Week 1

Shirley Rose and Sherry Little, “A Home of Our Own”

Friend, Christy. (1992). "The Excluded Conflict: The Marginalization of Composition and Rhetoric Studies in Gerald Graff's Professing Literature"

Bartholomae, David. "Composition" (from Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages & Literatures, 3rd edition)

Supplemental Texts (to be skimmed) Werry and McClish, chapter draft, "The Undergraduate Major in Independent Rhetoric & Writing Studies Departments"

Week 2

Ong, “Psychodynamics of Orality”

Young & Sullivan, “Why Write?” 

Havelock, "The Coming Of Literate Communication to Western Culture"

Plato, excerpts from Phaedrus 

Week 3

Fulkerson, "Composition at the Turn of the Twenty First Century"

Tate et al., "What is Composition Pedagogy?"

Ramage et al., "Why Argument Matters"

Fleming, "Rhetoric & Argumentation"

Weeks 4-5
Updating, Questioning, Extending, Complicating and Remixing Fulkerson's Taxonomy.
New developments in Composition that focus on/draw from:

1. Critiques and Responses to Fulkerson
2. Expressivism
3. Critical Pedagogies & Cultural Studies 
4. Literary Approaches to Composition
5. Feminist Approaches to Composition
6. Process Models
7. Collaborative Writing, Print to Digital
8. New Media Pedagogy 
9. Online and Hybrid Writing Instruction
10. Writing Center Pedagogy 
11. Genre Theory 

Week 6

Roberts-Miller “Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric” (a summary of key parts of her argument is available as a handout. 
We can use it to look at this short text by George Wallace)

Roberts-Miller, "Agonism, Wrangling, and John Quincy Adams"  

Crosswhite, "Universalities"

Reviews

A Review of Roberts-Miller's book, one supportive (by Fulkerson) one a little more critical (by Hogan and Tell) and another by Darsey

Diller's review of Crosswhite's 1996 Rhetoric of Reason, and Conley's review of his more recent, Deep Rhetoric.

Week 7

Catch up: go over RM on demagoguery, the reviews of Roberts Miller and Crosswhite we did not have time to complete, and relate these to
two rather new, short, accessible texts by the authors.
Roberts Miller,  "Donald Trump is not a demagogue, but he does engage in demagoguery" (3 pages)

Crosswhite, "Argument & Ethics" (the first 14 pages - can ignore the annotated bibliography)

Thonney, "The Conventions of Academic Discourse"

If we have time, let's start a discussion of new media texts. The Yancey piece is short - Yancey, Writing in the Twenty First Century, 

Week 8

Clark, "The Digital Imperative" 

Responses to Yancey, one and two 

Brooke, New Media (from Tate Collection)
Doug Brent, "Transfer Transformation and Rhetorical Knowledge"

Week 9 

Digital Humanities - Implications for Rhetoric?
Joanna Brooks and Jessica Pressman, “THE DIGITAL SHIFT, THE HUMANITIES, AND SDSU.” White paper presented at the Re:boot Digital Humanities conference, SDSU, May 2014. 

Paul Jay and Gerald Graff, “Fear of Being Useful”; Alan Liu and William G. Thomas, “Humanities in the Digital Age.”  and Matt Gold, "Digital Humanities" (all short texts) 

More on New Media Pedagogies & the Future of Rhet/Comp

Downs and Wardle, "Reimagining he Nature of FYC: Trends in Writing about Writing Pedagogies" 

Dyehouse et al., "Writing in Electronic Environment: A Concept and a Course for the Writing and Rhetoric Major" 

Sunday April 24

10.00 - 11.00 One Hour Question
11.30 - 1.30 Two Hour Question
2.30 One Week Question

Monday May 02

2.30 One Week Question Due