Rhetoric and Composition



PhD Exam Lists

Teagan Decker, University of Washington

Committee: Gail Stygall (chair), Juan Guerra, Sandra Silberstein

(Revised 6/15/05)

Major Approach to Language Study 1: Rhetoric and Composition

This area is designed to provide a broad background in the field of composition and rhetoric while focusing on areas that are of particular interest to me. The attention to history and context lends the list a perspective that will serve to illuminate the more political and contemporary texts that follow. The selections on the theory and politics of composition apply to my research interests in race, class and gender and also provide the additional scope necessary to participate as a member of this scholarly community. The final subsection on WAC/WID programs and writing centers brings together a variety of perspectives on disciplinarity and alternative writing programs which seek to address the concerns of university-wide efforts to incorporate writing into students’ experiences outside of English departments. Universities have increasingly been utilizing the writing center as a hub for interdisciplinary work; this section is addresses the perils and possibilities of various configurations of these programs.

History and Context

Berlin, James A. Contemporary Composition: The Major Rhetorical Approaches. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Connors, Robert J. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory and Pedagogy. Pittsburg, PA: U of Pittsburg Press, 1997.

Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, third edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pitsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

Harris, J. A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Jarratt, Susan C. Rereading the Sophists. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Kennedey, George A. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition From Ancient Greece to Modern Times. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Miller, Thomas P. The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces. Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Murphy, James, ed. A Short History of Writing instruction from Ancient Greece to Twentieth Century America. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1990.

Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper and Kurt Schick. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Composition Theory and Politics

Aronowitz, Stanley and Henry Giroux. Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

Bartholomae, David. “Writing Without Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow.” CCC 46.1 (Feb 1995): 62-71.

Berlin, James A. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Bizzell, Patricia. Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness. Pittsburg, PA: U of Pittsburg Press, 1992.

Bousquet, Marc, Tony Scott and Leo Parascondola. Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers. Carbondale, IL: SIU, 2004.

Delpit, Lisa. “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children.” Harvard Educational Review. 58.3 (August 1988): 280-297.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum,1998.

Gale, Xin Liu. Teachers, Discourses, and Authority in the Postmodern Composition Classroom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Horner, Bruce and John Trimbur. “English Only and U.S. Composition.” CCC 53.4 (June 2002): 594-630.

Jarratt, Susan C. and Lynn Worsham, eds. Feminism and Composition. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998. Selections.

Kent, Thomas, ed. Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing Process Paradigm. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.

Miller, Susan. Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing. Pittsburg, PA: U of Pittsburg Press, 1998.

---. Textual Carnivals. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Ohmann, Richard. English in America: A Radical View of the Profession. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Shor, Ira. When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Scroeder, Christopher, Helen Fox and Bizzell, Patricia (eds) Alt Dis: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002.

Trimbur, John. “Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning.” College English 51.6 (October 1989): 602-46.

Villanueva, Victor, ed. Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Urbana, Il: NCTE, 1997. [Selections]

Disciplinarity in Writing and its Intersections with Writing Centers

Barnett, Robert W. and Jacob Blumner, eds. Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs: Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Bazerman, Charles and David Russell, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994.

Bazerman, Charles, and James Paradis, eds. Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in the Professional Communities. Madison: University of Wisconson Press, 1991. Selections.

Boquet, Elizabeth. Noise From the Writing Center. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2002.

Dillon, George. Contending Rhetorics: Writing in Academic Disciplines. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Fishman, Stephen M. and Lucille McCarthy. Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?: Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers Across the Curriculum. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002.

Grimm, Nancy. Good Intentions: Writing Center Work for Postmodern Times. ??? Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1999

McLeod, Susan. ed. WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs. Urbanna, Il: NCTE, 2001.

Messer-Davidow, Ellen, David R. Shumway, David J. Sylvan, eds. Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Murphy, Christina and Joe Law, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Centers. Davis, CA. Hermagoras Press, 1995.

Simpson, Jeanne and Ray Wallace, eds. The Writing Center: New Directions. New York: Garland Pub., 1991.

Speigelman, Candace and Laurie Grobman, eds. On Location: Tutors in the Writing Classroom. Logan, Utah: University of Utah Press, forthcoming.

Pemberton, Michael and Joyce Kincaid, eds. The Center Will Hold: Critical Essays on Writing Center Scholarship. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003.

Prior, Paul A.. Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistorical Account of Literate Activity in the Academy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998.

Russell, David R. Writing in the Academic Disciplines, 1870-1990: A Curricular History. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Waldo, Mark. Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004.

