schedule

January

What is rhetoric?

W1: Tuesday, Jan 5: Class introduction. Please read Crowley-Hawhee for homework/ answer homework questions.
W1: Thursday, Jan 7: Read: Roochnik, David. “Is Rhetoric an Art?”. Rhetorica, 12.2 (1994): 127-154, the handout on Kairos and answer the homework questions on the main page.

W2: Tuesday, Jan 12: Read http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1077316.html and http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/10.1/coverweb/wide/kairos4.html
W2: Thursday, Jan 14: Writing/composing observation report assigned. Read: Craig Howe and WIDE NEH Whitepaper.

Please send me questions for Mike McLeod by Sunday (1.17)

W3: Tuesday, Jan 19: Guest Speaker: Michael McLeod. Read Miller, “What’s Practical about Technical Writing?”

Professional Writing, Technical Communication, Writing Research

W3: Thursday, Jan 21: Read: Sun, H.: The triumph of users: Achieving cultural usability goals with user localization. Technical Communication Quarterly 15(4), 457–481 (2006) and Stephen Bernhardt’s “The Shape of Text to Come: The Texture of Print on Screens”

W4: Tuesday, Jan 26: Read: Steven B. Katz. “The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust.”
W4: Thursday, Jan 28: Read: Schaub, Mark. “Rhetorical Studies in America: The Place of Averroës and the Medieval Arab Commentators”. Alif 16 (1996): 233-253.

February

Islamic rhetorics

W5: Tuesday, Feb 2: Writing observations due. Read parts of “What is Arab Islamic Rhetoric? Rethinking the History of Muslim Oratory Art and Homilethics”. International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (2005): 19-38″

W5: Thursday, Feb 4: Wiki project assigned. Read: Craig. Homework: please send homework questions to Jim by Sunday night!

W6: Tuesday, Feb 9: Guest Speaker Collin Craig. Powell, Malea. “Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing”. College Composition and Communication 53.3 (2002): 396-434

American Indian Rhetorics

W6: Thursday, Feb 11: Powell, Malea. “Down by the River, or How Susan La Flesche Picotte Can Teach Us about Alliance as a Practice of Survivance”. College English, 67.1 Special Issue: Rhetorics from/of Color (2004): 38-60

W7: Tuesday, Feb 16: Rhetoric paper assigned. Reading TBA. Guest Speaker: Qwo-Li Driskill.

Activist Rhetorics

W7: Thursday, Feb 18: Read: Cushman, Ellen. “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change”. College Composition and Communication, 47.1 (1996): 7-28

W8: Tuesday, Feb 23: Wiki project due. Read: (response to Cushman) Alkidas, Laurie. “Another Approach to Our Role as Rhetoricians”. College Composition and Communication, 48.1 (1997): 105-107, &
W8: Thursday, Feb 25: Wiki project due. Homework questions due. Read: Villanueva, Victor. “On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism.” CCC 50.4 (1999): 645-661

March

Digital-cultural rhetorics

W9: Tuesday, March 2, Tasaka reading. Guest Speaker: Robyn Tasaka
W9: Thursday, March 4: In-class drafts of rhetoric paper. Read: http://www.danah.org/papers/2009/WhiteFlightDraft3.pdf

W10: Tuesday, March 9: Final presentations
W10: Thursday, March 11: Rhetoric theory paper due. Final presentations

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