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Program Overview
Major Coursework
Choosing a Minor
Course Load
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Foreign Language Requirement
The 32-Credit Rule & Continual Enrollment
Prelims Part I: Portfolio
Prelims Part II: Oral Examination
Prelims Calculator
Admission to Candidacy
Dissertation
Timeline for Completion of Degree
Readings Lists


You have chosen to join a venerable field and a dynamic program. During the next several years you should consider yourself an apprentice to the professions of research and teaching. While there will be plenty of requirements to meet, it is important to keep your sights on the broad goals of professional growth and experience. You are preparing to join a field that is demandingly multidisciplinary and protean, one that combines theory and practice in serious and rigorous ways, and one that offers many kinds of self-definition depending on your career goals. These conditions put a premium on personal initiative and creativity. Coursework and preliminary examinations will rightly occupy your attention over the next few years. However, fulfilling basic requirements is only the beginning–not the end–of your professional development. Making the most of your experience as a teaching assistant, taking advantage of apprentice and leadership opportunities beyond the classroom, participating in the larger professional life of the program, the department, and the field–all are vital aspects of your preparation. Coming to understand your own strengths and interests and developing them to the highest standard of excellence is the focus upon which your efforts and the faculty’s efforts should converge. We try to provide an environment that stimulates and supports your growth. However, it is critical that you be an active agent in this process.

To be active, it is first necessary to be knowledgeable. We urge you to become familiar with general resources and policies that pertain to graduate education. The UW-Madison homepage provides access to many sources of information, including the Timetable. The Graduate School website carries many publications and bulletins. The Graduate Office in this department (Room 7195) remains your best source for answers to specific questions regarding graduation requirements (including foreign language requirements, exam dates and procedures, fellowship deadlines, formal admission to candidacy, dissertation filing, etc.) For information about TA contracts, teaching assignments, and teaching schedules, consult the Associate Chair’s office (Room 6199). The Main Office (Room 7187) is a source for equipment, office supplies, directories, etc.

Faculty Mentor:

Upon admission to the program, you will be assigned a faculty mentor who will normally serve in that
capacity until you are admitted to candidacy. After that, your dissertation director will become your
mentor. Your mentor will help to guide you in your professional development and you should be in
frequent contact with that person. Among topics for discussion are academic progress, minor selection, timing and preparation of prelims portfolio, professional activity and the like. Whenever you
have questions or concerns, your mentor is the first person to consult. Your dissertation director will
be your primary aide during the job search.

What you can expect from your faculty mentor:

  • Your faculty mentor will meet with you at least a couple of times in your first semester.

Each semester after that, your faculty mentor will schedule a 30-minute mentoring meeting with you to explore a wide range of topics. This meeting will be scheduled around the time that you need to select courses for the following semester so course selection will be one of those topics.

  • Your faculty mentor will help you select a minor that supports your identity and future plans as a
    teacher-scholar.

  • Your faculty mentor will help you to decide on the timing of your prelims.

  • Your faculty mentor will be a sounding board as you design a prelim question and reading list.

  • Your faculty mentor will be a sounding board as you prepare prelim essays.

Of course, other faculty members are always available too for consultation. However, your mentor is there to be your main guide until you have selected a dissertation director.

Graduate Advisor

The grad advisor is the clearinghouse for course registration and for tracking your formal progress through the program. You will be notified at the start of each registration period when it is time to schedule an appointment with the area advisor. When necessary, the grad advisor superauthorizes you into the English Department courses that you choose and makes sure that you are meeting requirements and timetables. For specific questions about the program or to review your formal record, consult the area advisor. The area advisor also coordinates aspects of the qualifying exam, which in CompRhet is a Prelims Portfolio. For technical questions concerning umbrella regulations of the department or the Graduate School, the Graduate Division remains the last word.

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Program Handbook

The UW-Madison Ph.D. in Composition & Rhetoric is an advanced research degree requiring a Master's degree for admission. The program is designed to prepare candidates to do scholarly and pedagogical work of a high order.

The Ph.D. degree is conferred by the University of Wisconsin-Madison after a minimum of three years of study beyond the Bachelor's degree. At least one half of the residence credit required for this degree must be earned on the Madison campus. Students should consult the Graduate School Catalog regarding residence credit, which is different from the degree requirements described in this document (for example, as the Graduate Bulletin states, "Each candidate must spend at least one continuous academic year beyond the master's level as a full-time graduate student"). Questions regarding residence are to be taken to the Graduate School, the only authority on the subject.

Overall graduate study moves from general knowledge of the field to specialized preparation and research capability. General preparation occurs in prereqs and coursework and culminates in approval of the prelims portfolio (written and oral). Specialized preparation focuses on the dissertation and coursework supporting it, including minor and research methods courses (tool requirement). While these phases occur in sequence, they should be seen as independent forms of preparation. Each will engage you in different kinds of intellectual challenge. Coursework gives you background and helps you to experiment with a variety of topics, perspectives, approaches, and skills. Reading for your portfolio gives you theoretical and historical breadth and depth for future research and teaching and helps you to reinterpret your coursework within broader traditions and scholarly debates. With the dissertation you specialize in a project that captures your strongest interest and enables you to make a timely contribution to scholarship in the field.

Graduate students’ teaching experience follows a similar pattern of development. In your first year as a teaching assistant in English 100, you will receive extensive training and mentoring as you assist instruction in the largest introductory composition course taught in the College of Letters & Science. Your subsequent work as an instructor in English 201 (Intermediate Composition) will provide you the opportunity and support to discover your teaching style and reflect on a philosophy. In addition, Wisconsin graduate students frequently work in the highly respected tutorial Writing Center, which serves the entire University. Beyond these experiences, many professional opportunities exist for work as administrative assistants in composition courses and numerous campus writing programs.

 

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Coursework within the program is designed to offer you a balanced background in rhetorical theory, history, and criticism; contemporary composition theory; discourse analysis; literacy; and research methods. We offer courses in a regular, rotating sequence, two courses each semester; all courses are available at least once in a two-year period. Within the first four semesters of your program, you are expected to take six CompRhet courses plus courses in research methods. Typically, you will find the following courses offered in the following sequence:

Fall

English 700 Introd. to Composition and Rhetoric (available every year)
English 701 Writing and Learning (Some course content)
English 704 Classical Rhetoric (Intellectual Sources for Contemp Composition Theory I)

Spring

English 703 Res. Methods in Writing & Rhetoric (tool requirement course)
English 706 Special Topics in Rhetoric
English 900 Special Topics in Language and Composition Theory
English 710 Discourse Analysis (available every year) (Course Description)

Fall

English 702 Perspectives on Literacy (Fall 2007)
English 705 Modern Rhetoric (Intellectual Sources for Contemp Composition Theory II)

Spring

English 722 Composition Theory and Critical Theory (Spring 2007 syllabus)
English 706 OR English 900

English 799 (Directed Reading). English 799 (Directed Reading) is for specialized, not foundational coursework, and may be appropriate as either a minor course or a course used to satisfy the tool requirement. Students may take English 799 as their sixth major course only with the agreement of the faculty sponsor and the Graduate Advisor.

