English @ SUNY Geneseo | Amanda Romeo | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/batmandz/activity/ Activity feed for Amanda Romeo. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4a4ea2a4947e72903582f59a3ba8cdad Amanda Romeo wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=760 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:35:40 -0500 In Interdisciplinarity, Joe Moran discusses the importance of literature to history as a discipline and its development as science.  New Historicism is a shift in the way historians look at history.  Marxism is a […]

]]> b2c4d854e9ac202c4c6c0407310dd190 Amanda Romeo wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=458 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 01:17:47 -0500 It is no secret that a lot of the facts presented in D’Agata’s About A Mountain are inaccurate.  Contrary to Lauren Slater, John D’Agata is not lying in order to manipulate the truth.  He isn’t lying about things […]

]]> 85285b1c872788a707c0911cd04c0d63 Amanda Romeo wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=402 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 02:14:01 -0500 Memory is complex.  Just like there are many different sub-genres of nonfiction, there are also many different types of memory.  We make an association between memory and fact.  We often expect that when we ask a […]

]]> a7cbb3bc689f2fd1590c20cef4347638 Amanda Romeo wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=318 Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:11:13 -0500 In an interview I recently read, Ross McElwee briefly discusses the possibility of making his documentary, Sheman’s March, into a fiction film and/or a fictional cable series. Some interesting points were made […]

]]> 9f0f0f40eabc9f149cc51180856b726b Amanda Romeo commented on the post, Subjectivity v. Objectivity (2015), on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/subjectivity-v-objectivity-2015/#comment-137 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:15:33 -0500 I agree with a lot of the points you make, especially towards the end. I think probably all writing has to be subjective to a point but it’s more about the intent.

]]> 0301425f103467e5b5a955016127080f Amanda Romeo commented on the post, Be Careful of What You Say, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/01/be-careful-of-what-you-say/#comment-130 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:08:26 -0500 Who do you think Sarah Koenig sold out?

]]> 810d29a39125dd16c867b4a66064fc87 Amanda Romeo commented on the post, Speaking to the Truth, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/speaking-to-the-truth/#comment-124 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:03:00 -0500 I actually disagree with the idea that sarcasm can’t be used in written text. I think it can most definitely be found in written works, and when it it, it really says a lot about the skills of both the reader and […]

]]> c0110a45995b1a57498c14c3da4c5d9d Amanda Romeo wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=187 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:32:58 -0500 The first thing I thought upon writing this blog post was: “How can I write about something I know so little about?”

And by that, I mean how can I write about a recent case. (Not the Serial case).  The case of […]

]]> 680680c704e6366b517045b2364a3cfa Amanda Romeo joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4087/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:07:48 -0500 0 9324484e1d8401270ce2889add816eae Amanda Romeo wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=98 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:39:39 -0500 re·port  (rəˈpôrt) verb

1.give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, done, or investigated.
“the representative reported a decline in milk and meat production”
synonyms: […]

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