Edbauer – Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies
Edbauer, Jennifer. “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 35 4 (2008): 5-24. Print. Edbauer begins by acknowledging that public spaces and the broader public sphere are constituted by a multiplicity of voices and perspectives. Following Bitzer, Edbauer locates exigency in the material life world – “the external conditions of material and social... Read More
Reid – The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition
Reid, Alexander. The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition. West Lafayette: Parlor Press. 2007. Introduction: The Two Virtuals There are two virtuals. The first is the virtual reality with which many of us are familiar. This is the virtual reality of technology – cell phones, MMORPGs, etc. This virtual reality has created anxiety for higher education by raising anxieties about the diminution of humanistic... Read More
Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity
Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity Introduction: From Vitalism to Complexity Hawk claims that compositionists consider the term vitalism as an “anything goes” approach to writing and thinking, as an “ahistorical category that subsumes multiple divergent practices, and as an assumed negative counterpart to preferred rhetorical practices that establishes a binary between rhetoric and poetics” (3). ... 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
