Reading Lists

The candidacy exam at OSU does not have any required texts to be covered, though many of the ones listed so far naturally make their way on.

Here is our masters exam reading list, for the Rhet/Comp section at least:

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Students must choose a minimum of fifteen (15) texts -- or groups of texts -- from the area/s they have chosen to be examined on from this category.

1. Rhetoric
2. Composition
3. Literacy Studies
4. Digital Media Studies

I. History and Theory of Rhetoric
Three required texts.

1) Aristotle. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. Trans. George A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

2) Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

3) Plato. Gorgias and Phaedrus. in The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. 2nd Edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.
Historical

Choose 12 texts from the following, at least 3 from the same historical cluster.

*Asterisked authors or items are also available in The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. 2nd Edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.

A. Classical

4) Cicero. De Inventione, Book I. Trans. H. M. Hubbell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1960.

5) [Cicero.] Rhetorica Ad Herennium. Book I or * Book IV. Trans. H. Caplan. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989. 1-56, 227-411.

6) *Gorgias. "Encomium of Helen." In George Kennedy (ed.) On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. by Aristotle. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. 283-288. And: * Isocrates. "Against the Sophists," and "Antidosis." In Isocrates: With an English Translation by George Norlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.

7) Hermogenes. [De Statibus.] On Issues: strategies of argument in later Greek rhetoric. Trans. Malcolm Heath. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

8) *Quintilian. Institutes of Oratory. Selections from Rhetorical Tradition. 364-428.
B. Medieval
9) [Anon.of Bologna]. "The Principles of Letter-Writing." Trans. James Murphy. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts. Ed. James J. Murphy. Berkeley: U of California P, 1971.

10) Augustine. [De Doctrina Christiana.] On Christian Teaching. Trans. R. P. H. Green. Cambridge: Oxford UP, 1997.

11) Boethius. De Topicis Differentiis. Trans. Eleonore Stump. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1978.

12) Geoffrey of Vinsauf. Poetria Nova. Trans. James Murphy. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts. Ed. James J. Murphy. Berkeley: U of California P, 1971.

13) de Pizan, Christine. The Treasure of the City of Ladies. Trans. Sarah Lawson. New York: Penguin, 1985.

14) Robert of Basevorn. "The Form of Preaching." Trans. James Murphy. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts. Ed. James J. Murphy. Berkeley: U Cal P, 1971.
C. Renaissance
15) Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. in Selected philosophical works. Ed. Rose-Mary Sargent. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1999. 1-49.

16) Castiglione, Baldassarre. Book of the Courtier. Trans. George Bull. Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1967.
17) Erasmus. Selections from Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style and Ecclesiastes in The Rhetorical Tradition. 581-650.

18) Fell, Margaret. Women's Speaking Justified , Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures. The Rhetorical Tradition. 753-760.; and

* de Scudéry, Madelaine. Of Conversation; Of Speaking Too Much, or Too Little. The Rhetorical Tradition. 767-779.; and

* Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sister Filtotea de la Cruz. The Rhetorical Tradition. 784-788.

19) Ramus, Petrus. Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian. Trans. Carole Newlands. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois UP, 1986.

20) Wilson, Thomas. The Art of Rhetoric. Ed. Peter E. Medine. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
D. Eighteenth Century
21) Astell, Mary. A serious proposal to the ladies. Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg. Brookfield, VT: Pickering & Chatto, 1997.

22) Blair, Hugh. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Selections from The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately. Ed. James Golden and Edward P. J. Corbett. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

23) Campbell, George. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Selections from The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately. Ed. James Golden and Edward P. J. Corbett. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

24) Sheridan, Thomas. A Course of Lectures on Elocution. Delmar, NY: Scolars Facsimiles & Reprints, 1991.

25) Vico, Giambattista. On the Study Methods of Our Time. Trans. Elio Gianturco. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.
E. Nineteenth Century
26)*Bain, Alexander. "From English Composition and Rhetoric," 1145 and Adams, Sherman Hill. "The Principles of Rhetoric" 1149. The Rhetorical Tradition.

