Course Schedule


Wk1: Composition as a Discipline and Meta-theories of Composition

T 8/26/14 
  • Introduction to Course Concepts and Methods
  • Parker “Where Do English Departments Come From?” (Bb) 

 R 8/28/14 
  • “A Brief History of Rhetoric and Composition” (Bedford Bibliography) (web link) 
  • plus any two (2) of the following for our in-class forum:
    • Berlin “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories” (Bb)
    • Connors “Rhetorical History as a Component of Composition Studies” (Bb)
    • Corbett “Teaching Composition: Where We've Been and Where We're Going” (Bb)
    • Crowley “Let Me Get This Straight” (Bb)
    • Fulkerson “Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” (Bb)
    • Fulkerson “Four Philosophies of Composition” (Bb)
    • George and Trimbur “The Communication Battle …” (Bb)
    • Lauer “Composition Studies: Dappled Discipline” (Bb)

 Book Selections due on Google Drive by F 8/29/14 at 2:00 p.m.

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Wk2: Theories of Invention

T 9/2/14
  • Lauer “Heuristics and Composition” (Bb)
  • Berthoff “The Problem of Problem Solving” (Bb) 
  • Beaugrande “Process of Invention” (Bb) 
  • Lauer “Metatheory of Heuristic Procedures” (Bb) 
  • Young, Becker, Pike “Ch. 5, 6” (excerpts) in Rhetoric, Discovery, Change (Bb) 

 R 9/4/14
  • Emig “Writing as a Mode of Learning” (Bb)
  • Brummett “Three Meanings of Epistemic Rhetoric” (Bb) 
  • LeFevre “Invention as a Social Act” (Bb) 
  • Scott “Epistemic Rhetoric and Criticism: Where Barry Brummett Goes Wrong” (Bb) 
  • Harpine “What Do You Mean, Rhetoric Is Epistemic?” (excerpts) (Bb) 
  • Weekly 1: IC #1 due in class (1 hard copy)

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Wk3: from Modern Argument to Dialectic

T 9/9/14
  • Toulmin “The Layout of Arguments” (Bb)
  • Bizup “The Uses of Toulmin in Composition Studies” (Bb) 
  • Kneupper “Argument: A Social Constructivist Perspective” (Bb) 
  • Liu “Luoji (Logic) in Contemporary Chinese Rhetoric and Composition” (Bb) 

 R 9/11/14
  • Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (excerpts) The New Rhetoric (Bb)
  • Quigley “Rhetoric, Dialectic, and Ideology in Freshman English” (Bb) 
  • and  Dearin “Philosophical Basis of Chaim Perelman's Theory of Rhetoric” (Bb) 
  • or   Condit “Chaim Perelman's Prolegomenon to a New Rhetoric” (Bb) 
  • Weekly 2: IC #2 due in class (1 hard copy)

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 Wk4: from Trivium to Kairos

T 9/16/14

 R 9/18/14
  • Kinneavy “Kairos: A Neglected Concept” (Bb)
  • Welch “Platonic Paradox: Plato's Rhetoric in Contemporary Rhet/Comp Studies” (Bb) 
  • Sheridan et al “Kairos and Multimodal Public Rhetoric” (Bb) 
  • Weekly 3: Exploratory #1 due to G Drive

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 Wk5: Theories of Discourse and Audience

T 9/23/14
  • Moffett “Ch. 1, 2” (excerpts) in Teaching the Universe of Discourse  (Bb)
  • Kinneavy “Basic Aims of Discourse” (Bb) 
  • NCTE “CCCC Workshop Reports” (excerpts) (Bb) 
  • Connors “Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse” (Bb) 

 R 9/25/14
  • Ede and Lunsford “Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked” (Bb)
  • Porter “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community” (Bb) 
  • and  Royster “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own” (Bb) 
  • or   Weisser “Discourse and Authority in Electronic Contact Zones” (Bb) 
  • Weekly 4: IC #3 due in class (1 hard copy)

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 Wk6: from Process to Cognition

T 9/30/14
  • Murray “Finding Your Own Voice” (Bb)
  • Irmscher “Writing as a Way of Learning and Developing” (Bb) 
  • Flower and Hayes “Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” (Bb) 

