant the notion of community has to change (which is represented by the largest circle) because the terms are disrupted/complicated by the arrival of a new elephant and thus the community needs to change to incorporate difference.

Our map represents the insider/outsider aspect of the community. As indicated by the key words—hierarchy, agency, and discourse—the white and sky blue elephant are members of the insider community and initially, the periwinkle elephant is a member of the outsider group but he also becomes the exigence for this community to make room for each other and redefine their understanding of their world. Also, our elephants are making meaning about community because they confronted by difference and thus, have to remake their notions of community.

Map of composition

From: AnnaMaria, Spencer, Angie and Katie

Community and our Map:

Community is rooted in an insider and outsider relationship and that
dynamic can create or limit agency. Most elements are sandwiched
between context and Production. Production is necessary to invent the
community.

Insiderness is a produced position. Identity and subject position are
produced by community.

Our 6 keywords move between production and context, but all the terms
are subsumed by community.

Individual names are representatives of different interests of a
community. Post Colonialism says something about the replication of
communities.

Stacy, Stephen, and Kat Map the World (of Comp)

The map forms two main conceptual loops that overlap at the point of ideology and discourse. The top loop, including agency, identity, subject position, and rhetorical sovereignty, concerns identities. The lower loop of community, multiplicity, discourse, literacy, and error, concerns communities. In addition, the proximity of each Post-it indicates close relationship between the terms; for example, community is close to rhetorical sovereignty because the two concepts are closely related in that rhetorical sovereignty is located within a community. The loops, in other words, do not constitute the only relationships among the terms.

Speaking of Assessment

Head of SAT Program Defends Reality TV Question

Last week's news that the latest essay question on the SAT focused on reality television has set off quite a bit of media commentary and comedy. The Huffington Post, for example, suggested that the College Board might shift the focus of the SAT entirely, with questions requiring aspiring college students to calculate the circumference of a Kim Kardashian body part, or to "compare and contrast the social impact of Kanye West's interruption of the VMA's with his tweet on abortion."

The College Board is not making any apologies, however, and is stressing that the essay questions it asks are judged not on content knowledge, but on the ability to explore an issue and make an argument. Laurence Bunin, senior vice president of the College Board, wrote an essay on the controversy for The Daily Beast, saying that all of the "breathless commentary" was irrelevant.

"The central task of the SAT essay -- any SAT essay -- is to take one side of an issue and develop an argument to support that position. Questions raised about the so-called reality-show prompt miss this basic point entirely and confuse the literal topic with the task of writing the essay. Everything a student needs to write a successful essay is included in the prompt itself; one need not have spent any time watching a 'reality' television program to write a strong essay," Bunin wrote. "If the topic had been about balancing the risk of climbing a mountain with the reward of reaching the summit, for example, you could write that essay without ever having done so. It’s about the balance, not the mountain climbing. Students tell us that they can relate to popular-culture references. Using such references is not only appropriate, but potentially even more engaging for students."

Role of Assessment

What's the role of assessment in any theory of composition?

Key Terms

Katie, Anna Maria, Spencer

SET ONE

Other
Con/DisCensus
Identity
Agency
Postcolonial
Genre
Resistance
Subject Position
Community
Difference

SET TWO

(Stacy, Stephen, Kat)

1. discourse
2. identity
3. subject position
4. rhetorical sovereignty
5. agency
6. error
7. community
8. multiplicity
9. literacy
10. ideology

SET THREE

a. Identification
b. Representation
c. Agency
d. Discourse
e. Difference
f. Hierarchy
g. Exigence
h. Subject
i. Margins /Marginal(ized)
j. Context

Logan, Emani, Leigh, and Jen

the key terms from Marian, Larkin, & me:
metaphor
metanomy
interruption
subjectivity
cross-talk
identity
contact/combat zones
authority
consensus
compliance