As I hear the word moving to authenticity, I wonder if we should raise
Bakhtin's terms:
Authoritative vs. internally persuasive discourses. Isn't the latter
what really makes something "real" to a student?
Rob
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Dr. Robert Irish, Director
Language Across the Curriculum
Applied Science and Engineering
University of Toronto SF B670
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