27) Grimké, Sarah. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes. in Women's Political and Social Thought: an Anthology. Ed. Hilda L. Smith and Berenice A. Carroll. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000.

28) de Quincey, Thomas. Essays on Style, Rhetoric, and Language. Ed. By Fred Scott. Boston: Allyn, 1893.

29) Wells, Ida B. Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells. Ed. Jacqueline Jones Royster. Boston: Bedford, 1997.

30) Whately, Richard. Elements of Rhetoric. Selections from The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately. Ed. James Golden and Edward P. J. Corbett. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.
F. Modern and Postmodern
31) *Anzaldúa, Gloria. "From Borderlands/La Frontera" The Rhetorical Tradition. 1582-1604.

32) *Bakhtin, Mikhail. From "Marxism and the Philosophy of Language" & "The Problem of Speech Genres" The Rhetorical Tradition. 1206-1245.

33) Booth, Wayne. Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent. Notre Dame: U Notre Dame P, 1974.

34) *Foucault, Michel from "The Archaeology of Knowledge" and "The Order of Discourse." The Rhetorical Tradition. 1432-1470.

35) *Gates, Jr., Henry Louis. "The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifying," The Rhetorical Tradition. 1543-1581.

36) *Weaver, Richard. Ethics of Rhetoric. Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1970. The Rhetorical Tradition. 1348-1371.

37) *Woolf, Virginia. From "Professions for Women," "Women and Fiction," "Dorothy Richardson," and "A Room of One's Own." The Rhetorical Tradition. 1246-1269.

Focus Areas: For students with a focus in Rhetoric. Choose one of the following areas and read the texts indicated, adding additional readings as necesary to reach a toal of five. Students may design their own cluster in consultation with their advisor and a professor in rhetoric.

1. Environmental Rhetoric

Herndl, Carl George, and Stuart C Brown. Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. (selections by Ulman, Katz & Miller, Bergman)

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, and Jacqueline S. Palmer. Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.

Waddell, Craig, ed. Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and the Environment. Landmark Essay Series 12. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997. (selections by Oravec, Waddel, Lange, Peterson & Horton)

2. Rhetoric, Performance, and the Body

Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex." New York: Routledge, 1993. (Chapter 1, "Bodies that Matter")

Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Hesford, Wendy. "Reading Rape Stories: Material Rhetoric and the Trauma of Representation." Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the Real. Eds. Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol. University of Illinois Press, 2001. 13-46.

Johnson, Mark. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. (Introduction and Chapter 5).

Selzer, Jack, and Sharon Crowley, eds. Rhetorical Bodies. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1999. (selections by Blair, Haas, Condit, Faigley, Wells)

3. Post-Colonialism and the Rhetoric of Empire

Bhabha, Homi. "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation." The Location of Culture. NY & London: Routledge, 1994. 139-171.

Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993. (Introduction and Chapter 1)

Olson, Gary and Lynn Worsham, eds. Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial. NY: Suny Press, 1998. (selections by Olson & Worsham, Lunsford, Dobrin, and Drew)

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "The Politics of Translation." Destablizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates. Ed. Michelle Barrett and Anne Phillips. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1992, 177-200 and Raka Shome. "Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An 'Other' View" in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory. Ed. Lucaites, Conit, and Caudill. 591-608.

Spurr, David. The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.
4. Rhetoric and Disablility Studies
Auslander, Philip, and Carrie Sandahl, eds. Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Brueggemann, Brenda; Sharon Snyder, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, eds. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. New York: MLA, expected June 2002. (editors' introduction, and articles by Thomson, McRuer, Nelson, Mitchell, and "An Enabling Pedagogy" by Brueggemann.)

Corker, Marian, and Sally French, eds. Disability discourse. Buckingham ; Philadelphia, Pa.: Open University Press, 1999. (Brueggemann and Fredal, "Studying Disability Rhetorically", pp. 129-136)

Leweicki-Wilson, Cynthia, and James C. Wilson, Eds. Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. (Editors' introduction; Prendergast, Brueggemann)
5. Electric/Digital Rhetorics
Gray-Rosendale, Laura & Sibylle Gruber, Eds. Alternative Rhetorics : Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition, NY: Suny Press, 2001. (selections by Enos & Borrownman, Gruber, Lambiase, Killoran)

Howard, Tharon W. A Rhetoric of Electronic Communities. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997.

Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Welch, Kathleen. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
6. Feminist Rhetorics
Glenn, Cheryl. Rhetoric Retold : Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity through the Renaissance. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Johnson, Nan. Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life: 1866-1910. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Lunsford, Andrea, Ed. Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 1995.

Ritchie, Joy S., and Kate Ronald, eds. Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s). Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2001. (selections of primary texts)

Faculty consultants: Professors Brueggeman, Fredal, Halasek, Hesford, Johnson, Royster, Ulman

Composition

Item 1: Current Readings in Composition

In consultation with advisor or composition faculty, select five related articles (e.g., basic writing, computers and composition, disability and composition, professional and technical communication, writing center theory and practice,) from leading journals in the field published within the last five years. These five articles constitute one item.

Items 2-4: Disciplinary Overviews

Choose three

Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Bullock, Richard, and John Trimbur, eds. The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991.

Crowley, Sharon. Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966. NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Horner, Bruce. Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique. New York: SUNY Press, 2000.

Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: the Politics of Composition. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

North, Stephen. The Making of Knowledge in Composition: A Portrait of an Emerging Field. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1987.

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan, and Stuart A. Selber. Central Works in Technical Communication. New York: Oxford UP, 2004.
Items 5-15: Composition History, Pedagogy, and Theory
Choose eleven.

Bazerman, Charles, and Paul Prior. What Writing Does and How It Does It. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. (Select four chapters).

Brereton, John. The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1925: A Documentary History. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. (Selections).

Denzin, Norman K., and Yvonna Lincoln. Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005. (Selections).

Ede, Lisa. On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays, 1975-1998. Boston: Bedford-St. Martins, 1999. (Selections).

_____. Situating Composition Studies. Carbondale: SIUP, 2004.

Emig, Janet. The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1971.

Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

Faigley, Lester, Roger Cherry, Jolliffe David, and Skinner Anna, eds. Assessing Writer’s knowledge and Process of Composing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1985. (Chapters 1-5, 13).

Flower, Linda. The Construction of Negotiated Meaning. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.

Gilyard, Keith. Let's Flip the Script. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.

Gilyard, Keith, ed. Race, Rhetoric, and Composition. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Greenbaum, Andrea, ed. Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies. Albany, NY: SUNY, 2001.

Halasek, Kay. A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. (Chapters 2-6).

Hawisher, Gail E. and Cynthia L. Selfe, eds. Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999. (selections by Baron, Faigley, Hawisher & Sullivan, Wysocki & Johnson-Eilola).

Hawk, Byron. A Counter-History of Composition. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

Heath, Shirley Brice. Ways With Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. (Prologue, Chapters 5 and 6, Epilogue).

Hesford, Wendy. Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. (Chapter 3 "Writing Identities").

Horner, Bruce, and Min-Zhan Lu. Representing the Other: Basic Writers and the Teaching of Basic Writing. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.

Jarratt, Susan, and Lynn Worsham, eds. Feminism and Composition Studies. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998. (Selections by Jarratt, Logan, Reynolds, Schell).

Kirsch, Gesa, and Patricia A. Sullivan. Methods and Methodology in Composition Research. Carbondale: SIUP 1992.

Lindemann, Erika, and Tate Gary, eds. An Introduction to Composition Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. (Selections by Ede, Lunsford, Moran, and Slevin).

Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia, and Brenda Jo Brueggemann. Disability and the Teaching of Writing. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2007.

Malinowitz, Harriet. Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook, 1995.

Miller, Susan. The Norton Book of Composition Studies. New York: Norton, 2009.

_____. Textual Carnivals: the Politics of Composition. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. (Chapters 1-3).

Moss, Beverly, ed. Literacy Across Communities. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1994.

O’Hare, Frank. Sentence-Combining: Improving Student Writing Without Formal Grammar Instruction. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1973. (Chapter 5) and Enos, Theresa, ed. A Sourcebook for basic writing teachers. New York: Random House, 1987. (Selections by Sommers and Perl).

