Intertextual Conversations

Intertextual Conversations (Individual)
Intertextual Conversations (ICs) are one of two "weekly" assignment forms to occur six times over the semester, and I tend to think of them as valuable intellectual work. ICs encourage you to synthesize our readings at various points in the semester. You can think of them as conversations that you are constructing between theorists on certain topics, or between theorists and various topics. They are brief (~3 single-spaced pages) and you'll be able to choose from a set of prompts in writing them. In spite of their brevity, I'll be looking for depth and breadth in your writing—that is, I'll be looking for you to demonstrate a good grasp of the theorist's overarching argument while also noting its nuances and intricacies, which will inevitably surface when you try to hold one theorist's ideas accountable to another's. I will look for evidence that you can weave together already nuanced summaries in order to make a more complex conversation; that you can identify the methodology or organization underlying most of their arguments; that you can forward key terms or concepts important to the conversation you are constructing; and that you can provide and cite salient examples from each text.

IC #1: from Modern Argument to Dialectic
IC #2: Theories of Discourse and Audience
IC #3: from Post-structuralism to Multiculturalism