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Teaching English 110 - Composition
I English 120 - Composition II (Spring 2005) English 275 - Introduction to Writing Studies English 320 - Practical Writing Engineering 320 - Technical Communication English 358 - Intermediate Composition English 357 - English 458/658 - Advanced Writing Workshop English 457- Electronic Communication (Spring 2006) English 755 - Composition Theory English 757 - Composition Studies English 758 - Composition and Rhetoric
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English 758: Rhetoric and CompositionLast taught: Spring 1998 Texts Covino, William A. and Jolliffe, David A, eds. Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. 1845. New York: Norton, 1997. Golden, James L., and Corbett, Edward P. J., eds. The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990. Perkins Gilman, Charlotte. A Nonfiction Reader. Ed. Larry Ceplair. New York: Columbia UP, 1991. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 1792. Ed. Carol Poston. New York: Norton, 1988. Course Description This course will provide a brief overview of the history of rhetoric before focusing more closely on eighteenth-century textbooks, nineteenth-century treatises, and twentieth-century topics. You will be asked to develop 3 short responses to the readings, a biographical sketch of a major figure in twentieth-century rhetoric, and one major term paper. The objectives of the course are:
The course is intended to be relevant to students in both the composition and literature stream: we will examine how rhetoric and poetics were divided into separate disciplines; we will read non-fiction works by authors also well known for their fiction; and we will have the opportunity to examine how some scholars are attempting to repair the fissure between rhetoric and poetics. The course, however, cannot be used to meet a literature elective. Our study of eighteenth-century rhetoric will concentrate on the three major textbooks of that period. We will examine not only how these works fit within the textbook tradition of rhetoric, but also ask how they relate to the rise of the novel, capitalism, industrialism, and science. Our study of nineteenth-century rhetoric will turn to the living tradition of rhetoric–arguments presented for a reading public rather than textbooks for students. This unit will focus on arguments for the rights of women in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. We will examine the influence of the eighteenth-century textbooks on these writers, as well as carry forward our examination of the influence of capitalism, industrialism, and science on this specific debate. We won’t have time to look closely at the literature of the nineteenth century, but students may examine the importance of the fiction and its relationship to arguments for the rights of women. With the exception of the week we will devote to rhetoric and cultural studies–the week in which Larry Grossberg will be on campus to discuss cultural studies–students will be able to choose contemporary topics of interest to them. Our primary textbook, Covino and Jolliffe, has several units on contemporary issues.
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Research Recently published "Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs." Into the Blogosphere. Ed. Laura Gurak et al. University of Minnesota, 2004. "The McLuhan Retrieval Reviewed." Kairos 9.1, 2004. In-progress "Changing the Ground of Graduate Education: Wireless Laptops Bring Stability rather than Mobility to Graduate Teaching Assistants." Book chapter. McLuhan for Compositionists. Book project. Other Stuff The annual Regional Studies Lecture, which I have co-ordinated since spring 2001.
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