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Introduction to Composition Studies

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English 570/Education 621
Fall 2001
Professor: Alisse Theodore
Email Address: alisse@umich.edu

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Schedule of Assignments
Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed.
Please note that this schedule of assignments is subject to change.
Changes will be announced in class and posted on the course website,
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alisse/ENGL570f01/index.html.

September

October

November

December

Date	Day	Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due
September 10	Monday	Welcome and introductions. Possible paths. Rhetoric.
September 17	Monday	Frames and Lenses. Ede, "Teaching Writing" (1991). Corbett, "Rhetoric, The Enabling Discipline" (1972). Gage, "On 'Rhetoric' and 'Composition'" (1991). Eberly and Antczak, "Composition" (2001). Eberly, "Public Processes and the Literatures of Public Address" (2000). Crowley and Hawhee, "Introduction" (1999). Tables of Contents for composition/rhetoric/pedagogy books. Aristotle, pages 13-22; Book 1, Chapters 1-9 (c. 332 B.C.).
September 24	Monday	Aristotle (c. 332 B.C.).
October 1	Monday	Quintilian (93 B.C.). Ad Herennium (c. 86-82 B.C.).
October 8	Monday	Cicero's Dialogues (55 B.C.).
October 15	Monday	Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives (1950).
October 22	Monday	Audience. Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, The New Rhetoric, pages 13-40 (1969). Bizzell, "What is a Discourse Community?" (1992). Ede and Lunsford, "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked" (1984). Elbow, "Closing My Eyes as I Speak" (1987). Lunsford and Ede, "Representing Audience" (1996).
October 29	Monday	Audience. Fahnestock, "Accommodating Science" (1986). Black, "The Second Persona" (1970). Charland, "Constitutive Rhetoric" (1987). Smith, "Discipline--It's a 'Good Thing'" (2000).
November 5	Monday	Invention. Toulmin, "The Layout of Arguments" (1964). Kneupper, "Teaching Argument" (1978). Schroeder, "Knowledge and Power" (1997). Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, The New Rhetoric, pages 273-96 (1969). Fahnestock and Secor, "The Rhetoric of Literary Criticism" (1991). Fahnestock and Secor, "Teaching Argument" (1983).
November 12	Monday	Invention. Walton, "Persuasive Definitions" (2001). Fisher, "Narration as a Human Communication Paradigm" (1984). Lamb, "Beyond Argument in Feminist Composition" (1991). Tables of Contents for composition textbooks.
November 19	Monday	Style. Erasmus (1512). Burke, "Terministic Screens" (1966). Weaver, "Some Rhetorical Aspects of Grammatical Categories" (1953).
November 26	Monday	Writing Assignments. Booth, "The Rhetorical Stance" (1963). MacDonald, "Problem Definition in Academic Writing" (1987). Lindemann, "Developing Writing Assignments" (1995). Connors and Glenn, "Successful Writing Assignments" (1999). Larson, from "Making Assignments, Judging Writing, and Annotating Papers" (1986). Anson, et al., "Creating Effective Writing Assignments" (1993). Writing Assignments.
December 3	Monday	Presentations.
December 10	Monday	Presentations.

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