Major Approach to Language Study 2: Discourse Theory and Discourse Analysis

This area of study provides a background in discourse theory with a focus on the power of language as it shapes and is shaped by politics and society. I am ultimately interested in how political issues such as affirmative action are framed by political discourse and the language of legislation itself. This discourse is then re-framed by the media, the scholarly community, and the people and programs that are affected. The discourse analysis section provides the tools for the practice of discourse analysis, particularly in the areas of politics, media and legislation. These texts should provide a toolkit for the work that I plan to do on affirmative action, the evolution of EOP, and basic writing.

Discourse Theory

Bakhtin, M. M. “Discourse in the Novel.” In The Dialogic Imagination. Michael Holquist, ed. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1981. 259-422.

---. “The Problem With Speech Genres.” Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Eds. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1986. 60-102.

Bourdieu, Pierre, et al. Academic Discourse. Cambridge, UK: Blackwell, 1994.

---. Language and Symbolic Power. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.

Burchel, Graham, Colin Gordon and Peter Miller, eds. The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality (with two lectures by and an interview with Michel Foucault). 1991.

Cameron, Deborah, et al. Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method. New York: Routledge, 1992.

---. Verbal Hygiene. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Fairclough, Norman. Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 1992.

Foucault, Michel. The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.

---. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.

---. History of Sexuality. New York: Vintage Books, 1980.

Fowler, Roger et al, eds. Language and Control. Boston: Routledge, 1993.

Hodge, R. and G. Kress. Language as Ideology. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Discourse Analysis

Halliday, M.A.K. and Ruqaiya Hasan. Cohesion in English. London, Longman, 1976.

Johnstone, Barbara. Discourse Analysis. Malden, MS: Blackwell Publishers, Inc, 2002.

Schiffrin, Deborah. The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

van Dijk, Teun, ed. Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction. vol. 1 London: Sage Publications, 1997. Selections

---. Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach. vol. 2 London: Sage Publications, 1997. Selections

Wodak, Ruth and Michael Meyer, eds. Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage, 2001.

-Political and Media Analysis

Clark, T.D. “An Analysis of recurrent Features of Contemporary American Radical, Liberal and Conservative Political Discourse.” Southern Speech Communication Journal 44.4 (1979): 399-422.

Fairclough, Norman. Media Discourse. New York: E. Arnold, 1995.

Scollon, Ron. Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction: A Study of News Discourse. New York: Longman, 1998.

Silberstein, Sandra. War of Words: Language, Politics and 9/11. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Smitherman-Donaldson, Geneva and Teun A. van Dijk, eds. Discourse and Discrimination. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988.

Wodak, Ruth, ed. Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse. Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1889.

-Legal and Legislative Analysis

Cotterill, Janet, ed. Language in the Legal Process. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.

Maley, Yon. “The Language of Legislation.” Language and Society 16 (1987): 25-48.

Minnow, Martha. Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Tiersma, Peter. Legal Language. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Special Topic: Basic Writing, EOP and Affirmative Action

This section highlights discourses on race and class, concentrating on how they intersect with discourses of equity and fairness that are then represented (or misrepresented) in affirmative action texts and writing programs. The first subsection concentrates on basic writing and EOP, a highly politicized site where public debates over the role of the academy in achieving social justice come to bear on particular people, classrooms and programs. Moving out into the field of public debate and legislation, the next subsection contains a collection of writing on affirmative action. A variety of viewpoints are represented through a wide ranging sample of academic texts which address the history, legislation, and current debates over this issue. The final subsection provides a theoretical framework on class and race, which in itself is another layer of discourse interacting with the political, media, and institutional, but which also supplies a theoretical lens with which to analyze this complex swirl of representations.

Basic Writing and EOP

Bartholomae, David. “The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum” Journal of Basic Writing 12 (1993): 4-21.

Bizzell, Patricia. “Basic Writing and the Issue of Correctness; or, What to Do with ‘Mixed’ Forms of Academic Discourse.” Journal of Basic Writing 19.1 (Spring 2000):4-12.

Fox, Tom. Defending Access: A Critique of Standards in Higher Education. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers-Heinemann, 1999.

Horner, Bruce, and Min-Zhan Lu. Representing the “Other”: Basic Writers and the Teaching of Basic Writing. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1999.

Kahaney, Phyllis and Judith Liu, eds. Contested Terrain: Diversity, Writing, and Knowledge. Ann Arbor, MI: U Mich P, 2001.

Kinkead, Joyce A. , Jeanette G. Harris, eds. Writing Centers in Context: Twelve Case Studies. Urbana, IL. National Council of Teachers of English, 1993. (Gail Okawa’s article on UW EOP)

Leon, David Jess. Institutional Racism and the Educational Opportunity Program: A Study of

Organizational Change and Strategies for Reform.1979. Accession Number: ED179170

---. Racism in the University: The Case of the Educational Opportunity Program.

