CCR601 – Textual Machinery – Kennedy

Kennedy, Krista. “Textual Machinery:  Authorial Agency and Bot-Written Texts in Wikipedia.” The Responsibilities of Rhetoric. Ed. Michelle Smith and Barbara Warnick. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2010. 303-309. Executive Summary: Kennedy discusses the notion of authorship and authorial agency in the context of theoretical and legalistic arguments about authorship in bot-driven encyclopedic texts (Wikipedia).  Theoretically speaking, if one applies both pragmatic... Read More

CCR601 – Lingua Fracta, Chapter 4

Brooke, Collin. Lingua Fracta:  Toward a Rhetoric of New Media. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2009. Chapter Four Executive Summary: In this chapter, Brooke goes over a lot of the same territory he covered in Making Room, Writing Hypertext. Here he recaps such issues as containerism, spatial practice (Lefebvre’s perceived space), and the situation of arrangement in contemporary hypertextual scholarship.  Yet, after rehashing and revising his thesis, he discusses the notion... Read More

CCR601 – Making Room, Writing Space

Brooke, Collin. “Making Room, Writing Hypertext.” JAC 19.2 (1999): 253-268. Executive Summary: In this piece, Brooke works to reclaim arrangement from hypertext theorists that have elided the term in due to the “non-linearity” of hypertextual production.  In this reclamation, Brooke employs both a time-element and a space-element to better understand the way hypertext can be arranged.   The time-element is a hold-over from written discourse.  The space-element... Read More

CCR601 – Genealogy – 1st Generation

Rickert, Thomas. “In the House of Doing:  Rhetoric and the Kairos of Ambience.” JAC 24 (2004): 901-927. Executive Summary: Rickert begins this article by discussing how Foucault and Barthes both challenged the existence of the autonomous author.  From the author, he moves on to writing.  Like the author, writing is spectral in the sense that it embodies the thoughts, writing, images, events, feelings of others as it comes from the author.  In other words, writing... Read More

CCR601 – Week Three

Pough, Gwendolyn D.  “’Each One, Pull One’ : Womanist Rhetoric and Black Feminist Pedagogy in the Writing Classroom.” Teaching Rhetorica: Theory, Pedagogy, Practice.  Eds. Kate Ronald and Joy Ritchie. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2006. Executive Summary: In this piece, Pough discusses how Womanist ideology can inform Black Feminist Pedagogy in the writing classroom.  Through an analysis of her own experience as a writing teacher using Womanist/Black Feminist texts,... Read More