Prior, Paul. Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary. New York: Penguin, 1990.

Sanchez, Raul. The Function of Theory in Composition Studies. Albany: SUNY PRESS, 2005.

Schilb, John. Between the Lines: Relating Composition Theory & Literary Theory. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook, 1996.

Severino, Carol; Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler, eds. Writing in Multicultural Settings. New York: MLA, 1997. (selections by Lisle and Mano; Campbell; De and Gregory; Jamieson; Guerra; Mangelsdorf).

Shaughnessy, Mina. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Sidler, Michelle, Elizabeth Smith Overman, and Richard Morris. Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford-St. Martins, 2007.

Smit, David. The End of Composition Studies. Carbondale: SIUP, 2004.

Sternglass, Marilyn. Time to Know Them: A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.

Villanueva, Victor, ed. Cross-Talk in Composition Theory. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2003. (Selections).

Weisser, Christian. Moving Beyond Academic Discourse. Carbondale: SIUP, 2002.

Focus Areas:

Students selecting Composition as a major area for the MA exam must name a focus area. Successful focus areas from past exams include basic writing, computers and composition, disability and composition, professional and technical communication, and writing center theory and practice. Other focus areas can be defined in consultation with the advisor.

To establish a focus area for the exam, select five additional items from the categories below. (All three categories are required, but there are options within each category.) Titles from the lists above can be used as items in the focus area if they have not already been selected (i.e., no overlap between items on the general lists and items in the focus area is allowed).

Focus Area Item 1: Research Methodologies (Choose one from A-D):

A. Bazerman, Charles, and Paul Prior. What Writing Does and How It Does It. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. (Select four chapters).

B. Denzin, Norman K., and Yvonna Lincoln. Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005. (Select four chapters).

C. Kirsch, Gesa, and Patricia A. Sullivan. Methods and Methodology in Composition Research. Carbondale: SIUP 1992. (Select four chapters).

D. Mortensen, Peter, and Gesa E. Kirsch, eds. Ethics and Representation In Qualitative Studies of Literacy. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1996. (Select four chapters).

Focus Area Items 2-4: Additional Readings in the Focus Area

In consultation with an advisor or composition faculty member, select three additional items in the focus area. These items might come from the reading list above, or they might come from outside the list. These three selections constitute items 2-4.

Focus Area Item 5: Current Readings in the Focus Area

In consultation with an advisor or composition faculty member, select five related articles from leading journals published within the last five years. These five articles constitute one item.

Literacy Studies
Arnove, Robert F., and Harvey J. Graff, eds. National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective. New York: Plenum, 1987.
If selecting Barton, choose only one title from the following three items:
Barton, David. Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Barton, David and Mary Hamilton. Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community.

Barton, David, Mary Hamilton, and Roz Ivanic, eds. Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in Context. London: Routledge, 2000.

Bloch, R. Howard and Carla Hesse, eds. Future Libraries. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

Boone, Elizabeth Hill and Walter D. Mignolo, eds. Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996.

Brandt, Deborah. Literacy in American Lives. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Cornelius, Janet. When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South. Columbus, SC: U of South Carolina P, 1991.

Darnton, Robert, "What Is the History of Books?" The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History. New York: Norton 1990.

---. "First Steps Toward a History of Reading," The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History. New York: Norton 1990.

Davidson, Cathy N. Reading in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.

diSessa, Andrea A.. Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2000.

Dyson, Anne Haas. The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Cultures. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1979.

---. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1983.
Read with
Febvre, Lucien and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800. London: New Left Books, 1976.

Fernandez, Ramona. Imagining Literacy. Austin: U of Texas P, 2001.

Finders, Margaret. Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997.

Sternglass, Marilyn. Time to Know Them: A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
If selecting Finnegan, choose only one title from the following two items:
Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1977.

---. Literacy and Orality: Studies in the Technology of Communication. Oxford: Basil Blackell, 1988.

Freire, Paulo. The Politics of Education: Culture, Power and Liberation. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey, 1985.

Freire, Paulo. Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1987.

Gee, James Paul. Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourse. 2nd ed. London: Taylor & Francis, 1996.

Gere, Anne Ruggles. Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1997.

