For a Course on Rhetorical Genre Studies

Institutional 
& Pedagogical 
Genre 
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From the Editors: 30 Years of Genre as Social Action: The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of RGS

Miller's Rhetoric Syllabus

http://tmiller.faculty.arizona.edu/eng_362_rhetorical_traditions

I have saved a copy of the syllabus in RIC/Courses on my desktop.

More on 379

ENGL 379

Social justice element?

Making arguments

Analyze the arguments on an issue

Take a position on an issue

Make that argument in 2-3 different mediums

Make that argument to 2-3 different types of audiences

Ideas for ENGL 379

Topics:

• Plagiarism and Patchwriting

• Genre as Social Action

• Intertextuality

Porter, James E. (1986). Intertextuality and the discourse community. Rhetoric Review, 5, 34–47.

Selzer, Jack. (1993). Intertextuality and the writing process: An overview. In Rachel Spilka (Ed.), Writing in the workplace: New research perspectives (pp. 171–180). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP.

• Identity and Composing

Ketter/Hunter

For Fall 2013

379 for fall:

Unit 1: Intro to Rhetoric (OWL)
Unit 2: Genre Theory
Unit 3: Genre Analysis

Books & Ideas for Next Time

Recommendations from Meredith Taylor:

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs., and Thomas R. Burkholder. Critiques of Contemporary Rhetoric. Belmont: Wadsworth Pub, 1997.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs., and Susan Schultz. Huxman. The Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking, and Writing Critically. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA, USA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003.

Two other ideas:

1. Use OWL to introduce rhetoric and just have the students write a ton of papers, evaluations, proposals, classical arguments, etc. 

2. Focus the course on rhetorical genre theory.

ENGL 379: Planning

Rhetoric: An Overview (Keith and Lundberg)
Rhetoric: How To (Hart and Daughton)
Rhetoric: Critical Texts (Aristotle?)