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In addition to major course work, you are required to take a four-course minor. Depending on your research direction, a distributed external minor (four courses taken in at least two different departments) may be in order. Alternatively, you may choose an internal minor in literature or English language and linguistics or an external minor in an array of departments and programs. You should consult the faculty, especially your faculty mentor, as you make your decision. The minor traditionally is meant to enhance your preparation for conducting dissertation research so you should think about it in that respect. At the same time, the minor also, more broadly, may help you to define yourself professionally. For instance, if you are interested in preparing for a generalist career in a teaching institution, a literature minor may be attractive. If you are interested in defining yourself principally as a rhetorician, then a minor in Communication Arts may make the most sense. Or you may want to focus on literacy by taking complementary courses in the School of Education. Minors through programs such as Women’s Studies, Afro American Studies, or cultural geography may be appropriate.

Departments vary in their minor requirements–some require that you take specific courses; others don’t. It is a good idea to visit the graduate advisors in any department or program in which you are considering doing a minor and become familiar with their policies. It is also important to know in advance when the courses that interest you will be offered so that you can plan your schedule accordingly. Because a representative from your minor traditionally sits as the outside reader on your dissertation committee, it is a good idea to develop a good working relationship with at least one of the faculty members you encounter during minor coursework.

Usually four courses (12 credits) are to be chosen by the student and the minor advisor in consultation with the student's advisor. Although superior work in these courses is usually deemed sufficient to satisfy the requirement, formal examination in the minor remains at the discretion of the minor department. A student must obtain permission from his or her advisor to exercise the Minor Option B (for which, see the Graduate School Bulletin) and must have at least a 3.00 average in the four courses. The minor requirement need not be completed before taking the preliminary examination, but the "minor agreement form" must be on file with the Graduate School before taking prelims.

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Ordinarily students who are also teaching assistants enroll in two courses per semester. We do not recommend a higher course load. If you find yourself with extra time, it can be profitably spent reading from the standing reading lists.

Ordinarily students who are also teaching assistants enroll in two courses per semester. We do not recommend a higher course load. If you find yourself with extra time, it can be profitably spent reading from the standing reading lists.

A. Credit Enrollment

A normally enrolled student must carry a full graduate course load, 8-12 credits (or 6-8 credits if the student is a teaching assistant teaching 44% or more of full_time, the maximum number of credits varying according to the teaching load), until the English Course Requirements (B) have been completed. Students who have satisfied the Graduate School's full-time semester requirement, may reduce their course load in the semester in which these requirements are completed, and thereafter.

A student may take English 999 (reading for prelims) for the first time in the semester in which that student is completing the English Course Requirements (B). Until the English Course Requirements have been completed, a student must obtain permission from the Graduate Committee in order to take English 799 (independent reading) and may take it only on a graded basis (rather than S/U).

B. Course Requirements

All course requirements must have been completed with grades of B or better before the student takes the preliminary examination.

Six courses must be taken in the Composition and Rhetoric Area. One of these courses may be English 703, Research Methods.

C. Grades

In all post-Master's courses taken at UW-Madison, a normally enrolled student in the Ph.D. program must maintain at all times at least a 3.50 G.P.A. in English courses and an overall G.P.A. of at least 3.25, and a G.P.A. each semester of at least 3.00. (In computing the G.P.A., an Incomplete will be counted as a B. The grade of P--for Progress--will be treated as a B in any course except English 990. The grade of S will not be counted in computing the G.P.A.) A student who fails to meet this requirement will be placed on Departmental Probation (see Section I below). It should be noted that a grade of BC or lower cannot be used to meet an English Course Requirement.

Incompletes

Incompletes will be allowed only in extraordinary circumstances, and they must be removed within eight weeks of the following semester of registration. If they are not removed within that time, they will revert to a failure unless special dispensation is granted by the Director of Graduate Studies. At no time may a student have more than six credits of Incompletes. The preliminary examination may not be taken by a student who has an Incomplete.

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In addition to demonstrating at least an adequate competence in one foreign language, students must have advanced proficiency in research methods. Ordinarily, this requirement is fulfilled by taking two courses that focus explicitly on the problems and practice of research. English 703 (Research Methods) counts toward fulfillment of the tool requirement. Students can go on to complete this requirement by taking an independent study course with a CompRhet faculty member assisting that faculty member with ongoing research. As an alternative, an array of qualitative and quantitative research methods courses offered in other programs and departments also can fulfill this requirement. Normally, all tool requirements will be met before admission to candidacy.

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The foreign language requirement may be satisfied by:

  • Having completed four semesters of college-level work in the language within the previous five years, with no grade lower than B

  • Having completing a graduate degree elsewhere and using the previous certification in one foreign language granted for that degree by a United States, Canadian, or British university, after completing two semesters here as a normal enrolled student with a minimum GPA of 3.5 in English courses

  • using his or her native language when it is something other than English

  • Passing the examination administered either by the Educational Testing Service with a score of 520 or higher

  • Passing a translation test administered by a UW-Madison department designated for this purpose by the Department of English

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The Graduate School requires that you take a minimum of 32 credits in order to qualify for a UW-Madison degree. You also are required to be continually enrolled while pursuing your degree. To help students meet the 32-credit rule and stay enrolled during periods when you may not be taking regular courses, the English Department provides credit slots:

  • English 999 (Independent Reading) to be taken during the period in which you complete your prelims portfolio.

  • English 990 (Research in English), taken during the period in which you are writing your dissertation.

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Current Prelims Questions here!

Prelims occurs on the cusp of shifting from general to specialized preparation and, in CompRhet, takes the form of a portfolio rather than the more usual sit-down exam. You are eligible to submit your prelims portfolio only after you have first completed all major coursework and either the tool requirement or the foreign language requirement; the minor and the tool or language foreign requirement, which ever is not complete before prelims, may be completed after prelims.

Some students choose to submit their prelims portfolio at the end of the second year, when CompRhet coursework is fresh in the mind. Other students prefer the end of the third year after all coursework, including minor coursework, is complete, so that they can move directly into the dissertation without having to return to the classroom.