Goody, Jack. The Domestication of the Savage Word. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Goody, Jack, ed. Literacy in Traditional Societies Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1975.

Grafton, Anthony T. "The Importance of Being Printed," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11 (1980): 265-286.
If selecting Graff, choose only one title from the following three items:
Graff, Harvey J. The Literacy Myth: Cultural Integration and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century City. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1987.

---. The Labyrinths of Literacy. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995.

---. The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Society and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.

Heath, Shirley Brice. Ways With Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Houston, R A. Literacy in Early Modern Europe. London: Longman, 2002.

Hull, Glynda and K. Schultz, eds. School's Out! Bridging Out-of-School Literacies with Classroom Practice. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.

Kaestle, Carl, et al. Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880. New Haven: Yale UP, 1991.

McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Durham: Duke UP, 2002.

McKenzie, Donald. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Nunberg, Geoffrey, ed. The Future of the Book. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.

Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy. London: Methuen, 1982.

Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, PatriarchY, and Popular Culture. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1991.

Rose, Mike. Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

---. The Mind at Work: The Intelligence of American Workers. New York: Viking, 2004.

Royster, Jacqueline Jones. Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2000.

Selfe, Cynthia L. and Gail E. Hawisher. Literate Lives in the Information Age: Stories from the United States. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.

Street, Brian V. Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography, and Education. London: Longman, 1995.M

Vincent, David. The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe. Oxford: Polity, 2000.

Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2005.

Young, Morris. Minor Re/Visions: Asian-American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004. Faculty consultants: Professors Brueggemann, Cherry, Halasek, Hesford, Moss, Royster

Digital Media Studies
Required Texts
Bolter, J. David. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print. 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

Kolko, Beth E., Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert B. Rodman, eds. Race in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. MIT, 2001.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. 1st MIT Press ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.

Selfe, Cynthia L. Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention. Studies in Writing & Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.

Wysocki, Anne Frances. "A Bookling Monument." Kairos. 2002. 10 October 2007. .
Choose any 9 additional texts from the following list
Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.

Banks, Adam J. Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground. NCTE-LEA Research Series in Literacy and Composition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; NCTE, 2006.

Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Boston, MA: Faber and Faber, 1994.

Bolter, J. David, and Diane Gromala. Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency. Leonardo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Bolter, J. David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

Boyle, James. 7 Ways to Ruin a Technological Revolution. 2006. 10 October 2007. .

Brandt, Deborah. "Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century." College English 57 (1995): 649-68.

Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

Cope, Bill, Mary Kalantzis, and New London Group. Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. Literacies. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.

Deibert, Ronald J. Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation. New Directions in World Politics. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.

DeWitt, Scott Lloyd. Writing Inventions: Identities, Technologies, Pedagogies. Albany: State U of New York P, 2001.

Feenburg, Andrew. Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 2002.

Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

George, Diana. "From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing." CCC 54.1 (2002): 11-39.

Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B Pingree, eds. New Media, 1740-1915. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Gurak, Laura J., Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. June 2004. 21 October 2007 .

Haas, Christina. Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.

Handa, Carolyn. Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004.

Hawisher, Gail, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st-Century Technologies. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.

Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. Mediawork: Mediaworks Pamphlets. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.

Heidegger, Martin. "The Question Concerning Technology." The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. Trans. William Lovittt. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. 3-35.

Kress, Gunther R. Literacy in the New Media Age. Literacies. London: Routledge, 2003.

Kress, Gunther R., and Theo Van Leeuwen. Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. London: Arnold; New York, Oxford UP, 2001.

Lawrence Lessig. <>. 2005. Audio recording of conference talk (Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco). 10 October 2007. .

McGann, Jerome J. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Selber, Stuart A. Multiliteracies for a Digital Age. Studies in Writing & Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.

Selfe, Cynthia L., and Gail E. Hawisher. Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.

Selfe, Richard. Sustainable Computer Environments: Cultures of Support in English Studies and Language Arts. New Dimensions in Computers and Composition. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005.

Sidler, Michelle, Elizabeth O. Smith, and Richard Morris. Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, and Pat Harrigan. First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2004.