 R 10/2/14
  • Carter “The Idea of Expertise: Exploration of Cognitive and Social Dimensions” (Bb)
  • Elbow “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment” (Bb) 
  • Olson “Toward a Post-Process Composition” (Bb) 
  • Weekly 5: Exploratory #2 due to G Drive

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 Wk7: Theories of Agency

T 10/7/14
  • Cooper “Rhetorical Agency as Emergent and Enacted” (Bb)
  • Enoch “Becoming Symbol-wise: Kenneth Burke's Pedagogy of Critical Reflection” (Bb)  

 R 10/9/14
  • Flynn “Composing as a Woman” (Bb)
  • and  Logan “'When and Where I Enter': Race, Gender, Composition Studies” (Bb) 
  • or   Ritchie and Boardman “Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption” (Bb) 

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 Wk8: Theory Texts in Progress

T 10/14/14
  • Presentations of Critical Book Analysis (Travis, Netty, Erik, Mandy, Julianna)
  • Mid-term Presentations due in class and to Bb 

 R 10/16/14
  • Presentations of Critical Book Analysis (Charise, Tyreek, Anna, Mackenzie, Joe)
  • Mid-term Presentations due in class and to Bb 

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 Wk9: from Post-structuralism to Multiculturalism

T 10/21/14
  • Crowley “Of Gorgias and Grammatology” (Bb)
  • Hartwell “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar” (Bb) 
  • Trimbur, et al “Counterstatement: Responses to Maxine Hairston” (Bb) 
  • Hairston “Reply to Counterstatement: Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing” (Bb) 

 R 10/23/14
  • Lu “Professing Multiculturalism: The Politics of Style in the Contact Zone” (Bb)
  • Ohmann “Reflections on Class and Language” (Bb) 
  • Alexander and Rhodes “Flattening Effects: Composition's Multicultural Imperative and the Problem of Narrative Coherence” (Bb) 
  • Weekly 6: IC #4 due in class (1 hard copy)
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 Wk10: from Literacy to Community

T 10/28/14
  • Bizzell “Arguing about Literacy” (Bb)
  • Ohmann “Literacy, Technology, and Monopoly Capital” (Bb) 
  • Brandt “Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the 20th Century” (Bb) 

 R 10/30/14
  • Johnson-Eilola “Negative Spaces: From Production to Connection” (Bb)
  • Richardson “'English-Only,' African American Contributions to Standardized Communication Structures, and the Potential for Social Transformation” (Bb) 
  • Weekly 7: Exploratory #3 due to G Drive 

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 Wk11: Theories of Genre

T 11/4/14
  • Miller “Genre as Social Action” (Bb)
  • Cooper “The Ecology of Writing” (Bb) 
  • and  Bruffee “Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind'” (Bb) 
  • or   Trimbur “Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning” (Bb) 

 R 11/6/14

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 Wks 12-13: Theories of Materiality

T 11/11/14
  • no class - Veterans Day Holiday
  • Prospectus for Final Project due to Bb (~2 pp. single-spaced, with sources)

 R 11/13/14
  • Fleckenstein “Somatic Mind in Composition Studies” (Bb)
  • Odell and McGrane “Bridging the Gap: Integrating Visual and Verbal” (Bb) 
  • Bleich “Materiality, Genre, and Language Use” (Bb) 

 T 11/18/14
  • Yancey “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key” (Bb)
  • and  Selfe “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing” (Bb) 
  • or   Dobrin and Weisser “Breaking Ground in Ecocomposition: Exploring Relationships between Discourse and Environment” (Bb)

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 Wks 13-14: Semester Review

R 11/20/14
  • Concept Review 

 T 11/25/14
  • Presentations on Theory Re/Building Projects (Tyreek, Anna, Mackenzie)

 R 11/27/14
  • no class - Thanksgiving Break 

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 Wk15: Presentations

T 12/2/14
  • Presentations on Theory Re/Building Projects (Netty, Erik, Mandy, Julianna)
  • Final Projects and Presentations due in class and to Bb

 R 12/4/14
  • Presentations on Theory Re/Building Projects (Joe, Travis, Charise)
  • Final Projects and Presentations due in class and to Bb

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 Exam Week

T 12/9/14
  • Final Exam pick-up (via Bb e-mail) 12:30 p.m. 

 R 12/11/14
  • Final Exam drop-off (via Bb Assignments) 12:30 p.m.

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