Overview: Assorted SHubs
Brief Overview of Comp-Rhet History and Aims
Defining the area: research and reflection on the processes (psych, soc, cognition, material, biographcial, autobio, ...) of creating written and now multimodal texts. Creating its own field. Ties to rhetoric. Place of comp-rhet in academia: historiography.- sitting at the fringe, always the black sheep, the poor relation, so always pimping the new, and seeking to ground its work in the empirical study and/or the pedagogical grounding of the moment.
- Piaget > Vygotsky > Friere
- New Critics > Vygotsky > Anne Berthoff
- Behaviorism > Cognitive Science > Flower and Hayes
- Developmental > Epistemic > Dowst > Coles
- tends to follow trends rather than set them.
- 1860s. Normal schools. Crises of literacy of middle management.
- seeks to bracket or set aside or counterpoint myths - but in its own interests.
- seeks to professionalize the discipline - but we're still working in the economy of the adjunct / faculty spouse.
- still working to critique that notion that the Good Writer = Good Teacher of Writing.
- still working to theorize the subject: when process becomes recipe.
- still working to move toward rhetoric and beyond grammar.
- still working to save rhetoric from bad rep and earlier conflation of rhetoric with style.
- more recently working from pre-Socratic rhetorical grounding.
- most recently moving into multimodal composition and warring over alignments (London Group of Semiotics v American theorists).
Writing Critical Summaries
Start with a how to from Harris - and we'll work out what's valuable to us as a group: Teaching Abstract and Critique Writing, pdf. Harris. Article on how to teach writing the scholarly critique. Lays out solid criteria for writing good critiques.Presenters for next week
Reading beyond the assigned readings
The main professional organization for Com-Rhet is the NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English. Become a student member. Cheap.Main journal
College Composition and Communication (CCC)from 03/01/1950 to 12/31/2007 in JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive Collection
http://www.jstor.org.bsuproxy.mnpals.net/action/showPublication?journalCode=collcompcomm
from 1997 to present in EBSCOhost EJS
1978 to present at CCC
http://ejournals.ebsco.com.bsuproxy.mnpals.net/RemoteSiteWithInstructions.asp?JournalID=109092&RemoteURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Encte%2Eorg%2Fcccc%2Fccc%2Fissues
Other Journals
E-access to full text through the Library- Reseach in the Teaching of English (RTE)
- College English (CE). Mainly literature, but some comp theory http://ejournals.ebsco.com.bsuproxy.mnpals.net/Journal2.asp?JournalID=109091
- Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/87554615
- Kairos, A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy Online only. http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/
List of Journals in the Wider Rhet Comp Tech Writing E-Writing WAC WPA Field (2008), Byron Hawk
Books
- Berthoff, Ann E, and James Stephens. Forming/Thinking/Writing: The Composing Imagination. 2nd ed. Boynton/Cook, Pubs., 1988.
- Coles, William E., Jr. The Plural I: The Teaching of Writing. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. Republished as The Plural I and After.
- North, Stephen M. The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of An Emerging Field. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton; Cook, 1987.
- Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instuction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. Print.
- Crowley, Sharon. The Methodical Memory: Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990. Print.
- Knoblauch, C H, and Lil Brannon. Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing. Upper Montclair: Boynton/Cook, 1984. Print.
