Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English by Robert Scholes

Textual Power is the first book on my list, because it was one of the books I did not particularly value reading in class. Scholes' writing style reminds me of Elbow, so plowing through his prose seemed a bit arduous but the contents, on second reading, reminds me a bit of Rosenblatt, so I'll read her books next and see if I can find correlations between them. I was hoping that I could link my documents somehow but it looks as if I'll need to copy and paste them; will investigate to see if there is an easier way. I like that I can post photos and film--but am mystified why text documents are excluded.

Allowing myself to begin

Reading for comps--even beginning to read for them--is an intricate process. I have most of the books on the list, but some of the articles and a few of the books are not yet in my possession. Am I waiting until everything is assembled? No--but I envy those organized souls who keep notebooks for each class they attend, and could find their syllabi for any given course in a matter of minutes, not days. Were I to do this over, knowing what I'll need to do to finish this part of my work, I would have meticulously gathered all my readings and notes in a series of labeled notebooks stored safely away.