Portfolio Contents

1) 3-page introductory essay to be written as the last step in submitting the portfolio, discussing:

  • Your strengths, weaknesses, and progress through the program, reviewing teaching, writing, research
  • Important themes cutting across contents of the portfolio
  • Future directions and professional aims

2) Your best paper: One scholarly essay of seminar or publication quality; may be a revised paper from CompRhet coursework and seminars that exemplifies your writing and research ability.

3) Documentation of successful teaching

  • 1-2 page statement of your teaching philosophy
  • 2 documents from teaching, e.g., syllabus, paper assignment, videotape
  • Complete set of student evaluations from one course

4) Two 4,000-6,000 word (plus bibliographies) take home essays:

  • One written in response to one of two faculty questions posted each year on May 15 (using the Core List) and
  • Another essay written in response to a question that each student will work out in consultation with area faculty. The student-question essay must be broadly enough focused as to situate the problems and issues it raises in the field; it is to be more comprehensive than the student's dissertation project. This essay will be based on the individual student's list of 40 readings. Students must identify the faculty question they will answer and negotiate the question of their own no later than 6 months in advance of turning in their essays. Students must secure final approval of their own question and accompanying reading list no later than 3 months before submission of the portfolio.

Reading Lists

  • Core list of 40 items (titles, scholars). List will be common to all students in the program and provided by the faculty
  • Standing prelims reading lists: Individual list of 40 items tailored to address the questions students choose to answer. You will create your own list, in addition to the core list, in consultation with faculty; You may find it useful to consult the standing prelims reading lists on a) critical theory, b) discourse, c) literacy, d) pedagogy, e) rhetoric, f) semiotics, and reading lists compiled by other students. (See appendices)
  • Reading for prelims is to be guided by both questions

Timing (use the prelims calculator)

After prelims, your portfolio is kept in the main Graduate Office. You are not permitted to photocopy it but may view it in the Graduate office in preparation for the oral. A copy will be available for your use during the oral.

Preparing Your Portfolio

By the end of your first semester you should be thinking about your portfolio, evaluating possible topics and arguments for your writing and questions, and identifying selections for your reading lists. It is never too early to begin actively organizing in your own mind the trends, debates, historical time lines, etc. that make up CompRhet. A successful portfolio requires you not only to display knowledge of particular texts but also to marshal groups of texts to advance sophisticated arguments or positions. You must read actively and critically. Your mentor is a good person to converse with about titles you are reading or issues or questions whose patterns you can discern in the literature. You will also want to touch base with your other professors to discuss works they are most familiar with. Keeping up with journals in the field can show you how scholarship is used to address issues and controversies. Be thorough. It always pays off.

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Normally, the oral examination is administered by all members of the CompRhet faculty. You must receive at least a marginal pass on your portfolio before proceeding to the oral examination. If you receive a marginal pass on the portfolio, you must receive at least a grade of pass in the oral in order to pass the overall exam (i.e., two marginal passes equal a failure).

The oral will be a discussion of your portfolio, in which you will elaborate upon and defend your written work in response to faculty questions. You will be invited first to introduce your portfolio by recounting its development. Then the faculty takes up further questioning.It is your responsibility to arrange the date and time of the oral according to everyone’s availability and to schedule a meeting room with the program assistant in the Graduate Division. To enjoy the salary benefits that accompany dissertator status, it is necessary to schedule the oral prior to the official start of the semester in which you desire that status.

Failure to pass the exam by August or January before your seventh semester will be grounds for academic probation. If necessary, you have one additional semester to retake the exam and clear the probation.

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Test

When do you want to submit your portfolio (mm/dd/yyyy)?

Due date for (a) your selection of the faculty question you will write on: and (b) negotiate with faculty your own question:

Due date for your reading list: . Final approval of your list and question no later than:

Due date for your portfolio: No later than

Oral defense will occur no later than

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This is a formal step in the graduate degree process and must be completed by the end of your sixth semester. Admission to candidacy occurs when you have successfully completed:

  • All major coursework

  • Both foreign language and tool requirements, and

  • The prelims portfolio requirement

If you have not completed your minor, you must also declare one and have it approved by signature of the grad advisor. ABD [all but dissertation] status, which brings you a raise in your TA stipend, requires paperwork. Keep in good contact with the Graduate Division during this phase. Students not admitted to candidacy by the end of their 6th semester will be placed on probation.

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Dissertation Proposal

Within six months after you have finished course work, you will be expected to have completed a draft of your dissertation proposal and defend it at a conference with your five-member dissertation committee (see more below). Proposals generally range from 12-30 pages plus a bibliography. Your dissertation director will be your main guide in formulating a dissertation project and drafting a proposal. You must arrange the proposal defense by contacting committee members and finding a two-hour time period when all can meet. You also need to secure a meeting room and contact the Graduate Office Coordinator in advance to prepare the necessary paper work, which you should bring with you to the defense. Following a successful defense, the dissertation committee will sign their approval of the proposal and you can put in on file in the Graduate Division.
The quality of your dissertation project–along with the quality of your teaching record–is perhaps the most important factor in how you will fare on the job market. The best projects are those that are sensitive to their moment in the field, ones that proceed from a knowledge of the past, a sense of the significance of the present, and a vision of the future direction of the field. While our individual life circumstances often draw us to particular kinds of projects, dissertations should have a public significance within the field of CompRhet and be approached with that significance in mind. Thinking about the parts of the field with which you most want to affiliate–the conversations you want to be in, the audiences you seek, the kinds of things you want to be reading and doing–all should figure into the search for a dissertation question. Dissertations also need a realistic scope: you should be able to complete your thesis in a year or two. It should also employ methods with which you have had some earlier preparation and, ideally, experience.

Dissertation Committee

Your dissertation committee will consist of a minimum of 5 faculty members (four total from the English department), three of those from Composition and Rhetoric and one (or more) from another department (generally, a representative of your minor). If you are doing an internal minor, your “outside” readers may come from that program.

You will need to work out with your director a procedure for sharing your work with the wider dissertation committee. Your director needs to be the first pair of eyes and may approve drafts of chapters to be circulated among other faculty members. Some directors and students prefer that an entire draft be completed before circulating it to other readers. In other cases, all committee members play ongoing and active consulting roles. It is up to you to reach an understanding with your director and committee members about their roles.

Dissertation Defense

It is the custom of this area to hold the dissertation defense only after a draft of the thesis is finished. It is your responsibility, in consultation with your director, to schedule a time and place for the defense according to everyone’s availability. As a courtesy, all dissertation committee members should have a copy of your dissertation one month prior to the defense. Normally, some revisions are requested as an outcome of the defense.

