Course Calendar
Week 1—Introduction
to Rhetoric
Tuesday, August 24 Introductions
Thursday,
August 26 Read Corbett and Connors, "A Brief Explanation" and
Kennedy, "A
Hoot in the Dark"
Week
2—Plato
and the Sophists
Tuesday, August 31 Read Katula, "Sophists and Rhetorical Consciousness,"
Gorgias, "Encomium
to Helen," Isocrates, "Against the Sophists" and "Antidosis"
Thursday,
September 2 Read Plato, Phaedrus
Week
3—Aristotelian
Traditions
Tuesday, September 7 Read selections from Aristotle, On Rhetoric
and review Lanham, "Divisions
of Rhetoric"
Thursday,
September 9 Read selections from Cicero, De Inventione and continuew
reviewing Lanham
Week
4—Invention
and Kairos
Tuesday, September 14 Read Miller, "The Aristotelian Topos" and
McKeon, "The
Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age"
Thursday,
September 16 Read Kinneavy, "Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical
Theory" and Hawhee, "Kairotic Encounters"
Week 5--Papers
Tuesday, September
21 Paper #1 due
Thursday, September
23 Paper #1 due
Week 6—Rhetoric
as Writing
Tuesday, September 28 Read Ong, "Writing Restructures Consciousness" and Emig, "Writing
as a Mode of Learning"
Thursday, September
30 Read Kinneavy, "The Basic Aims of Discourse" and Connors, "The
Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse"
Week 7—Burke and the Rhetorical Situation
Tuesday, October 5 Read Bitzer, "Rhetorical Situation," Consigny, "Rhetoric
and Its Situations," and Burke, "Rhetorical Situation"
Thursday, October
7 NO CLASS-instructor at professional conference
Week 8—New
Models
Tuesday, October 12 NO CLASS-Fall Break
Thursday, October 14 Read Ehninger, "On Systems of Rhetoric," Young, "Arts,
Crafts, Gifts, Knacks," and Grassi, "Rhetoric and Philosophy"
Week
9—The Social
Turn
Tuesday, October 19 Read Brodkey, "Modernism and the Scene(s) of
Writing and Berlin, "An Overview"
Thursday, October
21 Read Bruffee, "Social Construction, Language,
and Authority" and Elbow, "In Defense of Private Writing"
Week 10—Papers
Tuesday, October 26 Paper #2 due
Thursday, October 28 Paper #2 due
Week 11—Postmodern
Rhetoric(s)
Tuesday, November 2 Read Foucault, "What is an Author?." Crowley, "writing
and Writing," and Derrida, "The End of the Book"
Thursday, November 4 NO CLASS--Read Sirc, "Composition's Eye," Vitanza, "Abandoned
to Writing," and skim issue
5.1 of Enculturation
Week 12— Race,
Class, Gender, and Rhetoric
Tuesday, November 9 Read Flynn, "Composing as a Woman" and Brodkey, "On
the Subjects of Class and Gender"
Thursday, November 11 Read Royster, "When the First Voice You
Hear is Not Your Own" and Nakamura, "Race in/for Cyberspace"
Week
13—Rhetorics
of Technology
Tuesday, November 16 Read Benjamin, "Work of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction" and Baron, "From Pencils to Pixels"
Thursday, November 18 Read Spinuzzi, "Light Green Doesn't Mean
Hydrology" and Sullivan, "Practicing Safe Visual Rhetoric
on the Web"
Week
14—Civic
Interventions
Tuesday, November 23 Read Miller, "Genre as Social Action" and Stotsky, "Participatory
Writing: Literacy for Civic Purposes"
Thursday, November 25 NO CLASS-Thanksgiving Break
Week 15—Papers
Tuesday, November 30 Paper #3 due
Thursday, December 2 Paper #3 due
Week 16—Workshop
Final Projects
Tuesday, December 7 Workshop projects
Thursday, December 9 Workshop projects
Final project due on Thursday, December 16 at 5pm