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The Abcs Of Sensibility: The Literacy Of Feeling, Adrianne Wadewitz
The Abcs Of Sensibility: The Literacy Of Feeling, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
No abstract provided.
Wiki-Writing: Teaching With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz
Wiki-Writing: Teaching With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
In this half-day workshop, we would like to introduce participants to the variety of ways Wikipedia can be used in the classroom. Wikis of all sorts have become increasingly powerful tools to teach writing at the college level and we would like to help participants envisage a wide scope of writing assignments using Wikipedia—assignments that emphasize traditional writing and research skills across the disciplines as well as the importance of newer skills such as media and technological literacy. Among the topics we will cover are: writing for a global readership; collaborative writing; the assessment of sources; the ambiguity between fact-based …
‘Spare The Sympathy, Spoil The Child:’ Sensibility, Selfhood, And The Maturing Reader, 1775-1815, Adrianne Wadewitz
‘Spare The Sympathy, Spoil The Child:’ Sensibility, Selfhood, And The Maturing Reader, 1775-1815, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
Surveying the archive of late eighteenth-century children's literature, this dissertation argues that children's authors constructed a version of subjectivity based in the passions. Challenging the dominant Lockean model, these writers drew on Rousseau's theory of education and the discourse of sensibility to construct a “sympathetic self.” Children's writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, and Maria Edgeworth highlighted the role of pain and suffering in the creation of the self; in so doing, they reimagined the discourse of sensibility, promoting a selfhood that was collective, benevolent, and imaginative. Significantly, this “sympathetic self” was available to both sexes …
Wiki-Hacking: Opening Up The Academy With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz, Anne Ellen Geller, Jon Beasley-Murray
Wiki-Hacking: Opening Up The Academy With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz, Anne Ellen Geller, Jon Beasley-Murray
Adrianne Wadewitz
No abstract provided.