This is a list of excellent texts for reading and research, especially as you anticipate your <Policy Argument> and <Wikipedia> projects. I invite you to help me grow it by sending along recommendations for other texts you think should be added. All of these texts are linked from our Critical Texts library on Bb, if they are not linked below.
-Prof. Graban
Bonus!
A recently released issue of Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society is dedicated to "Rhetoric and the Public Sphere."
On Analyzing and Composing Scientific and Technical Discourse
Fahnestock, Jeanne and Marie Secor. “The Stases in Scientific and
Literary Argument.” Written Communication 5.4 (Oct 1988): 427-43.
Gross, Alan G. “The Arrangement of the
Scientific Paper.” In The Rhetoric of Science. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard UP, 1990. 85-96.
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, and Dean Steffens. “Effectiveness in the Environmental Impact Statement: A Study in Public Rhetoric.” Written Communication 6 (1989): 155-80.
Rowsell, Jennifer. “Word.” In Working with
Multimodality: Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2013. 122-33.
Walton, Douglas. “The Structure of Media Argumentation.” Media Argumentation: Dialectic, Persuasion, Rhetoric.
New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. 323-60.
On Analyzing and Composing Public, Policy, or Political Arguments
Fine, Melinda. “‘You can’t just say that the only ones who can speak
are those who agree with your position’: Political Discourse in the Classroom.”
Eds. William A. Covino and David A. Jolliffe. Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. Needham Heights, MA:
Allyn and Bacon, 1995. 632-50.
Lazere, Donald. “Avoiding Oversimplification and Recognizing
Complexity.” In Reading and Writing for
Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen’s Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric.
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005. 244-56.
Lazere, Donald. “What Is an Argument? What Is a Good Argument?” In Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen’s Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005. 42-55.
Lazere, Donald. “What Is an Argument? What Is a Good Argument?” In Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen’s Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005. 42-55.
Sheard, Cynthia Miecznikowski. “The Public Value of Epideictic Rhetoric.” College English 58.7 (Nov. 1996): 765-94.
Welling, Bart H. “Ecoporn: On the Limits of Visualizing the Nonhuman.” Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature. Ed. Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey. Albany: State U of New York P, 2009. 53-77.
Welling, Bart H. “Ecoporn: On the Limits of Visualizing the Nonhuman.” Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature. Ed. Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey. Albany: State U of New York P, 2009. 53-77.
On Composing Rhetorically (and in Public)
Baldwin, James. “If Black English Isn't a Language, then Tell Me, What Is?” New York Times 29 Jul. 1979: E19. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1857-Current file).
Brandt, Deborah. “‘Who’s the president?: Ghostwriting and Shifting Values in Literacy.” College English 69.6 (2007): 549-71.
Corder, Jim W. “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love.” Rhetoric Review 4.1 (Sep. 1985): 16-32.
Brandt, Deborah. “‘Who’s the president?: Ghostwriting and Shifting Values in Literacy.” College English 69.6 (2007): 549-71.
Corder, Jim W. “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love.” Rhetoric Review 4.1 (Sep. 1985): 16-32.
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. “Rhetorical Situations.” In Appeals in Modern Rhetoric: An Ordinary-Language Approach. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois U P, 2005. 24-37.
Kolln, Martha. “The Writer’s Voice.” In Rhetorical
Grammar: Grammatical Choices Rhetorical Effects, Fifth Edition. New York:
Pearson, 2007. 107-123.
Ong, Walter. “The Writer’s Audience is Always A
Fiction.” PMLA 90 (1975): 9-21.
Richardson, Elaine. “My illLiteracy Narrative: Growing up Black, Po and a Girl, in the Hood.” Gender and Education 21.6 (Nov. 2009): 753-67.
Tannen, Deborah. “Fighting for Our Lives.” In The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue. New York: Random House, 1998. 6-16.
Wolf, Wendy M. “Editing Nonfiction: The
Question of ‘Political Correctness.’” Editors on Editing: What Writers Need
to Know About What Editors Do, Third Edition. Ed. Gerald Gross. New York:
Grove, 1993. 229-42. Tannen, Deborah. “Fighting for Our Lives.” In The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue. New York: Random House, 1998. 6-16.
On Composing Multimodally (and in Public)
Aronson, Merry, Don Spetner, and Carol Ames. The
Public Relation Writer’s Handbook: The Digital Age, Second Edition. San
Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008. Excerpts on “Public Relations Goes Digital”
and “Responsive Writing.”
Barthes, Roland. “The Rhetoric of the Image.” Image-Music-Text. Glasgow: Collins, 1977. 32-41.
Bezemer, Jeff, and Gunther Kress. “Writing in Multimodal Texts: A Social Semiotic Account for Designs of Learning.” Ed. Claire Lutkewitte. Multimodal Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. 233-57.
Bezemer, Jeff, and Gunther Kress. “Writing in Multimodal Texts: A Social Semiotic Account for Designs of Learning.” Ed. Claire Lutkewitte. Multimodal Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. 233-57.
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin.
"Remediation." Configurations 4.3 (1996): 311-58. Available
at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/toc/con4.3.html.
DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, and Sue Webb.
"Grand Theft Audio." Computer and Composition Online. Special
issue: Media convergence. 2008. Available at http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/CConline_GTA/.
Intellectual Property Caucus of the
Conference on College Composition and Communication. The CCCC-IP Annual: Top
Intellectual Property Developments. Available at http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/ip/ipreports.
Lauer, Claire. “Contending with Terms: 'Multimodal'
and 'Multimedia' in the Academic and Public Spheres.” Ed. Claire Lutkewitte. Multimodal
Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014.
22-41.
Multimodal Literacies Issue Management
Team of the NCTE Executive Committee. The NCTE Position Statement on
Multimodal Literacies. November 2005. Available at
http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/multimodalliteracies.
Selber, Stuart A. “Critical
Multiliteracies.” Multiliteracies for a
Digital Age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004. 74-134.
Whipple, Bob. "Images, the Commonplace Book, and Digital Self-Fashioning." Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom. Ed. Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole De Voss. Fort Collins, CO: The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, 2011. Available at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/copywrite/.
