Themes in Rhetoric
Ethics: Weaver, Burke, Plato, Quintilian, Cicero, Booth
Rhetorical Situation: Bitzer, Vatz, Consigny, Miller, Bazerman, Kennedy
Genre: Bazerman, Miller, Aristotle, Devitt
Metaphor: Lakoff and Johnson, Aristotle, Perelman, Burke
Marginalization: Butler, Gates, Glenn, Pratt, Vitanza
Composition: Berlin, Murphy, Pratt, Winterowd
Disciplinarity: Prior, Dillon, Bazerman
Audience: Burke, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Booth
Purposes/Conceptions of Rhetoric: Aristotle, Augustine, Plato, Burke, Booth, Crosswhite, Weaver, Richards
Locations of Rhetoric: Bolter (new media/digital), Aristotle/Plato/Cicero (oral), Dillon/Bazerman (writing), Plato and Augustine (anti-writing), Ong (orality vs literacy)
Sophistry: Plato, Vitanza, Glenn, Fish
Literacy: Ong, Bolter, Pratt, Gates
Aristotle’s Time Machine: See: Genre, Metaphor, Audience, Locations of Rhetoric, and Classical Canons for potential answers.
Classical Canons: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Blair, Ridolfo and DeVoss
Rhetorical Theory Influencing My Research
Themes in Composition Studies
How do they impact how we teach Composition? How does the role of the teacher shift with each new factor taken into account?
“Politics” (Should FYC be required? Should it exist? Where should it be housed?): Crowley, Smit, Bartholomae, Hairston, S. Miller
Genre: Mitchell, Devitt, C. Miller, Bazerman
Literacy: Ong, Kress, Selfe, Wysocki and Johnson-Eilola
Approaches: Berlin, McComiskey, Bruffee, Cooper and Holzman, Emig, Flower, Sommers, Perl
Process Movement: Murray, Elbow, Flower and Hayes, Sommers, Perl, Emig, Kent, Foster, Miller, Ede
Basic Writing: Bartholomae, Sommers, Perl, Soliday, Shor, Shaughnessy
Technology and Comp: Selfe, Bolter and Grusin, Johnson-Eilola, Yancey, Moran, Landow
Visual Rhetoric: George, Kress, Yancey
History: Berlin, Connors, Crowley, S. Miller, North, Smit
Feminism: Sullivan, Selfe, Hawisher and Sullivan, Gearhart, Annas, Lunsford and Ede, Lamb, S. Miller
Multiculturalism: Kent, Foster, Elbow, Mitchell, Smitherman
Delivery in New Media: Yancey, DeVoss and Ridolfo, Selfe, Reid
Power/Powerlessness: Shor, Mitchell
Influences on my Pedagogy/Teaching Philosophy: Shor, McComiskey
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