Warschauer, Mark. Electronic Literacies: Language, Culture, and Power in Online Education. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

Welch, Kathleen E. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. Digital Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004.

Study the selections for the following authors as they are included in Bizzell and Herzberg’s The Rhetorical Tradition (2nd ed.), Ritchie and Ronald’s Available Means, and Donawerth’s Rhetorical Theory by Women before 1900.

Gorgias, Encomium of Helen
Anonymous, Dissoi Logoi
Aspasia
Isocrates
Plato
Aristotle
Cicero
Quintilian
Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, Book IV
Julian of Norwich
Christine de Pizan
Ramus
Queen Elizabeth I
Margaret Fell
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Mary Astell
Campbell
Blair
Whately
Maria W. Stewart
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
Frances Willard,
Woman in the Pulpit
Gertrude Buck
Mary Augusta
Bakhtin
Kenneth Burke
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca
Foucault
Gloria Anzaldua

Section 1, Part B

Jay David Bolter. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. 2nd Ed. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001.

James Britton, et al. The Development of Writing Ability (11-18). Chapters 1 (1-18), 2 (19- 49), and 4 (59-73), and 5 (74-87).

Francis Christensen. “A Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence.” CCC 12 (1963): 155-61. (In Miller, Norton Book of Composition Studies)

Robert J. Connors. “The Erasure of the Sentence.” CCC 52.1 (Sep 2000): 96-128.

Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition.
Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1992.

Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

James Kinneavy. A Theory of Discourse, chs 1 and 2 (1-72) and ch 6 (393-449).

James Moffett. Teaching the Universe of Discourse. Ch 2 "Kinds and Orders of Discourse" (14-59) and Ch 6 "Learning to Write by Writing" (188-210).

Stephen North. The Making of Knowledge in Composition. [ Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy, London: Routledge, 2002, pp.204, ISBN 0415281294

Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary. Penguin, 2005.

Shaughnessy, Mina P. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing.
New York: Oxford UP, 1977.

Young, Becker, and Pike. Rhetoric: Discovery and Change. Excerpts from Ch 2, "The “Writer
as Interpreter of Experience" (25-30), Ch 3, "Toward Understanding and Sharing Experience" (53-60), and Ch 6, "Preparation" (119-36).

2. Some Approaches For Viewing and Studying the Field

Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior, eds. What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Mahwah: Erlbaum, 2004.

Richard Beach. "Experimental and Descriptive Research Methods." Kirsch and Sullivan [below], 217-43.

Robert Brooke and Amy Goodburn. “The Ethics of Research and the CCCC Ethical Guidelines: An Electronic Interview with Ellen Cushman and Peter Mortensen.” Writing on the Edge. 13.2 (Spring 2003): 7-20. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=e...

Council of Writing Program Administrators. Evaluating the Intellectual Work of Writing Administration. 1998. http://www.wpacouncil.org/positions/intellectualwork.html. Reprinted in The Longman Sourcebook for Writing Administrators, 366-378.

Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle. “Teaching About Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning ‘First Year Composition’ as ‘Introduction to Writing Studies.’” CCC 58 (2007): 552-84.

Linda Flower, "Cognition, Context, and Theory Building." CCC 40 (Oct. 1989), particularly 282-95 [part 1 "Toward Interactive Theory"]. (In Villanueva, Cross-Talk)

Richard Fulkerson, “Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” CCC 56.4 (June 2004): 654-87.

Richard Gebhardt. “Evolving Approaches to Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure in Composition Studies” Ch 1 (1-18) in Academic Advancement in Composition Studies.

Gesa Kirsch, Faye Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, Mary Sheridan-Rabideau, eds. Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. NCTE and Bedford/St. Martin’s: 2003.

Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan, eds. Methods and Methodology in Composition Research. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.

Karen Kopelson. “Sp(l)itting Images; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition.” CCC 59 (2008): 750-80.

Janice Lauer. "Rhetoric and Composition Studies: A Multimodal Discipline." Enos and Brown, Defining the New Rhetorics, 44-54.

Janice Lauer and William Asher. Composition Research: Empirical Designs. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.

