Course Schedule


Schedule adjusted on 9/8/17 in response to FSU closures for Irma. -Dr. G
 
Wk1: Composition as a Discipline and Meta-theories of Composition

T 8/29/17   Introduction to Course Concepts and Methods
  • “A Brief History of Rhetoric and Composition” (Bedford Bibliography) (web link) 
  • George and Trimbur “The Communication Battle: … the Fourth 'C'” (CL)
  • plus one (1) of the following for our in-class forum:
    • Fulkerson “Four Philosophies of Composition” (CL)
    • Berlin “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories” (CL)
    • Hairston “The Winds of Change” (CL)
    • Lauer “Composition Studies: Dappled Discipline” (CL)
    • Corbett “Teaching Composition: Where We've Been and Where We're Going” (CL)
    • Connors “Rhetorical History as a Component of Composition Studies” (CL)
    • Crowley “Let Me Get This Straight” (CL)

Theory-text Selections due by F 9/1/17 at 5:00 p.m.

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Wk2: Historical Theories of Invention

T 9/5/17
  • Lauer “Heuristics and Composition” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module)
  • Berthoff “The Problem of Problem Solving” (CL) 
  • deBeaugrande “Process of Invention” (CL) 
  • LeFevre “Invention as a Social Act” (CL)
  • Young, Becker, Pike “Ch. 5, 6” (excerpts) in Rhetoric, Discovery, Change (CL) 
  • Crick “Composition as Experience” (CL)
  • Warm-up Assignment (due in hard copy)

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Wk3: No class

T 9/12/17    campus closure due to Hurricane Irma

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 Wk4: from Modern Argument to Dialectic

T 9/19/17
  • Toulmin “The Layout of Arguments” (CL)
  • Kneupper “Argument: A Social Constructivist Perspective” (CL)  
  • Quigley “Rhetoric, Dialectic, and Ideology in Freshman English” (CL)
  • Weisser “Discourse and Authority in Electronic Contact Zones” (CL)
  • Liu “Luoji (Logic) in Contemporary Chinese Rhetoric and Composition” (CL) 

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Wk5: from Trivium to Kairos

T 9/26/17

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Wk6: Theories of Discourse and Audience

T 10/3/17
  • Moffett “Ch. 1, 2” (excerpts) in Teaching the Universe of Discourse  (CL)
  • Kinneavy “Basic Aims of Discourse” (CL) 
  • NCTE “CCCC Workshop Reports, 1971” (excerpts) (CL) 
  • Ede and Lunsford “Audience Addressed/Invoked” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module) 
  • Royster “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own” (CL) 
  • Asante “Afrocentric Communication Theory” (CL)
  • Weekly: Intertextual Conversation #2

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Wk7: from Process to Post-Process

T 10/10/17
  • Murray “Finding Your Own Voice” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module)
  • Irmscher “Writing as a Way of Learning and Developing” (CL) 
  • Flower and Hayes “Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” (CL)  
  • Pierstorff “Response to Flower and Hayes” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module)  
  • Carter “The Idea of Expertise” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module) 
  • and Elbow “Ranking, Evaluating, Liking” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module)  
  • or Olson “Toward a Post-Process Composition” (CL) 
  • Weekly: Exploratory #2 draft in class today, final due to CL by 3:30 p.m. on 10/12/17

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Wk8: Theories of Agency and Ecology [switched with Wk 9 by consensus of the class]

T 10/17/17
  • Logan “When and Where I Enter: Race, Gender, Composition Studies” (CL)
  • Smitherman “CCCC's Struggle for Language Rights” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module)
  • Cooper “The Ecology of Writing” (CL)
  • Enoch “Becoming Symbol-wise: Kenneth Burke's Pedagogy of Critical Reflection” (CL)  
  • and Flynn “Composing as a Woman” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module)  
  • or Ritchie and Boardman “Feminism in Composition” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module)

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Wk9: Theory Texts in Progress [switched with Wk 8 by consensus of the class]

T 10/24/17
  • Presentations of Critical Book Analysis
  • Mid-term Presentations due in class and to CL

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 Wk10: from Post-structuralism to Multiculturalism

T 10/31/17
  • Hartwell “Grammar, Grammars, Teaching of Grammar” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module) 
  • Hairston “Diversity, Ideology, and the Teaching of Writing” (CL)
  • Trimbur, et al “Counterstatement: Responses to Maxine Hairston” (CL) 
  • Hairston “Reply to Counterstatement: Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing” (CL) 
  • Lu “Professing Multiculturalism: Politics of Style in the Contact Zone” (CL)
  • Alexander and Rhodes “Flattening Effects: Composition's Multicultural Imperative” (CL)
  • Weekly: Intertextual Conversation #3  final due to CL by 3:30 p.m. on 11/2/17

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Wk11: from Literacy to Community

T 11/7/17
  • Ohmann “Literacy, Technology, and Monopoly Capital” (CL) 
  • Brandt “Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the 20th Century” (web -- JSTOR or Canvas module)
  • Johnson-Eilola “Negative Spaces: From Production to Connection” (CL)
  • Ramanathan and Atkinson “Individualism, Academic Writing, ESL Writers” (CL)
  • and Keating “Interrogating 'Whiteness,' (De)Constructing 'Race'” (CL)
  • or Richardson “'English-Only,' African American Contributions to Standardized Communication Structures, and the Potential for Social Transformation” (CL) 
  • Weekly: Exploratory #3

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Wk12: Theories of Genre and Social Construction

T 11/14/17
  • Miller “Genre as Social Action” (CL)
  • Berkenkotter and Huckin “Rethinking Genre from a Sociocognitive Perspective” (CL)
  • Devitt “Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptions of an Old Concept” (CL)
  • Delagrange “Visual Arrangement as Inquiry” (web link)
  • Bawarshi “Beyond the Genre Fixation” (CL)
  • Prospectus for Final Project due to Canvas (~2 pp. single-spaced, with sources)

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Wks 13: Theories of Materiality

T 11/21/17  Symposium Style (we'll divvy up readings amongst us, ~4-5 selections each)
  • Fleckenstein “Somatic Mind in Composition Studies” (CL)
  • Odell and McGrane “Bridging the Gap: Integrating Visual and Verbal” (CL) 
  • Helmers “Media, Discourse, and the Public Sphere” (CL)
  • Bleich “Materiality, Genre, and Language Use” (web -- through JSTOR or Canvas module) 
  • Yancey “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key” (CL)
  • Dobrin and Weisser “Breaking Ground in Ecocomposition” (CL)
  • Boyle “Writing and Rhetoric and/as Posthuman Practice” (CL) 
  • Sundvall and Fredlund “The Writing on the Wall ...” (CL) 
  • Selfe “Movement of Air, Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing” (CL)  
  • Selfe “Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution” (CL) 

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    Wk 14: Overflow Discussion and Semester Review

    T 11/28/17
    • final reading TBD (polemical essay in line with your interests/questions/provocations)
    • Concept Review and Final Exam Preparation

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    Wk15: Presentations

    T 12/5/17
    • Presentations on Theory Re/Building Projects (in class)
    • Theory Re/Building Projects and Presentations due in class and to Canvas

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    Exam Week

    T 12/12/17
    • Final Exam pick-up (via Canvas) 12:00 p.m. 

    R 12/14/17
    • Final Exam drop-off (via Canvas) 3:30 p.m.

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