CCR601 – FP – 2nd Gen – Anderson

Anderson, Paul V. “Simple Gifts: Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Person-Based Composition Research.” College Composition and Communication 49 1 (1998). Print. This article heralds a new investigation into the ethical obligations to “persons whose words and actions we transform into ‘data’ of our research” (63). There are multiple reasons why Anderson sees a need for this sort of work: Much of the contemporary research and literature comes from this sort... Read More

CCR601 – FP – 1st Gen – McKey and Porter

McKee, Heidi and James E. Porter. “The Ethics of Digital Writing Research: A Rhetorical Approach.” College Composition and Communication 59 4 (2008): 711. Print. Digital writing research is defined as focusing on 1) computer-generated, computer-based, or computer-delivered documents, 2)computer-based text production; and 3) the interactions of people who use computerized technologies to communicate through digital means. Rhet/Comp has an especially useful invention... Read More

CCR601 – WC – 26.4

Segal, Judy Z. “Internet Health and the 21st-Century Patient: A Rhetorical View.” Written Communication 26 4 (2009): 351-69. Print. Segal defines “internet health” as the “public use of information Web sites to facilitate decision making on matters of health and illness” Segal’s argument is that internet health – usually conceived in the rhetorical triangle – focuses only on the speaker.  Segal’s work hopes to illustrate how internet health is a complex... Read More

CCR601 – R&P 42.3

Bayer, Thora I. “Hegelian Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 203-19. Print Rhetoric is an antistrophe to dialectic (antistrophe is the “turning back” of the chorous on the audience in the traditional ancient Greek play). Kant considered dialectic the “logic of illusion” that occurs when reason takes its powers beyond experience to make claims concerning the nature of the soul, world, and God (203). Kant is responsible for banishing rhetoric from... Read More

CCR601 – CS

Goshert, Josh. “Reproductions of (il)Literacy: Gay Cultural Knowledge and First Year Composition Pedagogy.” Composition Studies 36.1 (2008): 11-28. Print. Goshert makes the argument that we, as composition teachers, are often allowing students to be assured of their “quotidian,” non-critical positions by allowing them to compose in new modalities – notably, digitally and through still photography and film.  Because students inhabit a world, and are produced... Read More