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