It is important to be in good communication with the Graduate Division as completion of the dissertation nears, as there are forms to fill out and procedures to follow. Also, be sure you are familiar with Graduate School regulations for formatting and delivering the thesis to the Graduate School. You must make an appointment ahead of time to be “signed off” for your degree.

No Days Without Lines

If your dissertation is not completed within five years after the admission to candidacy, the Graduate School requires that you submit a new portfolio in order to complete the degree. Although the English Department makes exceptions to this rule, we expect you to finish the dissertation much sooner than the five-year limit.

During the dissertation phase of your program, the project must be your number one priority. While the demands of teaching, service, and life in general provide a constant stream of distractions, it is best to start every day with the dissertation. Three to five hours of work daily will ensure a timely completion. As Donald Murray used to say, “Never a day without a line!”

Dissertator Status

While you are writing your dissertation, you need to be continually enrolled in English 990 (Research in English). If you do not sign up for these credits each semester by the registration deadline, you will face a stiff financial penalty when you try to re-enroll. You must always be enrolled during the semester in which you plan to defend your dissertation–even if that means the summer. Stay in good contact with the Graduate Office about these enrollment procedures.

Useful links:

A Guide to Preparing Your Doctoral Dissertation
The Three Ds: Deadlines, Defending, and Depositing Your PhD Dissertation

Dissertation Fellowships

The English Department offers some dissertation fellowships for which you are eligible. The deadline for application is January 8. If you plan to apply for a fellowship, you will need to have an approved dissertation proposal prior to that date.

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Program Coursework Tracking Sheet

Year 1:

Complete 3-4 Comp/Rhet courses, including 703 if offered. Fulfill language requirement and any make-up prerequisites. Begin reading for the prelim.

Year 2:

Complete 2-3 Comp/Rhet courses, including 703 if offered and another tool requirement course. Decide on sublists for prelim. Prepare and read for the portfolio.

Year 2: Summer (optional).

Take prelims in August or January. Be admitted to candidacy.

Year 3:

Complete four course minor.

Year 3: Summer (required).

Gain approval of prelims portfolio. Be admitted to candidacy.

Year 4:

Dissertation proposal defense held sometime between November and February (within 6 months of passing prelims). Complete approximately one half of dissertation by the end of the summer.

Year 5

Apply for jobs beginning in October. Complete dissertation.

By Graduate School regulations, every student must complete the dissertation within five calendar years after admission to candidacy. Where necessary, the student, joined by the dissertation director and the Director of Graduate Studies, may appeal for an extension beyond five years, with a rationale for the appeal and a proposed absolute deadline for completion. (rev. 9/2004)

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Anyone taking the prelim through August 2009 has the option of using the old core list or the new core list. The new list becomes effective solely in September 2009.


Core List 6/23/08 new core list
Core List 3/11/05
Critical Theory
Discourse
Literacy
Pedagogy
Rhetoric
Semiotics


Core List
Revised 6/23/2008

Aristotle. (1991). On rhetoric: A theory of civic discourse. Trans. G. A. Kennedy. Oxford University Press

Austin, J.L. (1975). How to do things with words. 2nd ed. Harvard University Press.

Bakhtin, M. M. (1982). Dialogic imagination. University of Texas Press.

Barton E., & Stygall, G. (Eds.) (2002). Discourse studies in composition. Hampton Press.

Berlin, J. (2003). Rhetorics, poetics and cultures. Parlor Press.

Booth W. (1994). Modern dogma and the rhetoric of assent. University of Notre Dame Press.

Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. University of California Press.

Canagarajah, S. (1999). . Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching. Oxford University Press.

Cicero. (2001). On the ideal orator (De Oratore). Trans. & Ed., James M. May & Jakob Wisse. Oxford University Press.

Either:
Cole, T. (1991). The origins of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Johns Hopkins University Press,
Or
Schiappa, E. (1999). The beginnings of rhetorical theory in classical Greece. Yale University Press.

Connors, R. (1997). Composition-rhetoric: Backgrounds, theory, and pedagogy. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Cushman, E., Kintgen, G., Kroll, B., & Rose, M. et al. (2001). Literacy: A critical sourcebook. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.

Davis, D. (2000). Breaking up (at) totality. Southern Illinois University Press.

Either:
Delpit, L. (2006). Other people’s children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. Updated ed. New Press.
Or
hooks, bell (1994) Teaching to transgress. Education as the practice of freedom. Routledge

Either:
Derrida, J. (1976) Of grammatology. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Or
Foucault, M. (1971). The order of things. Vintage Books.

Elbow, P. (1998). Writing without teachers. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press.

Emig, J. (1971). The composing processes of twelfth graders. Urbana, IL: NCTE.

Faigley, L. (1992). Fragments of rationality. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Freire, P. (1962). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Trans. M. Bergman Ramos. New York: Seabury.
Or Pedagogy of hope (1994). Continuum

Either:
Geisler, C. (1994). Academic literacy and the nature of expertise: Reading, writing, and knowing in academic philosophy. Lawrence Erlbaum
OR
Prior, P. (1998). Writing/disciplinarity: A sociohistoric account of literate activity in the academy. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Gee, J.P. (2008). Social linguistics and literacies. 3rd ed. Routledge.

Gillespie, P. , Gillam, A. et al. (2002). Writing center research. Lawrence Erlbuam, 2002.

Gilyard, K. (1991). Voices of the self. Wayne State University Press, 1991.

Glenn, C. (1997). Rhetoric retold: Regendering the tradition. Southern Illinois University Press.

Halliday, M. A. K. (1978). Language as social semiotic: The social interpretation of language and meaning. University Park Press.

Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge University Press.

Either:
Herrington, Anne J., and Curtis, M.(2000). Persons in process: Four stories of writing and personal development in college. National Council of Teachers of English.
Or
Sternglass, M. (1997). Time to know them. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Hollis, K. (2004). Liberating voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr summer school for women workers. Southern Illinois University Press.

Kinneavy, J. (1971). Theory of discourse. Prentice-Hall.

Kirsch et al. (2003). Feminism and composition: A critical sourcebook. Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the virtual: Movement, affect, sensation. Duke University Press.

Matsuda, P. et al. (2006). Second-language writing in the composition classroom: A critical sourcebook. St. Martin’s.

Miller, Thomas. (1997). The formation of college English: Rhetoric and belles lettres in the British cultural provinces. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Ohmann, R. (1976). English in America: A radical view of the profession. Oxford University Press.

