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” (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)
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 March 02: Origins, Influences and Connections
Rose and 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"
Clark, "The Digital Imperative: Making the Case for a 21st-Century Pedagogy"
Douglas Hesse, “The Place of Creative Writing in Composition Studies.”
Balhizer and McCleod, “The Undergraduate Writing Major: What Is It? What Should It Be?
WEEK 6 March 08 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 7 March 15: Issues in Academic and Workplace Writing Continued
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 8 March 22
Exam practice and strategy
Week 9 Spring Break
Week 10: April 06
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 13
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)
FINAL TEXTS TO SUPPLEMENT "TRANSITIONS" PROJECT AND YANCEY/DIGITAL LITERACY PROJECT
Transitions:
Yancey & Digital Literacy - extensions, illustrations, complications and challanges
- Bay, "Networking Pedagogies For Professional Writing Students"
- Clark, "The Digital Imperative: Making the Case for a 21st-Century Pedagogy"
- Mark Pegrum, "Modified, multiplied and (re-)mixed: Social media and digital literacies"
- Jaron Lanier, “Fixing the Digital Economy.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/fixing-the-digital-economy.html
- Taylor, "Open Systems and Glass Ceilings" http://www.nationofchange.org/open-systems-and-glass-ceilings-1397223100
- Eran Fisher, “'Technology as Ideology' in Neoliberal Times”
- 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).
- Steve Kolowich, "What Students Don't Know"
- Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
- Thompson,“Public Thinking”;
- Thompson, "The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter"
- 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.
- Rose and 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"
- 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” https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/01/05/essay-new-approach-defend-value-humanities
- Alan Liu and William G. Thomas, “Humanities in the Digital Age.”
Reports & Supplementary Texts Related to Yancey
Exam Dates & Times:
April 29 at 5.00 exam part 1 (1 hour)
April 29 at 7.00 exam part 2 (2 hours)
April 29 at 9.30 pm exam part 3 (1 week)
Starts evening April 29, ends May 06
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