Graduate Exam Schedule & Readings Spring 2018

Week 1

Rose and Little, “A Home of Our Own”; 

Yancey, “Writing in the 21^st Century”
Young and Sullivan, “Why Write? A Reconsideration” 

Supplemental Texts McClish/Werry draft, "The Undergraduate Major in Independent Rhetoric & Writing Studies Departments"

Werry, Overview of RWS Writing Program

See also Everett and Hanganu-Bresch, A Minefield of Dreams: Triumphs and Travails of Independent Writing Programs,
https://wac.colostate.edu/books/minefield/.  See especially Everett and Hanganu-Bresch, “Toward a Schema of Independent Writing
Programs,” and Hanganu-Bresch, “Quo Vadis, Independent Writing Programs? Writing About Writing and Rhetorical Education”

Week 2

Ong, “Psychodynamics of Orality”

Havelock, "The Coming Of Literate Communication"

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

Week 3

Roberts-Miller article “Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric”
Chris's Synthesis of Roberts-Miller's arguments about Characteristics of Demagoguery (Word document)

Week 4

Roberts Miller's book on demagoguery

A classic of demagoguery, George Wallace,'s inaugural speech as governor of Alabama  

Chris's Synthesis of Roberts-Miller's arguments about Characteristics of Demagoguery (Word document) 

Bruce McComiskey, "Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition"

Week 5 

Thonney on Transfer and Academic Writing
Selzer, "The Composing Processes of an Engineer"

Anson and Forsberg, “Moving Beyond the Academic Community: Transitional Stages in Professional Writing”  

Freedman and Adam, "Learning to Write Professionally: 'Situated Leanring' and the Transition from University to Professional Discourse" 

Week 6 

Brent, “Transfer, Transformation, and Rhetorical Knowledge: Insights from Transfer Theory” 

Bay, "Networking Pedagogies For Professional Writing Students" 

McKiernan, "Professional Writing Education: Past Influences and Future Directions"

[For possible use in exam prep: Dias et al. “Virtual Realities: Transitions from University to Workplace Writing"

Dias et al. "Contexts for Writing: University and Work Compared"]

Week 7 

Maurice Charland, "Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Quebecois" 

Glen McClish, “The Instrumental and Constitutive Rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass,” 

Sample short texts for analysis: Landrieu and Davidson (we will use the work of Charland and McClish as lenses to analyze 

these short texts)
Supplements:  Zagacki, "Constitutive Rhetoric Reconsidered: Constitutive Paradoxes in G. W. Bush’s Iraq War Speeches" 

David W. Seitz and Amanda Berardi Tennant “Constitutive Rhetoric in the Age of Neoliberalism”

Week 8 

Black, Edwin. “The Second Persona.” 

Philip Wander, “The third persona: An ideological turn in rhetorical theory” [trying to get copy] 

Stephen Lucas, "The Legacy Of Edwin Black."  

Crowley, “Reflections on an argument that won't go away: Or, a Turn of the Ideological Screw

Week 9 

Fahnstock – “Introduction,” “Sentence Architecture,” “Figures of Argument,” “Language of Origin” 

Enos “Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Rhetorical Criticism”

James Jasinski, “The Status of Theory and Method in Rhetorical Criticism” 

Stillar, “The Resources of Rhetorical Theory”

Week 10 

“Where We Are” sections from Composition Studies

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

Hanganu-Bresch “Quo Vadis, Independent Writing Programs? Writing About Writing and Rhetorical Education”

Boyle, “Writing & Rhetoric as Post-human”

ALTERNATIVE/ADDITIONS

Overviews
Palczewski et al, “Rhetoric as Symbolic Action”

Herrick, "An Overview of Rhetoric"

Political Rhetoric
Ornatowski, "The Future is Ours"
Anderson, "Metaphors of Dictatorship and Democracy"

Burke, "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle

Digital Rhetoric/Futures
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)

Argument
Ramage et al., "Why Argument Matters"

Fleming, "Rhetoric & Argumentation"
Graff on Argument Education