Perelman, C. (1982). Realm of rhetoric. University of Notre Dame Press.

Plato. (1998). Gorgias. Trans. R. Waterfield. Oxford University Press. & Phaderus. Trans. J. H. Nichols. Cornell University Press.

Pratt, M.L. (1991). Arts of the contact zone. Profession 91, 33-40. MLA.

Ratcliffe, K. (2006). Rhetorical listening: Identification, gender, whiteness. Southern Illinois University Press.

Rose, M. (1989). Lives on the boundary. Free Press.

Royster, J. J. (2000). Traces of a stream: Literacy and social change among African American women. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Schell, E. & Stock, P.L. (2001). Moving a mountain: Transforming the role of contingent faculty in composition and higher education. NCTE.

Scribner, S. & Cole, M. (1981). The psychology of literacy. Harvard University Press.

Selber, S. (2004). Multiliteracies for a digital age. Southern Illinois University Press.

Shaughnessy, M. (1977). Errors and expectations. Oxford University Press.

Smitherman, G. (1977). Talkin and testifyin: The language of Black America. Wayne State University Press.

Street, Brian.(2001). Literacy and development: Ethnographic perspectives. Routledge.

Students’ right to their own language. (1974). College Composition and Communication, 25, 3, 1-18.

Vickers B. (1988). In defence of rhetoric. Oxford University Press.

Villanueva, V., Jr. (Ed.) (2003). Cross-talk in comp theory. 2nd ed. NCTE.

Villanueva, V., Jr. (2003). Bootstraps: From an American academic of color. NCTE.

Vitanza, V. (1991). Three countertheses: Or a critical in(ter)vention into composition theories and pedagogies. In Contending with words. (Eds. P. Harkin & J. Schilb. Modern Language Association.

Vygotsky, L. (1962). Thought and language. MIT Press; and Mind in society. (1978). Harvard University Press.


Core List
Revised 3/11/05

Aristotle. (1991). On rhetoric: A theory of civic discourse. Trans. G. A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press

Bakhtin, M. M. (1986). Speech genres and other late essays. Trans., V. W. McGee. Ed. C. Emerson & M. Holquist. Austin:University of Texas Press.

Barton E., & Stygall, G. (Eds.) (2002). Discourse studies in composition. Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press.

Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. University of California Press.

Canagarajah, Suresh. Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Cicero. (2001). On the ideal orator (De Oratore). Trans. & Ed., James M. May & Jakob Wisse. New York: Oxford University Press.

Either:
Cole, T. (1991). The origins of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Johns Hopkins University Press, or
Schiappa, E. (1999). The beginnings of rhetorical theory in classical Greece. Yale University Press.

Connors, R. (1997). Composition-rhetoric: Backgrounds, theory, and pedagogy. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Crosswhite, J. (1996). The rhetoric of reason: Writing and the attractions of argument. University of Wisconsin Press.

Cushman, E., Kintgen, G., Kroll, B., & Rose, M. et al. (2001). Literacy: A critical sourcebook. Boston:Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.

Delpit, L. (1986). Skills and other dilemmas of a progressive black educator. Harvard Educational Review, 56, 379-385.

Dixon, J. (1967). Growth through English. London: Oxford University Press.

Elbow, P. (1986). Writing without teachers. New York: Oxford.

Emig, J. (1971). The composing processes of twelfth graders. Urbana, IL: NCTE.

Freire, P. (1962). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Trans. M. Bergman Ramos. New York: Seabury.

Either:

Geisler, C. (1994). Academic literacy and the nature of expertise: Reading, writing, and knowing in academic philosophy. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

OR

Prior, P. (1998). Writing/disciplinarity: A sociohistoric account of literate activity in the academy. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence

Gilyard, K. (1999). Race, rhetoric, and composition. Heinemann.

Glenn, C. (1997). Rhetoric retold: Regendering the tradition. Southern Illinois University Press.

Halliday, M. A. K. (1978). Language as social semiotic: The social interpretation of language and meaning. Baltimore: University Park Press.

Hawisher, G. & Selfe, C. (Eds.) (1999). Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies. Logan: Utah State University Press.

Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge University Press.

Herrington, Anne J., and Curtis, M.(2000). Persons in process: Four stories of writing and personal development in college. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

hooks, bell (1994) Teaching to transgress. Education as the practice of freedom. London: Routledge.

Jarratt, S. C. (1991). Rereading the sophists: Classical rhetoric refigured. Southern Illinois University Press.

Jarratt, S. C. & Worsham, L. (Eds.) (1998). Feminism and composition studies. New York: MLA Press.

Johnson, N. (1991). Nineteenth-century rhetoric in North America. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Kennedy, G. (1999). Classical rhetoric and its Christian and secular traditions. (Second Edition). University of North Carolina Press.

Miller, Thomas. (1997). The formation of college English: Rhetoric and belles lettres in the British cultural provinces. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Ohmann, R. (1976). English in America: A radical view of the profession. New York: Oxford University Press.

Perelman, C., & Olbrechts-Tyteca, L. (1969). The new rhetoric: A treatise on argumentation. Trans. J. Wilkinson & P. Weaver. University of Notre Dame Press.

Plato. (1952). Gorgias. Trans. W. C. Helmbold. New York: Macmillan. And (1952). Phaedrus. Trans. R. Hackforth. Cambridge University Press.

Ritchie, J. & Ronald, K. (2001). Available means: An anthology of women's rhetoric(s). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Royster, Jacqueline Jones. Traces of a stream: Literacy and social change among African American women. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Scribner, S. & Cole, M. (1981). The Psychology of Literacy. Harvard University Press

Shaughnessy, M. (1977). Errors and expectations. London: Oxford University Press.

Smitherman, G. (1977). Talkin and testifyin: The language of Black America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Street, Brian.(2001). Literacy and development: Ethnographic perspectives. New York: Routledge.

Villanueva, V., Jr. (Ed.) (1997). Cross-talk in comp theory. Urbana, IL: NCTE.

Villanueva, V., Jr. (2003). Bootstraps: From an American academic of color. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English.

Vygotsky, L. (1962). Thought and language. MIT Press; and Mind in society. (1978). Harvard University Press.

