ENGL 2130 & 2131 American Literature I & II: Scholarly Conversation
The Scholarly Conversation
Gaipa, Mark. "Breaking into the Conversation: How Students can Acquire Authority for their Writing." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture. vol. 4, no. 3, Fall 2004, pp. 419-437.
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. Fourth ed., W. W. Norton, 2018.
Effective Note-taking: Talk to the Author
"READ a little, THINK a little, TALK a little, WRITE a little."
8 Strategies for Critically Engaging Secondary Sources by jtougaw, Adapted from Mark Gaipa
- "Marginalia" by Billy Collins"...Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
skirmishes against the author
raging along the borders of every page
in tiny black script.
If I could just get my hands on you,
Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien,
they seem to say,
I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.
Other comments are more offhand, dismissive –
“Nonsense.” “Please!” “HA!!” – . . ." - "Scribbling in the Margins" by Andrew D. Scrimgeour"The jottings we make in the books we own may well be among the highest tributes we pay to authors. They are signs of respect, signs of engagement. What more could a writer hope for?"