Course Schedule
The following schedule offers a provisional plan for all work throughout the semester. We may revise it as needed. PDF readings are available for download in Canvas (under Files).
1.Week of Sept. 14-20
Mo.14 Invitations
Syllabus and schedule
Introductions
Lunsford, "The Nature of Composition Studies" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Derrida, selections from Of Hospitality (in class) (PDF Canvas-Files)
Burke, "Unending Conversation"/Parlor selection from The Philosophy of Literary Form (1941) (in class) (PDF Canvas-Files)
CIP Codes 23.1303 and 23.1304 for definitions
Brooke Notes setup and example
2.Week of Sept. 21-27
Mo.21 Disciplinary Footing
Guest: Doug Baker
Phelps, "The Domain of Composition" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Janice Lauer, "Composition Studies: Dappled Discipline" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Vealey and Rivers, "Dappled Discipline at Thirty: An Interview with Janice M. Lauer" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Adler-Kassner and Wardle, Intro to Naming What We Know
Matrix Setup
3.Week of Sept. 28-Oct. 4
Mo.28 Threshold Concepts
Guests: Cheryl Cassidy, Cathy Fleischer
Meyer and Land, "Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Adler-Kassner, Majewski, and Koshnick, "The Value of Troublesome Knowledge: Transfer and Threshold Concepts in Writing and History"
Wilkinson, "The Problem with Threshold Concepts"
Adler-Kassner and Wardle, Naming What We Know (selections)
4.Week of Oct. 5-11
Mo.5 Library I
Guest: John Dunn
Johnson, "Skim and Plunge"
Sturgeon, "Brooklyn Author Recreates Borges' Library of Babel is Infinite Website"
Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Borges, "The Library of Babel" (1941) (PDF Canvas-Files)
Popova, "Umberto Eco's Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones"
Zotero
Feedly
Rhetsy and Rhetsy: Under the Hood
Adler-Kassner and Wardle, Naming What We Know (selections)
Sa.10 WIDE-EMU Conference at Michigan State
5.Week of Oct. 12-18
Mo.12 Methods and Methodologies
Guest: Bernie Miller
Guest: Jen Clary-Lemon, U Winnipeg (via Skype), "Methods and Methodologies"
Clary-Lemon, "Archival Research Processes: A Case for Material Methods" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Bazerman, "The Problem of Writing Knowledge" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Mueller, "Grasping Rhetoric and Composition by Its Long Tail: What Graphs Can Tell Us about the Field's Changing Shape" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design (TOC only)
Lauer and Asher, Composition Research: Empirical Designs (TOC only)
Phelps, "Outcomes Questions for CCR Students"
(PDF Canvas-Files)
Keywords selections survey
6.Week of Oct. 19-25
Mo.19 Keywords
Guest: Steven Krause
Google Motion Chart - Keywords (in class)
Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, selections from "Introduction" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Heilker and Vandenberg, Keywords in Writing Studies, Introduction and Silence, Literacy, Identity, Discourse, and Community
Claire Lauer, "Contending with Terms: 'Multimodal' and 'Multimedia' in the Academic and Public Spheres" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Matrix Project Check-in (installment for response)
7.Week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1
Mo.26 Rhetoric
Guest: Ann Blakeslee
Herrick, "An Overview of Rhetoric," 1-30, (PDF Canvas-Files)
Watch Clemson Univ., "In Defense of Rhetoric"
Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms ("The Divisions of Rhetoric," "The Terms by Type," and "Some Important Dates") (PDF Canvas-Files)
Heilker and Vandenberg, Keywords in Writing Studies, Other, Ecology, Queer, Civic/Public, Contact Zone
8.Week of Nov. 2-8
Mo.2 Library II: Journals
Guest: Steve Benninghoff
McNabb, "Making the Gesture: Graduate Student Submissions and the Expectations of Journal Referees," (PDF Canvas-Files)
Explore at least three journals listed on Writing@EMU: Links and Resources. Look into the journal's statement of purpose, editor and editorial board, frequency of publication, format (print, electronic, or both), style and formatting guidelines, and audience; Read one self-selected article and write Brooke Notes from a journal of your choosing.
9.Week of Nov. 9-15
Mo.9 Resources
Guest: Chalice Randazzo
Ridolfo, Rhet Map
Master's Degree Consortium of Writing Studies Specialists
Dunn and Mueller, "Report on the 2012 Survey of Programs" (PDF Canvas-Files)
Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition
10.Week of Nov. 16-22
Mo.16 Matrix Half-drafts
WRTG500 Curriculum Survey
(in class)
11.Week of Nov. 23-29
Mo.23
No class (WIDE-EMU instead)
12.Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6
Mo.30 Threshold Concepts and Keywords Revisited
13.Week of Dec. 7-13
Mo.7 Matrix Presentations
14.Week of Dec. 14-20
Mo.14 To Be Continued...
Due: Portfolio
Contact Information
Derek N. Mueller, PhDAssociate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
Director of Composition
Department of English
Virginia Tech
Office: 315 Shanks Hall
Spring 2020 Office Hours: T, 12-3
Phone: +1-734-985-0485
dmueller@vt.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/