Author Archives: adrienneoliva

My research question: How does the demand for flexibility from Composition and Rhetoric Ph.D. candidates make them feel economically exploited? Composition and Rhetoric is the field I plan to do into in grad school and my future Ph.D. endeavor, and it’s always attracted me because I am fascinated in communication. Comp/Rhet students do a lotContinue reading “SWA 1”

Step 1: Quality in labor environment–weird binary between poor work conditions and great chairs. Templates for writing–different genres of writing, streamlining, common trend in writing? Step 2: Surprise–emphasis on avoiding more emotional labor. Why do these people call these centers when they can look up info on their own? Step 4: Automation and avoiding emotionalContinue reading “Engagement 3/11”

Interview Q for linguistic Prof: How do you balance the writing you do for your research with the writing you do for your classroom? Does the strain between these two areas of writing make it difficult to keep up with different aspects of your research?

In this article, Lisa Nakamura discusses how the online community members who actively fight sexism and racism on their online platforms are doing labor, akin to more traditional laborers. These online laborers are often women of color, and people part of racial and sexual minorities who put in time and knowledge to educate people onlineContinue reading “Response: The Unwanted Labor of Social Media”

I think the most interesting question that came up to me as I read the past readings came up in “Writing for a Living”, when it was mentioned that those who participate in the knowledge economy, like those who write for a living, become the means of production, which makes it easier to be exploited.Continue reading “3/4 Engagement”

            In Deborah Brandt’s “Writing for a Living,” she explores how the knowledge economy affects and intermingles with the idea of literacy, and how the relationship between these two things affect those who actually write for a living. Brandt starts the article by explaining that literacy is inherently at the heart of the knowledge economy—asContinue reading “Response: Writing for a Living”

Genre/composition choices: My article is written as an article that would be seen on the site Pitchfork–a site made for music journalism. I wanted to write my article with this specific audience in mind, as I would assume that a general audience might not have the same interest in up and coming artist Kali UchisContinue reading “Rationale 1 Workshop”

I think the strongest uses of rhetoric by Tolentino happen when she is uses her analysis of the Kavanaugh hearing to persuade the reader that women speaking up is also causing more men to relish in their defensiveness. I think she makes a really logical rhetorical jump to how men enjoy the feeling of beingContinue reading “Engagement 2/26”

When I first moved into my apartment, I got a note slid under my door that my TV was playing too loud (Which could have totally been my bad–I have poor hearing and sometimes don’t realize the proper volume of things). But I literally just moved in, like a week in, and received this note!Continue reading “Engagement 2/24”

            In this article, Melissa Gregg describes different coping mechanisms and social structures white collar workers are complicit to as a result of the “drudgery of workplace life,” and larger economic shifts in the middle class. Gregg describes current white collar employees as falling victim to precarity—which is described as the state of not havingContinue reading “Response: On Friday Night Drinks”