Andrea Lunsford, "The Nature of Composition Studies," An Introduction to Composition Studies, ed. Erica Lindemann and Gary Tate, 1-1

Heidi A. McKee and Danielle DeVoss, eds. Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues. Cresskill: Hampton, 2007.

Susan Miller. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Peter Mortensen and Gesa Kirsch. Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy. NCTE. 1996.

Stuart Selber. Multiliteracies for a digital age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.

3. Audience/Context

David Bartholomae. “Inventing the University,” When a Writer Can’t Write, ed. Mike Rose. (In Miller, Norton Book of Composition Studies)

Lloyd F. Bitzer. “The Rhetorical Situation,” Philosophy and Rhetoric (Winter 1968): 1-14. (In Covino and Jolliffe, Rhetoric)

Scott Consigny. “Rhetoric and Its Situations.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, 7 (1974): 175.

Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford. "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked." CCC 35 (May
1984). (In Villanueva, Cross-Talk;

Ede, On Writing Research; Corbett Sourcebook)

Peter Elbow. "Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience" CE 49 (Jan
1987): 50–69. (In 4th ed. Corbett’s Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook

Michel Foucault. "What is An Author?" (See Major Works)

James Kinneavy. Kairos: A Neglected Concept in Classical Rhetoric.” Rhetoric and Praxis,
ed. Jean Dietz Moss, 79-105.

Roxanne Mountford. "On Gender and Rhetorical Space." RSQ 31.1 (2001): 41–71.

Walter J. Ong. S.J. "The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction." PMLA 90 (Jan 1975): 9–21.

Richard E Vatz. “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 6.3 (1973):
154. (In Covino and Jolliffe, Rhetoric)

4. History Of Rhetoric/Composition

Charles Bazerman and David Russell, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994. Early chapters providing historical context

James Berlin. Rhetoric & Reality. Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Patricia Bizzell. “Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What Difference
Do They Make?” RSQ 30 (2000): 5-17; rpt. Feminism and Composition: A Critical
Sourcebook, ed. Gesa Kirsch et al. John Brereton, ed.

The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1925.
U of Pittsburgh P, 1995. Jean Ferguson Carr, Stephen L. Carr, and Lucille Schultz, eds.

Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

Cheryl Glenn. Rhetoric Retold. Southern Illinois P, 1997.

Gail Hawisher, et al. Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education:
1979-1994. Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ 1996.

Thomas Miller. The Formation of College English. U of Pittsburgh P, 1997.

James J. Murphy. ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Modern
America. 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum and Hermagoras Press, 2001.

Jacqueline Jones Royster and Jean C. Williams. "History in the Spaces Left: African
American Presence and Narratives of Composition Studies." CCC 50.4 (June 1999): 563–84.

5. Composing Processes

Patricia Bizzell. “Cognition, Convention and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing.” PRE/TEXT 3.3 (1982):213-43. (In Villanueva, Cross-Talk)

Breuch, Lee-Ann M. Kastman. “Post Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philosophical Exercise. JAC 22.1 (2002). (In Villanueva, Cross-Talk)

James Britton. “The Processes of Writing” (see the Major Works list).

Janet Emig. “Writing as a Mode of Learning” (In Villanueva, Cross-Talk)

David Russell. “The Myth of Transcience,” Writing in the Academic Disciplines: 1870-1990.
(This chapter is in both the 2002 and 1991 editions)

Lester Faigley. "Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal." CE 48 (Oct. 1986), 427-40.

Linda Flower. "Writer Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing." CE 41.1 (1979): 19-37.

Linda Flower, and John R. Hayes. "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing." (In Villanueva, Cross-Talk)

Karen LeFevre. Invention As a Social Act. Southern Illinois UP, 1997.

D. Gordon Rohman. "Pre-Writing: The Stage of Discovery in the Writing Process." College
Composition and Communication 16 (May 1965): 106-112.

Nancy Sommers. “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers.” (In
Villanueva, Cross-Talk)

6. Assessment
Bob Broad. What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing. Logan, Utah State University Press, 2003.

Norbert Elliot. On a Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America. Studies in Composition and Rhetoric 3. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

Susanmarie Harrington, et al., eds. The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus After the WPA Outcomes Statement. Utah State University Press, 2005.

