Graduate Exam Schedule & Readings Spring 2017
Week 1
Rose and Little, “A Home of Our Own”; RWS, Overview of RWS Writing Program;
NCTE Policy Brief, "First-Year Writing: What Good Does it Do?" Yancey, “Writing in the 21st Century”
Supplemental Text McClish/Werry 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"
Week 3
Plato, excerpts from Phaedrus (mainly pages 13-22)
Palczewski et al, “Rhetoric as Symbolic Action”
Henderson, "The Emergence of the Alt-Right in Contemporary American Politics"
Haskins, "Rhetoric between orality and literacy: Cultural memory and performance in Isocrates and Aristotle”
Week 4
Fulkerson, "Composition at the Turn of the Twenty First Century"
Faigley, "Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal"
Herrick, "An Overview of Rhetoric"
Vance, "Social Construction Theory"
Week 5
Roberts-Miller “Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric”
Mendes, "Digital Demagogue: The Critical Candidacy of Donald Trump"
Ornatowski, "The Future is Ours"
Week 6
Roberts Miller, "Rhetoric and Demagoguery" (from Feb 02, 2017 Talk in Denver)
Anderson, "Metaphors of Dictatorship and Democracy"
Garsten, "Persuasion and Deliberation" (Garston endnotes)
Thonney, "The Conventions of Academic Discourse"
Week 7
Wardle and Downes, "Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)envisioning "First-Year Composition" as "Introduction to Writing Studies"
Burke, "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle
Jarratt, "Rhetoric"
Saturday April 22
10.00 ONE HOUR QUESTION SENT TO YOU
11.00 You email your 1 hour answer to me.
Sunday April 23
10.00 TWO HOUR QUESTION SENT TO YOU
12.00 You email your 2 hour answer to me.
1.00 Sunday afternoon ONE WEEK QUESTION SENT TO YOU
Sunday April 30th, 1.00, you email your one week answer to me.
The Emergence of the Alt-Right in Contemporary American Politics
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