CCR760 – Miller – Genre as Social Action
Miller, Carolyn R. “Genre as Social Action.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 2 (1984): 151-67. Print. Miller isn’t content with the definition of genre as 1) similarity in strategies or forms in discourse; 2) similarities in audience; 3) similarities in modes of thinking; and 4) similarities in rhetorical situations (151). Working from Korhrs Campbell and Jamieson, Miller contends that the study of genre is useful not because it creates... Read More
CCR711 – Miller – What Should College English Be. . . Doing?
Miller, Thomas. “What Should College English Be… Doing?” College English 69 2 (2006): 150-55. Print. As with much of his work, Miller traces some of the binary-based themes about English in this article. Miller starts by noting how most conversations about English studies have traditionally centered around the question of what English is to what it’s teachers and students should be doing. Other discussions of English have focused... Read More
CCR760 – Miller, Rutter, Sullivan, Lay, Slack et. al.
Readings from Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s Central Works in Technical Communication Miller, C. (1979, 2004). A humanistic rationale for technical communication. 47-54. Rutter, R. (1991, 2004). History, rhetoric, & humanism: Toward a more comprehensive definition of technical communication. 20-34. Sullivan, D.L. (1990, 2004). Political-ethical implications of defining technical communication as a practice. 211-219. Lay,... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Rice
Rice, Jeff. “Urban Mappings: A Rhetoric of the Network.” RSQ: Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38 2 (2008): 198-218. Print. Rice begins with the contention that websites such as Google Maps and MapQuest are really sites of invention where new media is used for inventive practices of informational arrangements The “spaces” being mapped on the net are not only spatial. . . they are often ephemeral and personal. The “territories” where... 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... Read More