Brian Huot. (RE)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. Utah State University Press, 2002.

Brian Huot and Peggy O’Neill, eds. Assessing Writing: A Critical Sourcebook. NCTE/Bedford’s St. Martin’s, 2009.

NCTE-WPA White Paper on Writing Assessment in Colleges and Universities. July 7, 2008. .

Diane Penrod, Composition in Convergence: The Impact of New Media on Writing Assessment. Erlbaum, 2005.

Nancy Sommers, “Responding to Student Writing.” College Composition and Communication 33.2 (May 1982): 148-56. (In St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing)

Edward White, Assigning, Responding and Assessing: A Writing Teacher’s Guide. 4th ed.
Bedford St. Martin’s Press. 2008.

Carl Whithaus., Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes
Testing. Erlbaum, 2005.

Kathleen Blake Yancey, “Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing
Assessment.” CCC 50.3 (1999). Also, Reflection in the Writing Classroom. Utah State University Press, 1998.

7. Technology

Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT, 2000.

James Inman, Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004.

Cynthia Selfe. Multimodal Composition. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2007.

Michelle Sidler, et al. Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook.
Bedford, 2007.

Pamela Takayoshi and Brian Huot, eds., Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction.
Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Anne Wysocki, et al., Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the
Teaching of Composition. Utah State University Press, 2004.

8. Composition Studies and Engagement

Ellen Cushman, “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change.” College Composition and Communication 47.1 (Feb 1996): 7-28. (In Ede, On Writing Research)

Thomas Deans, Writing Partnerships: Service Learning in Composition (NCTE, 2000) Linda Flower, Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement. Southern Illinois
UP, 2008.

Jeffrey Grabill, Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action.
Hampton Press, 2007.

Christian Weisser, Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the
Public Sphere. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

Nancy Welch, Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World.
Boynton/Cook, 2008.

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Houston Reading List
Submitted by comstone (not verified) on March 13, 2011 - 9:02am.
Core List:
Rhetoric

* Plato, Gorgias
* Aristotle, Rhetoric
* Cicero, de Inventione
* Machiavelli, The Prince
* Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric of Motives

Recommended:

* Thomas Conley, Rhetoric in the European Tradition—Conley’s text provides a short, readable overview of the history of rhetoric.

Composition Studies

* James Kinneavy, A Theory of Discourse
* James Berlin, Rhetoric and Reality
* Lev Vygotsky, Thought and Language
* Robert Connors, Composition Rhetoric
* Victor Villanueva, ed. Cross-Talk in Composition Theory: A Reader (2nd ed.)

In addition to these core texts in composition studies, a student should choose one text from one of the following important areas in the contemporary scholarship in composition studies:

Theory/practice

* Thomas Newkirk, The Performance of Self in Student Writing (1997)
* Gary Olson (ed.), Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work (2002)
* Anis Bawarshi, Genre and the Invention of the Writer (2003)
* David Bartholomae, Writing on the Margins (2005)

History

* Sharon Crowley. Composition in the University (1998)
* Anne Ruggles Gere, Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in US Women’s Clubs 1880-1920 (1997)
* Thomas Masters, Practicing Writing: The Postwar Discourse of Freshmen English 2004)
* James Murphy, Short History of Writing Instruction (2001)
* Thomas Miller, Formation of College English (1997)
* Stephen North, Making of Knowledge in Composition (1987)

Culture

* Deborah Brandt, Literacy in American Lives (2001)
* William DeGenaro, Who Says? Working Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness and Community (2007)

Feminism:

* Andrea Lunsford, ed., Reclaiming Rhetorica (1995)
* Cheryl Glenn, Rhetoric Retold (1997)
* Kirsch et al, Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook (2003)
* Susan Jarratt and Lynn Worsham, Feminism and Composition Studies (1998)

Creative Writing:

* Bishop, Released into Language: Options for Teaching Creative Writing (1990)
* Anna Leahy, ed. Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project (2005)

Technology:

* Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe, eds., Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies (1999)

Pedagogy:

* Mina Shaughnessy, Errors and Expectations (1977)
* Kay Halasek, Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies (1999)

Plus 20 student-selected texts