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a) Critical Theory

Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (in Lenin and Philosophy)

Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice

Bakhtin, Dialogic Imagination; Art and Answerability

Barthes, S/Z

Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator" (in Illuminations)

Butler, Bodies that Matter

Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

De Man, Blindness and Insight, Resistance to Theory

Derrida, The Post Card

Eco, The Role of the Reader

Eagleton, Walter Benjamin

Fish, Doing what comes Naturally

Foucault, Language, Countermemory, Practice

Gadamer, Truth and Method

Gates, Figures in Black

Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture

Genette, Figures of Literary Discourse

Gross, The Rhetoric of Science

Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Harding, "Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What is Strong Objectivity?" (in Centennial Review [fall 1992]: 437-70)

Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art" (in Poetry, Language, Thought)

Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, Women

hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Hymes, The Ethnography of Speaking

Irigaray, The Speculum of the Other Woman

Iser, The Implied Reader

Jauss, Towards an Aesthetics of Reception

Jakobson, "Two Aspects of Language...." (in On Language)

Johnson, The Critical Difference, "Writing" (in Lentricchia, Critical Terms for Literary Study)

Kant, "Analytic of the Sublime" (in Crtique of Judgment)

Kristeva, Desire in Language, "Psychoanalysis and the Polis" (in The Kristeva Reader)

Lacan, Ecrits

Lemon and Reis (eds.), Russian Formalism

Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Marks and de Courtivron, New French Feminisms

Medvedev, The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship

Miller, S. (1989). Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer. Southern Illinois UP.

Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other

Neel, Plato, Derrida, and Writing

Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge

Ong, The Presence of the Word

Phelps, Composition as a Human Science

Pratt, Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity

Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine

Simons, The Rhetorical Turn

White, Metahistory

Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Worsham, "The Question Concerning Invention: Hermeneutics and the Genesis of Writing" (in Pre/Text 8 [1987]: 197-244)

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b) Discourse

Atkinson, J. M., Heritage, J. (Eds.). (1984). Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Barton, E. and Stygall, G. (Eds.). (2001). Discourse studies in composition. Hampton Press.

Biber, D. (1988). Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cazden, C. (1988). Classroom discourse: The language of teaching and learning. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Chafe, W. (1998). Language and the flow of thought. In M. Tomasello (Ed.), The new psychology of language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure ( 93- 112). Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.

Coulthard, M. (1977). An introduction to discourse analysis. London: Longman.

Drew, P., Heritage, J. (Eds.). (1992) Talk at work: Interaction in institutional settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Duranti, A. (1994). From grammar to politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Engeström, Y., & Middletown, D. (1996). Cognition and communication at work. Cambridge & New York : Cambridge University Press.

Garfinkel, H. (1967). Studies in ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

Gee, J. (1999). An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method. New York: Routledge.

Goodwin, M. H. (1990). He-said-she-said: Talk as social organization among Black children. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Grice, H. P. (1975 [1967]). Logic and conversation. In P. Cole & J. L. Morgan (Eds.), Syntax and semantics 3: Speech acts ( 41-58). New York: Academic Press.

Gumperz, J. (1982). Discourse strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gumperz, J., & Hymes, D. (Eds). (1972) Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication. New York: Rinehart & Winston

Halliday, M.A.K. & Hasan, R. (1976). Cohesion in English. London: Longman.

Heath, C., & Luff, P. (2000). Documents and professional practice: 'Bad' organizational reasons for 'good' clinical records. In C. Heath & P. Luff (Eds.) Technology in action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Heritage, J. (1984a). Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press

Hopper, P. (1998). Emergent grammar. In M. Tomasello (Ed.), The new psychology of language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure ( 67-92). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Jefferson, G. (1978a). Sequential aspects of story telling in conversation. In J. N. Schenkein (Ed.), Studies in the organization of conversational interaction ( 213-48). New York: Academic Press.

Kitzinger, C. (2000). 'Doing feminist conversation analysis.' Feminism and Psychology, 10, 163-93.

Markova, I., & Foppa, K. (1990). The dynamics of dialogue. New York: Harvester Wheat sheaf.

Markova, I., & Foppa, K. (1991). Asymmetries in dialogue. Savage, MD: Barnes & Noble Books.

Markova, I., Graumann, C., & Foppa, K. (1995). Mutualities in dialogue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mehan, H. (1979). Learning lessons: Social organization in the classroom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Moerman, M. (1988). Talking culture: Ethnography and conversation analysis. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press.

Ochs, E. (1988). Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ochs, E., Schegloff, E., Thompson, S. (Eds.). (1996). Interaction and grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Pennycook, A. (2001). Critical applied linguistics: A critical introduction. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.

Rommetveit, R. (1974). On message structure: A framework for the study of language and communication. London: Wiley.

Sacks, H., Schegloff, E., & Jefferson, G. (1978). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation. In J. Schenkein (Ed.), Studies in the organization of conversational interaction ( 7-55). New York: Academic Press.

Schegloff, E. (1982). Discourse as an interactional achievement: some uses of "uh huh" and other things that come between sentences. In D. Tannen (Ed.), Analyzing discourse: Text and talk (71-93). (Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Schegloff, E. (1986). The routine as achievement, Human Studies, 9, 111-52.

Schegloff, E. (1988a). Goffman and the analysis of conversation. In P. Drew & A. Wootton (Eds.), Erving Goffman: Exploring the interaction order (89-135). Cambridge: Polity Press.

Schegloff, E. (1993). Reflections on quantification in the study of conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 26, 99-128

Schegloff, E., & Sacks, H. (1973) Opening up closings, Semiotica, 8, 289-327.

Searle, J. (1969). Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stubbs, M. (1983). Discourse analysis: The sociolinguistic analysis of natural language. Oxford: B. Blackwell.

van Dijk, Teun (Ed.) 1997. Discourse Studies. Volumes 1-2. London: Sage. 1 Discourse as Structure and Function 2 Discourse as Social Interaction Wold, A. H. (Ed.), The dialogical alternative: Towards a theory of language and mind. Oslo: The University Press in cooperation with Oxford University Press, London.

Zuengler, J. And J. Mori (eds.) (2002). Microanalysis of classroom discourse: A critical consideration of methods. Special issue of Applied Linguistics 23(3), Fall.

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c) Literacy

Barton, David. Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 1994.

Boone, Elizabeth and Walter Mignolo, Eds. Writing Without Words. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Sarah Beck and Leslie Olah (Eds.) Perspectives on Language and Literacy: Beyond the Here and Now. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 2001.

Bernstein, Basil. Class, Codes and Control, Volume 1. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971.

Besnier, Niko. Literacy, Emotion and Authority. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Boyarin, Jonathan, ed. The Ethnography of Reading. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1993.

Canagarajah, Suresh. Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Cavallo, Gugliemo and Roger Chartier. A History of Reading in the West. Oxford: Polity Press, 1999.

Cintron, Ralph. Angels' Town. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.

