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Jacob Riis and Double Consciousness: The Documentary/Ethnic I in How the Other Half Lives
Contradictory is the watchword in scholarship on Danish-American photojournalist Jacob Riis. Wildly contradictory, morally schizophrenic : so Keith Gandal describes Riis\u27 work (18). A deeply contradictory figure [...] a conservative activist and a skillful entertainer who presented controversial ideas in a compelling but ultimately comforting manner : such is the assessment of Riis offered by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom (xv). The typical Victorian moralist, but also the Progressive-so Tom Buk-Swienty proclaims him (239, XIII)
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Two's Company, Three's a Conversation: A Study of Dialogue Among A Professor, A Peer-Writing Fellow, and Undergraduates Around Feedback and Writing
A single teacher’s comments on student writing
may feel less like a readerly interpretation of a text
than directive instructions for writing “better,” closing
possibilities for conversations about writing. Instead,
when an instructor opens a space for feedback from
multiple voices, the resulting dialogue could gesture
toward the plurality of readings possible for one text
and create a space for a writer to exercise and
articulate choice. As a writing fellow in an art history
class at an urban, private, religiously-affiliated
university, I worked with the professor to provide
feedback to student writers that modeled a multiperson
conversation around their writing. Using
Microsoft Word’s “Review” function, the professor
and I commented on both student writing and each
other’s comments. At the end of the semester, I
reviewed these comments and noticed an interesting
record on the page. These collaborative comments,
along with e-mails and my logs from conferences with
students in the University Writing Center, reveal the
development of a conversation that recognizes a
multiplicity of readerly interpretations. This method of
feedback has the potential to invite students and
teachers to enter into an interactive and stimulating
discourse that re-positions the authority of both,
encouraging students to more freely discuss their
writing as authors.University Writing Cente
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