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Coming To See Myself As A Vernacular Intellectual, Peter Elbow
Coming To See Myself As A Vernacular Intellectual, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
A short essay taken from remarks at the annual 2007 convention on getting the Exemplar Award. I look back over my career as an ongoing attempt to democratize writing--operating from the stance of a "vernacular intellectual" (a concept coined by Grant Farret).
Why Deny Speakers Of African American Language A Choice Most Of Us Offer Other Students?, Peter Elbow
Why Deny Speakers Of African American Language A Choice Most Of Us Offer Other Students?, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
Mainstream teachers commonly invite mainstream students to freewrite and use very informal language for early and mid drafts of important academic essays--and hold off surface editing till the end. This amounts to inviting mainstream students to do lots of writing in their spoken vernacular--and to wait till the end to edit into a clearly different dialect: edited ("correct standard") written English. This essay argues the same approach for speakers of African American Language--and addresses objections.
The Believing Game--Methodological Believing, Peter Elbow
The Believing Game--Methodological Believing, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
A defintion of the believing and doubting games; a thumbnail idealized history of believing and doubting; and three arguments why we need the believing game. Paper given 4/08 at annual CCCC.