Villanueva

Before You read:
I have felt like an outsider when I first came to college. I didn't know anyone or anything about them. My roommate and I started to become close when we realized that we liked same things and had mostly the same beliefs. It took some time until I started to not feel like an outsider anymore.

Summary:
In his article "Memoria us a Friend of Ours: On the Discourses of Color" Villaneuva talks about  the concept of memoria, the inclusion of memory and past experiences in Western classical rhetoric. He talks about how memoria fits into the discourse of writing, supplementing the traditional Greek notions of pathos, logos, and ethos, rhetorical devices used to convey emotion, logic, and credibility, respectively. 

Synthesis:
This article relates with Hooks article because they both talks about race and ethnicity. I can also connect Villanueva with Swales because they both talk about discourse communities and how memories fit into discourse communities. Wardle also relates to Villanueva because they both talk about identity and belonging.

AE:
3. The assimilation myth is that when you have your own culture, but are forced to forget about it  and the heritage in order to fit into the other culture.

Thoughts:
This was a very different type of reading and I did not like it very much. I thought that it was very confusing and didn't understand it at first. When I was finished reading it, I had to go over the parts that I didn't understand. Once I read it over a few times I began to understand what the author was trying to get across. I did not like the organization of it and was hard to understand the point he was trying to get across.

Response	Quote
I like this quote because it shows how memoria is useful in our writing and scholarly work.	“Memoria calls and pushes us forward. Memoria is a friend of ours. We must invite her into our classrooms and into our scholarship”.”
This is a great quote that explains how it is important to have a memory of the past.	“And I'd say the need to reclaim and retain the memory of the imperial lords, those who have forcibly changed the identities of people of color through colonization.”
Academic discourse is important and can be very influential.	“Academic discourse is cognitively powerful!”
Some narratives that you read can spark a memory and tie into your own personal experiences.	“The narratives of people of color jog our memories as a collective in a scattered world and within an ideology that praises individualism.”
I liked how he fits Greek mythology into the discourse of writing.	"Memoria was the mother of the muses, the most important of the rhetorical offices."
I liked this quote because it shows how personal narratives help with academics.	“And I am in a wheatfield, attempting to pass on a memory as I attempt to gather one.”