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Writing
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Course Policies and
Syllabus
Texts | Requirements
| Reading Schedule | Projects
| Texts: |
| Bizzel, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg. Eds. The
Rhetorical Tradition. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives. Berkeley: Univ. of
Calif. Press, 1969.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum Press,
1975.
Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject. Upper Saddle River, New
Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.
Lindeman, Erika. Ed. An Introduction to Composition Studies.
New York: Oxford Press, 1991.
North, Stephen. The Making of Knowledge in Composition Studies.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boynton/Cook, 1987.
Olson, Gary & Sidney I. Dobrin. Eds. Composition Theory for the
Postmodern Classroom. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
Veen, Jeffrey. HotWired Style. Wired Books, Inc., 1997
White, Hayden. Tropics of Discourse. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ.
Press, 1978.
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| Requirements: |
All projects have
Web-based components
& will be published on the WebClick on the individual
projects to see the full
description of the assignment
It's assumed that
participation will be
active, thoughtful, &
uproarious |
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| Schedule |
Date |
Reading/Activities |
Presentor/Topics/Reviews |
| January 12 |
Organizational Meeting; Web Overview
(HTML) |
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| January 19 |
- Lunsford, "The Nature of Composition Studies" (Intro to Comp
Studies)
- Gage, "On 'Rhetoric' and 'Composition'" (Intro to Comp Studies)
- Schuster, "Theory and Practice"
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| January 26 |
- essays from Intro to Comp Studies (Scott,
Bridwell-Bowles)
- North, The Making of Knowledge (1-17)
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| February 2 |
- North, 18-132
- Ede, "Teaching Writing" (in Intro to Comp Studies)
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| February 9 |
- North, pp. 317-60
- Petraglia, "Interrupting the Conversation" pp. 313-28 (in Comp
Theory)
Discussion Question
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Presenters: Anita
Beaman, Brian Langford |
| February 16 |
- Plato, Gorgias
- Dasenbrock, "Becoming Aware of the Myth of Presence" (in Comp
Theory)
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Review: Stanley
Fish, Doing What Comes Naturally (Matt McKinney) |
| February 23 |
- Plato, Phaedrus
- Kent, "Externalism and the Production of Discourse" (in Comp Theory)
Discussion Question
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Presenters: Jula, Christy Shannon Review:
Linda Flower, The Construction of Negotiated Meaning
(Shannon Thomas) |
| March 2 |
- Harris, A Teaching Subject
- Kinneavy, "The Process of Writing" (in Comp Theory)
Discussion Question
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Presenters: Amy Fijalkiewicz, Matt McKinney |
| March 9 |
- Moore and Kleine, "Toward an Ethics" (in Comp Theory)
Discussion Question
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Presenters: Jeff Pietruszynski, Kelly Satterwhite Review: L. Phelps, Composition as a Human Science (Anita Beaman) |
| March 23 |
- A. Kay, "Computers, Networks and Education"
- M. Apple, "The New Technology: Is it Part of the Solution or Part of the
Problem in Education?"
Discussion Question
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Presenters: Wei
Gao, Shannon Thomas Reviews:
G. Landow, Hypertext (Jeff Pietruszynski)
S. Birkerts, Gutenberg Elegies (Christy
Shannon)
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| March 30 |
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T. Roszak, Cult
of Information (Kelly Satterwhite) N.
Postman, Technopoly (Jula) |
| April 6 |
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| April 13 |
- Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (selections)
- Derrida, "Signature, Event, Context" (Rhet. Tradition, 1165-84)
- Borges, "The
Library of Babel"
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Reviews:
G. Kirsch, Women Writing the Academy (Amy Fijalkiewicz)
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| April 20 |
- Continue Discussion of Freire and Borges
- H. White, Tropics of Discourse ("Introduction: Tropology, Discourse,
and the Modes of Human Consciousness," pp. 1-23)
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Reviews:
G. Dillon, Constructing Texts (Brian Langford)
M. Kennedy, Learning to Teach Writing (Wei Gao)
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| April 27 |
- Individual Presentations
- Finish Anthology
- Course Wrap up
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