t-8.28.07

Introduction

• By August 30, 2007 at 5pm, select three choices for the Teacher-for-a-Day Assignment

t-9.05.07

Rhetoric and/or Composition

• Read Enculturation 5.1 Articles
  • Coleman & Goodman
  • Ratcliffe
  • Farris
  • Crowley
  • Jarrett
• Read Enculturation 5.2 Articles
  • Peters
  • Metzger
  • Atwill
  • Claycomb & Riedner
  • Casteel
• Respond to instructor's introductory email

t-9.12.07

The Scottish Common Sense Realists

• Read Horner "The Roots of Modern Writing Instruction" [Rhetoric Review, 8.2]
• Read Blair pp. 23-47, 66-87 [Rhet]
• Read Whately pp. 273-275, 279-302, 388-396 [Rhet]
• Submit PAB #1 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

t-9.19.07

The Realists & Their Influence

• Read Campbell pp. 139-141, 145-150, 172-197, 205-226 [Rhet]
• Read Berlin [WI], Chapters 1-3 (pp.1-34)
• Submit the Proposal to the instructor as an Word document email attachment by the beginning of class

t-9.26.07

Early Composition Pedagogy

• Read Brereton
  • "Introduction" pp. 3-25
  • Chapter 2: pp. 26-57, 127-131
  • Chapter 3: pp. 132-157
  • Chapter 5: pp. 313-316, 320-353
• Submit PAB #2 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

t-10.02.07

Responses to Harvard
& Giving Conference Presentations

• Read Buck pp. 241-251 [Origins]
• Read Scott "What the West Wants in Prepatory School" [School Review 17.1]
• Read Berlin [WI], Chapters 4-8 (pp. 35-92)
• Submit PAB #3 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

t-10.09.07

Fall Break–No class

t-10.16.07

Roundtable Presentations

• Prepare Roundtable Presentations
• PhD: Submit Conference Paper

t-10.23.07

Return to the Classics

• Read Aristotle from The Rhetoric [BB]
• Read Cicero from De Oratore [BB]
• Read Bazerman & Russell "The Rhetorical Tradition and Specialized Discourses" [BB]
• Read Lauer "Heuristics and Composition" [College Composition and Communication, 21.4]
• Read Kinneavy "Translating Theory into Practice in Teaching Composition" [BB]
• Submit PAB #4 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class
• Note  Today is the last day to drop classes

t-10.30.07

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]
• Submit PAB #5 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

t-11.06.07

Postmodern Rhetorics

• Read Lyotard, Chapters 4-9 in The Postmodern Condition [BB]
• Read Deleuze & Guattari "The Civilized Capitalist Machine" & "Oedipus at Last" [BB]
• Read Faigley, "Introduction" [BB]
• Read Rickert, "'Hands Up, You're Free'" [BB]
• Submit Pedagogical Analysis

t-11.13.07

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 Bousquet "Composition as Management Science" [BB]
• Read Crowley, "Composition's Ethic of Service" [BB]

t-11.20.07

Race and Ethnicity

• Read Kaplan "Cultural Thought Patterns..." [BB]
• Read Kubota and Lehner "Towards a Critical Contrastive Rhetoric" [JSLW 13.1]
• Read Crawford "The Multiple Dimension of Nubian/Egyptian Rhetoric" [BB]
• Read Pennell "Implementing Students' Right to Their Own Language" [BB]
• Read CCCC's Statement on Student's Right to their Own Language [BB]

t-11.27.07

Gender

• Read Ritchie and Boardman "Feminism in Composition" [College Composition and Communication, 50.4]
• Read Lunsford "Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Politics of Textual Ownership" [College English, 61.5]
• Read Butler "Beside Oneself" [BB]
• Read Kopelson "Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning" [College Composition and Communication, 55.1]

t-12.4.07

Digital & Visual Rhetoric

• Read Selber "Rhetorical Literacy" [BB]
• Read DeVoss & Porter "Why Napster Matters to Writing" [Computers and Composition 23.2]
• Read Buchanan "Rhetoric, Humanism, and Design" [BB]
• Read Wysocki "with eyes that think..." [BB]

t-12.11.07

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