w-8.28.13

Introduction

w-9.4.13

Rhetoric and/or Composition

• Read Covino "Rhetorical Pedagogy" [BB]
• Read Berlin "Rhetoric & Ideology in the Composition Class" [College English, 50.5; 1988]
• Read Farris "Where Rhetoric Meets the Road" [Enculturation 5.1]
• Read Prior et al.'s "Remediating the Canons" [Kairos 11.3] "Introduction" & "Core Text"
• Read two more selections from "Remediating the Canons"
• Respond to instructor's introductory email

w-9.11.13

Return to the Classics

• Read Aristotle from The Rhetoric [BB]
• Read Quintilian selections from Institutio Oratoria, Book II [BB]
• Read Bazerman & Russell "The Rhetorical Tradition and Specialized Discourses" [BB]
• Read Petruzzi "Kairotic Rhetoric in Freire’s Liberatory Pedagogy" [JAC, 21.2]
• Read Holt "Social Media and the 'Perpetual Project' of Ethos Construction" [Young Scholars in Writing, 10]
• Submit Blog Entry #1 on Blogger by the beginning of class

w-9.18.13

The Scottish Common Sense Realists

• Read Campbell pp. 139-141, 145-150, 172-197, 205-226 [Rhet]
• Read Whately pp. 273-275, 279-302, 388-396 [Rhet]
• Read Horner "The Roots of Modern Writing Instruction" [Rhetoric Review, 8.2]
• Submit the Proposal to the instructor as an Word document email attachment by the beginning of class

w-9.25.13

The Realists & Their Influence

• Read Blair pp. 23-47, 66-87 [Rhet]
• Read Johnson "The Arts of Composition and Belle Lettres" [BB]
• Submit Blog Entry #2 on Blogger by the beginning of class

w-10.2.13

Early Composition Pedagogy

• Read Brereton [Origins]
  • "Introduction" pp. 3-25
  • Chapter 2: pp. 26-57, 127-131
  • Chapter 3: pp. 132-157
  • Chapter 5: pp. 313-316, 320-353
• Submit Blog Entry #3 on Blogger by the beginning of class

w-10.9.13

Responses to Harvard
& Giving Conference Presentations

• Read Buck "Recent Tendacies in the Teaching of English" [Origins pp. 241-251]
• Read Lounsbury "Compulsory Composition in Colleges" [Origins pp. 261-286]
• Read Scott "What the West Wants in Prepatory School" [School Review 17.1]
• Read Kirsch "'Suppose a grammar uses invention'" [Rhetoric Soceity Quarterly, 38.3]
• Submit Blog Entry #4 on Blogger by the beginning of class
• Submit informal email proposal to the instructor about concept your team will do for the Teaching Applied Rhetoric Workshop, why it is an important concept to teach, what your team preliminarily plans to do during the workshop, and why

w-10.16.13

Roundtable Presentations

• Prepare Roundtable Presentations
• Submit Conference Paper as an attachment in an email to the instructor.

w-10.23.13

Textbook Rhetoricians

• Read Burke "The Five Key Terms of Dramatism" [BB]
• Read Rogers "Dealing with Breakdowns in Commuication" [BB]
• Read Ede "Is Rogerian Rhetoric Really Rogerian?" [Rhetoric Review, 3.1]
• Read Toulmin "The Layout of Arguments" [BB]
• Read Textbook Selections [BB]
• Submit Blog Entry #5 on Blogger by the beginning of class

w-10.30.13

Postmodern Rhetorics

• Read Lyotard The Postmodern Condition
• Read Rickert, "'Hands Up, You're Free'" [JAC, 21.2]
• Note  Tuesday, November 5, 2013 is the last day to drop classes

w-11.6.13

Institutional Rhetoric

• Read Foucault "The Means of Correct Training" [BB]
• Read Althusser "Ideology and The State" [BB]
• Read Porter et al. "Institutional Critique" [College Composition and Communication, 51.4]
• Read Phelps "Institutional Invention" [BB]
• Teaching Applied Rhetoric Workshop #1: Leslie & Kelly

w-11.13.13

Multilingual Rhetorics

• Read Kaplan "Cultural Thought Patterns..." [Language Learning 16.1-2]
• Read Mao "Rhetorical borderlands" [College Composition and Communication, 56.3]
• Read Crawford "The Multiple Dimension of Nubian/Egyptian Rhetoric" [BB]
• Read Pennell "Implementing Students' Right to Their Own Language" [BB]
• Teaching Applied Rhetoric Workshop #2: Chvonne, Corwin & Beth

w-11.20.13

Gendered Rhetorics

• Read Jones "Writing the Body" [BB]
• Read Bridwell-Bowles "Discourse and Diversity" [College Composition and Communication, 43.3]
• Read Butler "Beside Oneself" [BB]
• Read Kopelson "Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning" [College Composition and Communication, 55.1]

w-11.27.13

Thanksgiving Break: No School

w-12.4.13

Geography & Composition

• Read Soja "History: Geography: Modernity" [BB]
• Read Reynolds "Composition's Imagined Geographies" [College Composition and Communication, 50.1]
• Read Applegarth "Genre, Location, and Mary Austin's Ethos" [Rhetoric Soceity Quarterly, 41.1]
• Submit Article Manuscript on Friday, December 6, 2013 to the instructor as an email attachment by the end of the day.

w-12.11.13

Finals: No Exam; contact the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu or 757.863.4019) if you have any questions or concerns