Clancy, Michael. From Memory to Written Record. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Cook-Gumperz, Jenny. The Social Construction of Literacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Collins, James. "Literacy and Literacies." Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995): 75- 93.

Cope, Bill & Mary Kalantzas, Ed. Multiliteracies. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Cornelius, Janet. 'When I Can Read My Title Clear': Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Dyson, Anne Haas. Writing Superheroes. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.

Di Sessa, Andrea A. Changing Minds: Computers, Learning and Literacy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Farr, Marcia. "Essayist Literacy and Other Verbal Peformances." Written Communication 8 (1993): 4-38.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of Freedom. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.

Freire, Paulo and Donaldo Macedo. Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. South Hadley, Mass: Bergin and Garvey, 1987.

Gere, Anne. Intimate Practices. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Gere, Anne. "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition." College Composition and Communication 45 (1996): 75-92.

Gillmore, William J. Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Goelman, Hillel, et al. Awakening to Literacy. Exeter, NH: Heinemann, 1982.

Gonzalez, Norma and Luis Moll. "Funds of Knowledge for Teaching in Latino Households." Urban Education, 29 (19950: 443-470.

Goody, Jack. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Goody, Jack. "Technologies of the Intellect." The Power of the Written Tradition. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, 2000.

Graff, Harvey J. The Literacy Myth. New York: Academic Press, 1979.

Hall, David. Cultures of Print. University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Harris, Willaim V. Ancient Literacy. Harvard University Press, 1989.

Havelock, Eric. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Herrington, Anne and Marie Curtis. Persons in Process. Urbana: NCTE, 2000.

Hull, Glynda, (Ed.) Changing Work: Changing Workers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Kirsch, Irwin S. et al. Adult Literacy in America. Washington, D.C.: OERI, 1993.

Lee, Carol D. and Peter Smagorinsky. Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research. New York: Cambridge, 2000.

Lepore, Jill. A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Mignolo, Walter D. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonialization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Olson, David R. The World on Paper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Purcell-Gates, Victoria. Other People's Words. Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Resnick, Daniel P. (Ed.). Literacy in Historical Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983.

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

Soltow, Lee and Edward Stevens. The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Stock, Brian. Implications of Literacy. Princeton: Princeton Univeresity Press, 1983.

Street, Brian. Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Street, Brian. Social Literacies. Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Vygotsky, Lev. Mind in Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Wagner, Daniel, Richard Venezsky and Brian Street (Eds.). Literacy: An International Handbook. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.

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d) Pedagogy

Applebee, Curriculum as conversation

Atwell, In the middle

Bartholomae & Petrosky, Facts, artifacts and counterfacts

Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics and Cultures

Brereton, The origins of composition studies in the American college, 1875-1925

Bruffee, "Collaborative learning and the conversation of mankind," CE, 46 (1984): 635- 52

Bruner, Acts of meaning

Bullock & Schuster, Politics of writing instruction

Cazden, Classroom discourse

Connors, et al. Esssays in classical rhetoric and modern discourse

Corbett and Connors, Classical rhetoric for the modern student

Crowley, Composition in the university

Dewey, Democracy and education

Dewey, The child and the curriculum

Dyson, Writing superheroes

Elbow, Everyone can write

Emig, Web of meaning

Flower, Problem solving strategies for writing

Fox, Social uses of writing

Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom

Fulkerson, Teaching the argument in writing

Kimball, Orators and philosophers: A history of the idea of liberal education

Gilligan, In a Different Voice

Gilyard, Race, rhetoric and composition

Graff, Professing literature

Grumet, Bitter Milk: Women and teaching

Herrington & Curtis, Persons in process

Hillocks, Ways of thinking, ways of teaching

hooks,Teaching to transgress

Horner and Lu, Representing the other

Horton and Freire, We make the road by walking

Kent, Post-process theory

Lave & Wenger, Situated learning

Macrorie, Telling writing

Marrou, History of education in antiquity or Clark, Rhetoric in Greco-Roman education

Mehan, Learning lessons

Moll, Vygostky and Education

Petraglia, Reconceiving writing: rethinking writing instruction

Quintilian, Institutes of oratory

Resnick, ed. Knowing, learning and instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser

Rose, Lives on the boundary

Roskelly and Ronald, Reason to believe

Shon, The reflective oractitioner

Sternglass, Time to know them Wells, Dialogic inquiry

Wertsch, The concept of activity in Soviet psychology

White, E. Teaching and assessing writing

Young, Becker & Pike, Rhetoric: Discovery and change

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e) Rhetoric

anonymous, Rhetorica ad Herrenium.

Aristotle, Poetics; Ethics; Politics; Topics.

Augustine, On Christian Doctrine

Bacon, The Advancement of Learning.

Bain, English Composition and Rhetoric (in Bizzell & Herzberg, The Rhetorical Tradition, Part Four)

Berlin, J. (1984). Writing Instruction in l9th-Century American Colleges. Southern Illinois UP.

Booth, W. (1974). Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent. U of Chicago P.

Burke, K. (1945). A Grammar of Motives. U of California P.

Cole, T. (1991). The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Johns Hopkins UP.

Covino, W. (1988). The Art of Wondering: A Revisionist Return to the History of Rhetoric. Boynton/Cook.

D'Angelo, F. (1975). . Cambridge, MA: Winthrop.

DeMan, P. (1979). Allegories of Reading. Yale UA Conceptual Theory of RhetoricP.

Eagleton, T. (1981). "A Short History of Rhetoric" in Walter Benjamin. London: Verso

Enos, T., & Brown, S. (Eds.) (1994). Professing the New Rhetorics: A Sourcebook. Prentice Hall.

Fish, S. (1989). "Rhetoric," "Change" in Doing What Comes Naturally. Duke UP.

Foss, S. Foss, K., & Trapp, R.. (1991). Contemporary perspectives on rhetoric. Waveland P.

Garver, E. (1994). Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character. U of Chicago P.

Genette, G. (1982). Figures of Literary Discourse. Columbia UP.

Gilman, S., Blair, C., & Parent, D. (Eds.). (1989). Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language. Oxford.

Glenn, C. (1997). Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition. Southern Illinois UP.

Gross, A., & Keith, W. (Eds.) (1997). Rhetorical Hermeneutics. State U of New York P.

Gross, A., & Walzer, A. (Eds.) (2000). Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric. Southern Illinois UP.

Habermas, J. (1989). Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. MIT P.

Havelock, E. (1963). Preface to Plato. Harvard UP.

Howell, W. (1956). Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700. Princeton UP.

Isocrates, Against the Sophists; Antidosis.

Kennedy. G. (1998). Comparative Rhetoric. Oxford UP.

