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Day 36 Defining Cultural Humility

Source:  Waters, A. & Asbill, L. (2013, August). Reflections on cultural humility. CYF NEWS: American Psychological Association. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/newsletter/2013/08/cultural-humility.aspx What is Sacred: I have been sitting on this little one page article for months and I'm not sure why. I kept reading and re-reading the first line, knowing that I was going to use it, but it has been an open tab on my Chrome for a long time.  This is a short definition piece for cultural humility. It is the written elevator speech that helps to define what I am trying to do and what I need to do.  So nutshell of an already shortened piece: Cultural humility - "ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented (or open to the other) in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the [person]" (Hook, Davis, Owen, Worthington, & Utsey, 2013, p.2).  3 factors guide a...

Day 29: Multi-genre Texts as a Political Statement

Source: Jung, J. (2005). Do I belong "in" rhet/comp? Revision, identity and multigenre texts. S tudies in writing and rhetoric: Revisionary rhetoric, feminist pedagogy, and multigenre texts (29-55) .   Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. What is Sacred: Sometimes (most times) I do things a certain way because I know it's right for me and I know what my intentions are, but they are still hidden. Then I read something that has been sitting in my must read folder and the skies open up because someone wrote something that I was thinking. This is one of those. This is a complicated, look up words in the dictionary chapter to a very long titled book, but it was highlight AND take notes worthy, so I am putting it in my highlighted folder in Evernote for now until I figure out where to put it. This is about the multigenre essay form as a rhetorical strategy to be heard through disruption and juxtaposition. It specifically talks about the metadiscursive co...