September 1978. Accession Number: ED160696

Lu, Min-Zhan. “Redefining the Legacy of Mina Shaugnessy: A Critique of the Politics of Linguistic Innocence.” Journal of Basic Writing 10.1 (1991) 26-40.

McLaren, Peter. Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education. New York: Longman, 1994.

Mutnick, Deborah. Writing in an Alien World: Basic Writing And the Struggle for Equality in Higher Education. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1996.

Rose, Mike. Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

---, ed. When a Writer Can’t Write. New York: Guilford Press, 1985.

Selections, including Bartholomae’s Inventing the University.

Shaughnessy, Mina. Errors and Expectations: A Guide For the Teacher of

Basic Writing. New York: Oxford University Press,1977.

Sirc, G. English composition as a happening. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002.

Severino, Carol. “An Urban University and Its Academic Support Program: Teaching Basic Writing in the Context of an ‘Urban Mission.’” Journal of Basic Writing 15.1 (Summer 1996): 39-56.

---. “The Idea of an Urban University: A History and Rhetoric of Ambivalence and Ambiguity.” Urban Education 31.3 (Sept 1996): 291-313.

---. “Where the Cultures of Basic Writing and Academia Intersect: Cultivating the Common Ground.: Journal of Basic Writing 11.1 (Spring 1992): 4-15.

Soliday, Mary. The Politics of Remediation. Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2002.

Sternglass, Marilyn. Time to Know Them. Matwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997.

Stygall, Gail. “Resisting Privilege: Basic Writing and Foucault’s Author Function.” CCC 45.3 (Oct 1994): 320-41.

---. “Unraveling at Both Ends: Anti-Undergraduate Education, Anti-Affirmative Action, and Basic Writing at Research Schools.” Journal of Basic Writing 18.2 (1999): 4-22.

Traub, James. City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Wallace, Jeffrey J. Politics and Precursors: The Educational Opportunity Program ("SEEK") at State University College at Buffalo. Urban Education. 18.4 (Jan 1984): 503-19.

Affirmative Action: Legislation and History

Anderson, Terry H. The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Bell, Derrick A. Silent covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes

For Racial Reform. Oxford, New York:Oxford University Press, 2004.

Cahn, Steven M., ed. The Affirmative Action Debate. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Chavez, Lydia. The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Crosby, Faye J. Affirmative Action is Dead: Long Live Affirmative Action. New Haven:

Yale University Press, 2004

Fleming, John. The Lengthening Shadow of Slavery: A Historical Justification for Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1976

Fullinwider, Robert K. and Judith Lichtenberg. Leveling the Playing Field: Justice, Politics, and College Admissions. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.

Gehring, Donald D., ed. Responding to the New Affirmative Action Climate. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1998.

Lawrence, Charles III and Mari J. Matsuda. We Won’t Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Leiter, Samuel and William M. Leiter. Affirmative Action in Antidiscrimination Law and Policy: An Overview and Synthesis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Lindsay, Beverly and Manuel J. Justiz, Eds. The Quest For Equity in Higher Education: Toward New Paradigms In An Evolving Affirmative Action Era. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Pusser, Brian. Burning Down the House: Politics, Governance, and Affirmative Action at

the University of California. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Sadovnik, Alan R. Equity and Excellence in Higher Education: The Decline of a Liberal Educational Reform. American University Studies. Series XIV. Education Vol. 35. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. New York,1994

Spann, Girardeau A. The Law of Affirmative Action: Twenty-five Years of Supreme Court

Decisions on Race and Remedies. New York: New York University Press, 2000

Swanson, Kathryn. Affirmative Action and Preferential Admissions in Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981.

VanderWaerdt, Lois. Affirmative Action in Higher Education: A Sourcebook. New York: Garland ,1982.

Theoretical Perspectives on Class Structure and Race

Althusser, Louis. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1972. Selections.

Aronowitz, Stanley. The Knowledge Factory. Boston:Beacon Press, 2000.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.

Cassell, Phillip. The Giddens Reader. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Crenshaw, Kimberle, ed. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. New York: New Press, 1995.

Dreyfuss, Joel and Charles Lawrence III. The Bakke Case: The Politics of Inequality. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.

Gee, James Paul, Glynda Hull and Colin Lankshear. The New Work Order: Behind the Language of the New Capitalism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.

Giddens, Anthony. The Class Structure of Advanced Societies. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Guinier, Lani. Michelle Fine and Jane Balin. Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.

Guinier, Lani and Susan Sturm. Who’s Qualified? Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Matsuda, Mari. Where is Your Body?: And Other Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Stuckey, Elspeth, The Violence of Literacy. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1991.

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