Theories of Written Communication
August 2024 | |
| Mo.26 Wk01 |
Priming Theorein Welcome: introductions, schedule, projects, syllabus Canvas site, Google Folders What Theory Does (and for Whom) Nineties+ #1 in-class |
September 2024 | |
| Mo.2 | Labor Day - No classes |
| Mo.9* Wk02 |
What Haunting Supplies Theory; Introduction to Theory Deck/Microanthology Project *Meet on Zoom from 4-5:15 p.m. (Mueller traveling), with self-paced activity planned for 5:30-6:45 p.m. Read: Eve Tuck & C. Ree, "A Glossary of Haunting," pp. 639-659 (PDF, Canvas, 02-TuckRee-GlossaryofHaunting-2013.pdf) (60) Nineties+ #2 due no later than Mon., 9/9, at 1 p.m. ET |
| Mo.16 Wk03 |
Root Metaphors, Critical Realism, Academic Writing Read: Stephen Pepper, World Hypotheses (1942), pp. 141-150 & 317-348 (PDF, Canvas) (75) Read: Julia Molinari, What Makes Writing Academic (2022), pp. 1-44 (PDF, Canvas) (75) Nineties+ #3 due no later than Mon., 9/16, at 1 p.m. ET |
| Mo.23 Wk04 |
Alternative Discourses; Literacy as Situated and Communitarian Jacqueline Royster, “Academic Discourses or Small Boats on a Big Sea,” AltDis (2002), pp. 23-30 (40) Deborah Brandt, Literacy as Involvement (1990), pp. 1-11 & 13-32 (PDF, Canvas) (60) Beverly Moss, Literacy Across Communities (1994), pp. 1-7 & 147-178 (PDF, Canvas) (60) Nineties+ #4 due no later than Mon., 9/23, at 1 p.m. ET |
| Mo.30 Wk05 |
Intellectual+Ancestral Genealogies |
October 2024 | |
| Mo.7 Wk06 |
Expertise Jenny Rice, “Para-Expertise, Tacit Knowledge, and Writing Problems,” College English (2015), pp. 117-138 (PDF, Canvas) (60) Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (1966), pp. 3-25 (PDF, Canvas) (60) Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects (2007), pp. 1-27 (PDF, Canvas) (60) Nineties+ #6 due no later than Mon., 10/7, at 1 p.m. ET |
| Mo.14 Wk07 |
Rationalism and Argumentation Cynthia Haynes, “Writing Offshore” (2003), in The Homesick Phone Book (2016), pp. 60-106 (PDF, Canvas)(90) Harvey Graff, “Hidden Intellectualism” (2001), pp. 21-36 (PDF, Canvas) (45) Manuel DeLanda, “Extensive Borderlines and Intensive Borderlines” (1998), PDF pp. 18-25 (PDF, Canvas) (20) Nineties+ #7 due no later than Mon., 10/14, at 1 p.m. ET |
| Mo.21 Wk08 |
Writers Develop; Activity Theory (AT) Paul Prior and Jody Shipka’s “Chronotopic Lamination” (2003), pp. 180-238 (PDF, Canvas) (90) Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination (1981), pp. 84-110 (PDF, Canvas) (60) Yrjö Engeström. From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work (2008), pp. 199-233 (PDF, Canvas) (60) Nineties+ #8 due no later than Mon., 10/21, at 1 p.m. ET |
| Mo.28 Wk09 |
Theory Deck-Building Due: TDM Part One by 4 p.m. Bring all six chapters/articles (minimum) you will include in your TDM (preferably as PDFs). |
November 2024 | |
| Mo.4 Wk10 |
How We Write Gloria Anzaldúa, “Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process,” Counterpoints, 1999, Vol. 90, How We Work (1999), pp. 241-261 (PDF, Canvas) (60) Louise Phelps, “Rhythm and Pattern in a Composing Life.” Composition in Four Keys (1985). pp. 114-125. (PDF, Canvas) (60) Nineties+ #9 due no later than Mon., 11/4, at 1 p.m. ET |
| Mo.11 Wk11 |
Theoretical Antecedents - Book Intros and/or First Chapters Book intros or first chapters (Choose one set to read from four options.) J. Logan Smilges’ Queer Silence (U Minnesota P, 2022), pp. 1-34 (PDF, Canvas) Manning, Erin. The Minor Gesture. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. pp. 1-24. (PDF, Canvas) Malhotra, Sheena, and Aimee Carrillo Rowe, eds. Silence, Feminism, Power: Reflections at the Edges of Sound. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. pp. 1-22. (PDF, Canvas) Debra Hawhee, A Sense of Urgency (U Chicago P, 2023), pp. 1-19. (PDF, Canvas) Fukushima, Annie Isabel. Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the US. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. pp. 97-116. (PDF, Canvas) Vivian, Bradford. “Witnessing Time: Rhetorical Form, Public Culture, and Popular Historical Education.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 44, no. 3 (May 27, 2014): 204–19. (PDF, Canvas) Jennifer LeMesurier, Inscrutable Eating (Ohio State UP, 2023), pp. xi-xv & 1-21. (PDF, Canvas) Shuvro, Katie, Julia, Jenna Ahmed, Sara. "Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 12.4, 2006, pp. 543-574. (PDF, Canvas) Oum, Young Rae. “Authenticity and Representation: Cuisines and Identities in Korean-American Diaspora.” Postcolonial Studies 8, no. 1 (2005): 109–25. (PDF, Canvas) Eric Detweiler, Responsible Pedagogy (Penn State UP, 2022), pp. 1-27. (PDF, Canvas) Molly, Seyda, Gideon, John, Casey, Abigail Arendt, Hannah. “Reflections on Little Rock.” Dissent (Winter 1959): 45-56. (PDF, Canvas) Ellison, Ralph. “Leadership from the Periphery.” Who Speaks for the Negro? Ed, Robert Penn Warren, pp. 324–354. New Haven: Yale UP, 2014. (PDF, Canvas) Nineties+ #10 due no later than Mon., 11/11, at 1 p.m. ET |
| Mo.18 Wk12 |
Theoretical Antecedents - Dissertation Intros and/or First Chapters Dissertation intros or first chapters (Choose one set to read from four options.) Walwema, Josephine. Tactile Interfaces: Epistemic Techne in Information Design (2011, Clemson), PDF pp. 3-31. (PDF, Canvas) Shuvro, Abigail, Casey, Gideon Buchanan, Richard. “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking.” Design Issues. 8.2 (Spring 1992), pp. 5-21. (PDF, Canvas) Ong, Walter. "Writing Restructures Consciousness," from Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge, 1982. pp. 77-112. (PDF, Canvas) Sackey, Donnie. The Curious Case of the Asian Carp: Spatial Performances and the Making of an Invasive Species (2013, MSU), PDF pp. 3-20. Mol, Annemarie. (1999). Ontological politics: A word and some questions, in J. Law and J. Hassard (Eds.), Actor Network Theory and After. Malden, MA: Blackwell and the Sociological Review. pp. 74-89. Callon, Michael, and Law, John. (1982). On interests and their transformation: Enrolment and counter-enrolment. Social Studies of Science, 12(4), 615- 625. Faris, Michael. Rhetoric, Social Media, and Privacy (2012, Penn State) PDF pp. iii-39. Cooper, Marilyn M. “The Ecology of Writing.” College English 48.4 (1986): 364-375. Wysocki, Anne, and Johndan Johnson Eilola. “Blinded by the Letter: Why Are We Using Literacy as a Metaphor for Everything Else?” Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies. Eds. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan: Utah State UP, 1999. 349-368. Carr, Allison. Negative Space: Toward an Epistemology of Failure (2014, Cincinnati) PDF pp. 5-20. Katie, Molly, Seyda, John, Julia, Jenna Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary. New York: Penguin, 1989. pp. 205-238. (PDF, Canvas) Stewart, Kathleen. (2010) ‘Worlding Refrains’ in M. Gregg & G. Seigworth (eds) (2010) The Affect Theory Reader. London: Duke University Press, pp. 339-53. Nineties+ #11 due no later than Mon., 11/18, at 1 p.m. ET Due (adjusted): TDM Part Two by Wednesday, 11/20, 11:59 p.m. |
| Mo.25 | Thanksgiving break - no classes |
December 2024 | |
| Mo.2 Wk13 |
Presentations Due: Theory Deck/Microanthology (Wednesday, 12/4, by 11:59 p.m. ET in Google Folder) |
| Mo.9 Wk14 |
Due: Reflection (11:59 p.m. ET in Google Folder) |
Contact Information
Derek MuellerProfessor of Rhetoric and Writing
Department of English, Virginia Tech
Office: 315 Shanks Hall
Fall 2024 Office Hours: F, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET, and other times by appt.
dmueller@vt.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/