Carol Berkenkotter, “Decisions and Revisions of

a Publishing Writer”

Donald Murray, “Response of a Laboratory Rat”

Write Explain the concept of death to the 10-12

year-old-readers of Jack and Jill magazine. You have five minutes.

Reflection When Murray was asked to

respond to the prompt, “explain the concept of death to the 10-12 year-old-readers of Jack and Jill magazine,” he froze up. Compare your experiences responding to the same prompt with his. Why do you think he had such a hard time writing? Did you have a hard time as well? Why or why not?

Research as conversation What is Berkenkotter adding to the conversation? What would she say (or does she say) in response

to Perl? What can you add to the conversation?

Perception vs. reality What did Berkenkotter learn through the

research process? What surprised her? Degree of audience awareness throughout entire

composing process (270) Planning (process goals/rhetorical goals) (264-65) Revision (“reconceiving,” discovery) (266-67) Incubation (268)

Perception vs. reality cont’d What did Murray learn about himself? What

surprised him? Time spent planning (274) Length of incubation time (275) Revision as planning (“reconceiving”)(275) Degree of audience awareness (275) One hour protocol is hard (273)

Sharing my processes Murray writes that “we have an ethical

obligation to write and to reveal our writing to our students if we are asking them to share their writing with us” (273). So, in the spirit of fulfilling my ethical obligation…

My composing process

Never have I ever… Never have I ever… Like Murray, I… Like Tony, I… When I write, I…

Evolution of a title The Objectified Subject: Elizabeth

Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis The Subjectified Object: Elizabeth

Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis “Becoming” Objects: Elizabeth Stuart

Phelps’s The Story of Avis “Becoming” Subjects: Destabilizing

Gendered Vision in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis

“Becoming” Subjects: Towards a Democratized Politics of Vision in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis

Mastering Vision: The Woman Artist as Object and Agent in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis

“Becoming” Subjects: The Woman Artist as Object and Agent in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis

“Becoming” Subjects: The Woman Artist as Object and Agent of the Gaze in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s “Becoming” Subjects: Envisioning the Woman Artist as Object and Agent in The Story of Avis

“Becoming” Subjects in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis: Envisioning the Woman Artist as Object and Agent

Why is the title so important to Murray?

Think about your title for your unit 1 paper. Would you revise it now, after having read the articles by Berkenkotter and Murray?

Genre Murray writes, “I suspect that when we begin

to write in a new genre we have to do a great deal of revision, but that as we become familiar with a genre we can solve more writing problems in advance of a completed text” (275).

What genres are you familiar with? As you’re writing in a new genre for your unit

2 assignment (ethnography), how do you think your process will change?

What can you learn from Murray?