Ballentine – Professional Writing and a ‘Whole New Mind’: Engaging with Ethics, IP, Design, and Globalization

Ballentine, Brian D.. “Professional Writing and a ‘Whole New Mind’:  Engaging with Ethics, Intellectual Property, Design, and Globalization.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 51.3 (2008): 328-40. Print. Abstract:  This paper describes a new cross-curricular design for an engineering communication course based on four themes: (1) ethics, accountability, and professionalism; (2) intellectual property; (3) design,... Read More

Herrington – Blogging Down: Copyright Law and Blogs in the Classroom

Herrington, TyAnna.  “Blogging Down: Copyright Law and Blogs in the Classroom.”  in Westbrook, Steve, ed. Composition & Copyright: Perspectives on Teaching, Textmaking, and Fair Use. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. H. notes that there  are two reasons why instructors should be concerned with IP & their students: 1) global accessibility of blogs raises the stakes in infringement cases; and 2) student authorship... Read More

Selections from Quintilian’s Institutes of Oratory

Quintilian – Selections from Institutes of Oratory Despite existing in the Imperial era, Quintillian’s rhetoric did serve a civic purpose – especially as used in forensic and epideictic oratory. Instruction in rhetoric – for Q. – is the art of speaking “well” – meaning both effectively and virtuously.  This is also known as the “strong” defense of rhetoric wherein truths are defined by the social theatres in which rhetoric is... Read More

Samples from Rice’s “Hip Hop Pedagogy”

Samples from Jeff Rice’s “The 1963 Hip-Hop Machine: Hip-Hop Pedagogy As Composition” What I want to add to Baker’s pedagogy, however, is an examination of the way hip-hop constructs discourse, the way it produces rhetorical meaning through it’s complex method of digital sampling, and how such rhetoric functions within the scope of argumentation. (454) In hip-hop, the “take whatever you find and use it” principle acts as the dominant... Read More

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.... Read More