RWS M.A. Exam Resources Spring 2015
Folder of Texts
Provisional Schedule & Readings
WEEK 1 Feb 02
Thompson,“Public Thinking”;
Young & Sullivan, “Why Write?”
Schmandt-Besserat and Erard, "Origins & Forms of Writing"
Yancey, “Writing in the 21st Century”
WEEK 2 Feb 09
Palczewski et al, “Rhetoric as Symbolic Action”
Jones & Hafner, “Mediated Me”
Plato, excerpts from Phaedrus
Ong, “Psychodynamics of Orality”
Supplemental reading: Jahandarie, “Jack Goody: Writing, Culture, & Cognition”
WEEK 3 Feb 16
Argument, Persuasion & Political Rhetoric
Hogan, “Persuasion in the Rhetorical Tradition”
Palczewski et al, “Argument”
Roberts-Miller “Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric”
Ornatowski, “The Future is Ours”
Supplemental reading: Burke, "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle"; Wolfe, "Argumentation Across the Curriculum"
WEEK 4 Feb 23
Alexander & Rhodes, “Flattening Effects: Composition’s Multicultural Imperative & the Problem of Narrative Coherence.”
Fulkerson, "Composition at the Turn of the Twenty First Century"
Hairston, “Diversity, ideology and Teaching Writing”
Supplementary: Wallace, “Unwelcome Stories, Identity Matters, and Strategies for Engaging in Cross Boundary Discourses”
WEEK 5 Feb 25: Questions of Origin and Relationship
Rose and Little, “A Home of Our Own”
Little, “Designing Certificate Programs in Technical Communication”
Henze et al., “Disciplinary Identities: Professional Writing, Rhetorical Studies, and Rethinking ‘English’”
Melancon and Henschel, "Current State of U.S. Undergraduate Degree Programs in Technical Communication"
Ornatowski, "Technical Communication and Rhetoric"
Supplementary: Killingsworth, "Developing Programs in Technical Communication: A Pragmatic View," and Parker, “Where Do English Departments Come From?”
WEEK 5 March 04: Issues in Academic and Workplace Writing
Anson and Forsberg, “Moving Beyond the Academic Community: Transitional Stages in Professional Writing”
Dias et al. “Virtual Realities: Transitions from University to Workplace Writing"
Dias et al. "Contexts for Writing: University and Work Compared"
Freedman and Adam, "Learning to write professionally"
Bay, "Networking Pedagogies For Professional Writing Students"
WEEK 6 March 11 Issues in Academic and Workplace Writing Continued
WEEK 7 March 18 Issue in Technical Communication
Katz, "An Ethic of Expediency"
Emerson, "Guns, Butter & Ballots"
Week 8 March 25
Exam practice and stategy
Week 9 Spring Break
Week 10: April 08
Yancey, "Writing in the 21st Century"
Yancey, Re-designing Graduate Education in Composition and Rhetoric: The Use of Remix as Concept, Material, and Method
J. Elizabeth Clark, "The Digital Imperative: Making the Case for a 21st-Century Pedagogy"
Week 11: April 15
WIDE (Writing in Digital Environments) paper (skim results and look for contrast with Yancey/Clark).
Does Digital Media Make Us Bad Writers? Discussion of Stanford Writing project. http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/does-digital-media-make-us-bad-writers
Hindman, "What is the Online Public Sphere Good for?" (pages 12-18)
Hargittai, "Digital Natives? Variation in Internet Skills" (just read the abstract, page 1).
Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Thompson, "The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter"
Plato, Phaedrus (pages 20-22)
SUPPLEMENTAL
Scholz, "Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0" (Just read last few pages, from "The Web 2.0 Ideology, the Power of Naming" on)
Interview with Julia Angwin about surveillance and commercial use of data.
McNely, Brian J. “Sociotechnical Notemaking: Short-Form to Long-Form Writing Practices” “In this article, I reframe recent public debates about emergent
literacy practices by situating the movement of short-form to long-form writing work within the disciplinary milieu of Rhetoric and Composition.” Present Tense 2.1, 2011.
Issues to Consider When Implementing Digital and Media Literacy Programs. Knight Commission on Democracy Report (just first few pages)
Week 12: April 22
Fulkerson, "Composition at the Turn of the Twenty First Century"
Downs, Douglas, and Elizabeth Wardle. “Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning ‘First-Year Composition’ as ‘Introduction to Writing Studies.’
(see this wikipedia entry for info on the "Writing about Writing" movement.)
Dyehouse et al., "Writing in Electronic Environments”
McCleod – on the Writing Major
Kastman Breuch, “Post-Process "Pedagogy": A Philosophical Exercise.” (for a quick overview (see this page)
Kristine Johnson, "Beyond Standards: Disciplinary and National Perspectives on Habits of Mind"
Week 13: April 29
Review & Test Prep
Week 14: May 06
Exam Notes:
Exam Part 1 (2 hours) April 29
Exam part 2 (1 hour) April 30
Exam Part 3 (1 week) Starts evening April 29, ends May 06
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