Flynn

Getting Ready to Read

In high school, I had an even number of male and female teachers and there were obvious differences when it came to how the students were treated. I think that when the male teachers were more involved and around did extra things along with the school, they would favor the male students. When it came to the women teachers, there was obvious favoritism for the female students, especially because a lot of the time the female students would behave in the class room a lot more than the male students did. I think that one cannot generalize whether or not female and male teachers favor a certain sex more; instead, I think it more relies on the personality of the teacher.

Summary

Flynn's article focuses mostly on the importance of women and how their composition's differ from that of males. The question majorly focused on throughout the article is, "Do males and female's compose differently?" Flynn writes her article in a way to inform women of their places in writing and also in a way that men will not feel a direct connection but be able to identify that a relationship is being formed between the females reading the article. Also, Flynn looks into the writings of students and focuses on what the writings are about. She claims that women tend to write based on the bond and relationship that they have with their mothers, while males are more focused on not sounding feminine and instead making sure that they have a masculine voice instead.

Synthesis

Flynns article was easy to relate to several of the other authors that have been discussed in class so far. The first of the authors being Wysocki, because both discussed the importance of women. Another author that put a primary focus on women was Bernhardt. Both Bernhardt and Flynn focused on the study of women from other students. Finally, the last author that I connected back to Flynn was Malcolm X. Malcolm X made a big point of the African American's not having a voice which was the case with the women in Flynn's article (at least not as big of a voice as they should).

Dialectical Notebook

Response	Quotation
What I got out of this quote was that the construction of the sentences was just as important as what the sentences were saying.	“Powerfully present in the work of composition researchers and theorists is the ideal of a committed teacher concerned about the growth and maturity of her students who provides feedback on ungraded drafts, reads journals, and attempts to tease out meaning from the seeming incoherence of student language.” (156)
I feel like this goes without saying. When you see boys and girls playing at a young age, it is apparent that they are going to play in different ways. There is a dominance of males over women, it is how its always been and I am okay with this fact. There are reasons this is the case.	“Feminist research theory emphasize that males and females differ in their developmental processes and in their interactions with others. They emphasize, as well, that these differences are a result of an imbalance in the social order, of the dominance of men over women.” (157)
Though men have a sort of dominance in life, I don’t think that this should be judged against women. I feel that in the work place, it is not fair that men are paid more than a woman with the same job is.	“Men become the standard against which woman are judged.” (157)
I feel that when a girl has a good relationship with her mother than there are better chances that she will be on a “better” path in life, I never did think to put this into perspective with writing however.	“Girls’ identification processes, then, are more continuously embedded in and mediated by their ongoing relationship with their mother.” (158)

QD3

In the past, it is no secret that women were treated poorly. What women have to say has never been as important as what men do. In the past, the thoughts of very intelligent women have not been given a chance just because of their gender. A lot of the struggle has been making women equal to men. Instead, minorities have been made a topic and an importance. Though women are not a minority, in certain jobs and certain places in the world, they are because of the different customs.

My Thoughts

I found the article to be interesting. I like seeing the thoughts of authors on something that I do not know a lot about. I do not necessarily find the topic to be very interesting however. I feel that there are so many differences between males and females so there are going to be obvious differences in how they compose. Women find importance in certain areas in life than males do. There is no right or wrong; yet, I feel that how this article was written it was almost calling out males. I know most of it were informative but I still feel that there was a bit of prejudice in the article.