Leigh Elion, Anna Floch, Stephanie Larson, Rebecka Manis, Emily Young
"Our project complicated Kathleen Yancey's notions of public writing. In her article "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key," Yancey refers frequently to "public writing," and discusses how to bring such writing into the classroom; she does not, however, delve into what constitutes public writing, or how it would translate to the classroom. The constructed doorway presents a series of photographs of writing events which push against Yancey's implicit categories of academic/classroom and non-academic/public writing; we discovered that some writing, though acted out in public, may be academic/intellectual and/or private, in addition/combination to those that were non-academic. Our own notions of writing, in our plight to complicate Yancey's, changed as a part of our process, which served only to further our critique of Yancey's piece."