Kerferd, G. (1981). The Sophistic Movement. Cambridge UP. or De Romilly, J. (1992). The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens. Clarendon P.

Kimball, B. (1986). Orators & philosophers: A history of the idea of liberal education. Teachers College P.

Kinneavy, J. (1971). A Theory of Discourse. Prentice-Hall.

Kitzhaber, A. (1990). Rhetoric in American Colleges, 1850-1900. Southern Methodist UP.

Lanham, R. (1976). The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance. Yale UP.

Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Lucaites, J., Condit, C., & Caudill, S. (1999). Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader. Guilford.

Mailloux, S. (1989). Rhetorical power. Cornell UP.

Marrou, H. (1956). A History of Education in Antiquity. New York: Sheed and Ward.

Miller, S. (1989). Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer. Southern Illinois UP.

Murphy, J. (1974). The Art of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages. U of California P.

Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies

Ober, J. (1989). Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens. Princeton UP.

Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory

Ramus, Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintillian; or Ong, W. J. (1958). Ramus, method, and the decay of dialogue. Harvard UP.

Richards, I. A. (1936). The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Oxford UP.

Schiappa, E. (1999). The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. Yale UP.

Seigel, J. (1968). Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism. Princeton UP.

Sidney, "An Apology for Poetry"

Sloane, T. (1997). On the Contrary: The Protocol of Traditional Rhetoric. Catholic U of America P.

Vickers, B. (1988). In Defense of Rhetoric. Clarendon.

Weaver, R. (1953). The Ethics of Rhetoric. Regnery/Gateway

Young, R., Becker, A., & Pike, K. (1970). Rhetoric: Discovery and Change. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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f) Semiotics

Definitions of the Field

Chandler, D. (2001). Semiotics: The basics. Routledge.

Benveniste, E. (1971). Problems in general linguistics. (M. E. Meek, Trans.). Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press.

Withalm, G. (1988). Depictions-reflections-perspectives. Semiotica, 69, 149-78.

Historiography/Historical Overviews

Deely, J. N. (1982). Introducing semiotic: Its history and doctrine.Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Nöth, W. (1990). Handbook of semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Morris, C. W. (1970). Foundations of the theory of signs. Chicago: University Press Semiotics Ancient through Enlightenment

Aristotle. On interpretation. (E. M. Edghill, Trans.) [On-line], Available: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/interpretation.sum.html

Dascal, M. (1987). Leibniz: Language, signs, and thought. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Eco, U., & Constantino, M. (Eds.). (1989). On the medieval theory of signs. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Locke, J. (1973). An essay concerning human understanding. London: Collins.

Ogden, C. K. & Richards, I. A. (1946). The meaning of meaning: A study of the influence of language upon thought and of the science of symbolism (8th edition, rev.). New York: Harcourt, Brace & co.

O'Mahoney, B. E. (1964). A medieval semantic. Laurentianum, 5, 448-86.

Plato. (1998) Cratylus (C. D. C. Reeve, Trans). Indianapolis: Hackett.

Poinsot, J. (1985). Tractatus de signis (J. N. Deely, Ed. and Trans.). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Vico, G. (1984). The new science (T. G. Bergin & M. H. Fish, Trans. of the 3rd edition of 1744). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Modern Semiotics

Callaghan, W. J. (1986).Charles Sanders Peirce: His general theory of signs. Semiotica, 61, 123-61.

Husserl, E. (1970). On the logic of signs. In E. Husserl, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. 12 (pp. 340-73). The Hague: Nijhoff.

Morris, C. W. (1971). Writings on the general theory of signs. The Hague: Mouton.

Peirce, C. S. (1991). Peirce on signs: Writings on semiotic (J. Hoopes, Ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Saussure, F. de. (1969). Course in general linguistics (W. Baskin, Trans.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Shannon, C. E., Weaver, W. (1949). The mathematical theory of communication. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Russian Formalism, Prague School Semiotics, and Structuralism

Eco, U. (1977). The influence of Roman Jakobson on the development of semiotics. In D. Armstrong & C. H. van Schooneveld (Eds.), Roman Jakobson: Echoes of his scholarship (pp. 39-58). Lisse: de Ridder.

Galan, F. W. (1984). Historic structures: the Prague School project, 1928-1946. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Hjelmslev, L. (1961). Prolegomena to a theory of language. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Jakobson, R. (1985). Verbal art, verbal sign, verbal time. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Jameson, F. (1972). The prison-house of language: A critical account of structuralism. Princeton: University Press.

Lemon, L.T. & Reis, M. J. (Eds. And Trans.) (1965). Russian formalist criticism; four essays. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press.

Mukarovský, J. (1978). Structure, sign, and function. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Text Semiotics and Post Structuralism

Barthes, R. (1967). Elements of semiology. London: Cape.

Derrida, J. (1976). Of grammatology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Genette, G. (1982). Figures of literary discourse. (A. Sheridan, Trans.). New York: Columbia University Press.

Greimas, A. J. & Courtés, J. (1982). Semiotics and language. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Kristeva, J. (1980). Desire in language: A semiotic approach to literature and art. New York: Columbia University Press.

Dialogism and Sociocultural Theory

Lotman, Y. M. (1990). Universe of the mind: A semiotic theory of culture. A. Shukman, Trans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Rommetveit, R. (1974). On message structure: A framework for the study of language and communication. London: Wiley.

Vološinov, V. N. (1973). Marxism and the philosophy of language. Ladislav Matejka and I. R. Titunik, trans. New York: Seminar Press.

Wertsch, J. V. (1991). Voices of the mind: A sociocultural approach to mediated action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,1991.

Astri Heen Wold (Ed.). (1992). The dialogical alternative: Towards a theory of language and mind. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.

Contemporary Semiotics and Philosophy

Eco, U. (1979). A theory of semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Langer, S. (1942). Philosophy in a new key: A study in the symbolism of reason, rite, and art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Parret, H. (1983). Semiotics and pragmatics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Sebeok, T. A. (1991). A sign is just a sign. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Todorov, T. (1983). Symbolism and interpretation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Applied Semiotics

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Kress, G. (1997). Before writing: Rethinking the paths to literacy. London: Routledge.

Medway, P. (1996). Virtual and material buildings: Construction and constructivism in architecture and writing. Written Communication, 13, 472-514.

Mertz, E., & Parmentier, R. J. (Eds.). (1985). Semiotic mediation. Orlando: Academic Press.

Schmandt-Besserat, D. (1997). How writing came about. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Witte, S. P. (1992). Context, text, intertext: Toward a constructivist semiotic of writing. Written Communication, 9, 237-308.

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