Apr
16
Miller
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Miller views the self as a photo of the that person on paper, in the form of text. All the outside factors are effecting the person in the picture. If the environment is hot, the person is sweating, if the environment is cold, they are shiverring. Change of clothes, change of attitude, change in environment, etc. Whether the amount of time was little, there was still a change. This is in contradiction to what Elbow says because Elbow views the text as a reflection of the self. Imagine same person, same clothes, same environment, different hat. The things that change in Elbow’s works are minimal but still existent. Miller is in line with Bazerman and his theory of the spot because they are similar in their argument on “snap shot.” The spot reflects the one moment in time when something was said, ie. the text of an author. Then, a couple days later that opinion may have changed, and the author could write another paper and it could be completely different. This goes in line with Miller and Bazerman but against Elbow who claims that you cannot change completely, just the part of you that is reflected in the text will have shifted.