CCR601 – CCC 2/2009

Rumsey, Suzanne K. “Heritage Literacy: Adoption, Adaptation, and Alienation of Multimodal Literacy Tools.” CCC 60.3 (2009): 573-86. Print. In this article the author discusses “heritage literacy.”  Rumsey defines this term as, “an explanation of how people transfer literacy knowledge from generation to generation and how certain practices, tools, and concepts are adapted, adopted, or alienated from use, depending on the context. It is lifelong, cross-generational... Read More

CCR601 – Communication As. . . . .

Communication as … Perspectives on Theory. Minneapolis: Sage Publications, Inc, 2005. Print. Introduction:  Taking a Stand on Theory St. John, Striphas, and Shepherd I thought this was an interesting introduction.  While much of the scholarship in rhet/comp does actually engage in the “buffet” method, St. John et.al. make it a point that all theory is not created equal.  They recognize that there are a lot of different explanations about what communication is (cultural,... Read More

CCR601 – Williams, McNabb, MacDonald

Problems into PROBLEMS:  Rhetoric of Motivation Joseph Williams In the introduction, Williams makes the point that he is interested in the “substantive problem” of rhetoric – and his definition of this substantive is a little unclear.  Later in the first section, he defines exigence as “a situation that demands a rhetorical response” (3).  Williams notes that students have difficulty writing because they don’t know how to pose problems.  Second, they don’t know... Read More

Genealogy – 3rd Generation – Hawee – Miller

Genealogy Project 3rd Generation – 2nd Generation Author: Hawhee Miller, Carolyn. “Opportunity, Opportunism, and Progress: Kairos in the Rhetoric of Technology.” Argumentation 8.1 (1994): 81-96. Print. Executive Summary: Miller claims that kairos serves “as both a powerful theme within technological discourse and as an analytical concept that explains some of the suasory force by which such discourse maintains itself and its position in our culture” (81).  In... Read More

CCR601 – Genealogy – 2nd – Hawhee

Genealogy Project 2nd Generation 1.  Hawhee, Debra.  “Kairotic Encounters.”  Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention.  Ed. Janet M. Atwill and Janice M. Lauer.  Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2001.  16-35. Executive Summary: Hawhee begins her article by discussing how invention is conceived in either exterior or interior terms.  That is, invention happens when the rhetor either: a)finds things that exist in a preexistent rhetorical order or b) relies of generative subjectivity... Read More