| Date | Assignment |
| January 14 | Introduction to Course |
| January 21 | Mel Livatino, “Lookin’ for Fame at the 4Cs Convention” Susan Peck McDonald, “The Erasure of Language” Richard Haswell, “NCTE/CCCC’s Recent War on Scholarship” Richard Fulkerson, “Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” |
| January 28 | Maureen Daly Goggin, Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition (specific chapters TBA) |
| February 4 | Wendy Hesford, “Global Turns and Cautions in Rhetoric and Composition Studies” Jeff Rice, “The 1963 Hip-Hop Machine: Hip-Hop Pedagogy as Composition” Derek Mueller, “Discipliniography, Methodological Pluralism, and Distant Reading: New Methods for Composition Studies” |
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From this point in the semester onward, we’ll be looking at scholarship published during each of the last ten years, looking at one year per week for the final 10 weeks. In addition to the readings listed below, you will be responsible for reading and annotating published essays or chapters for that week’s year. |
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| February 11 | 1999: Royster & Williams (Braddock); Davis (Kinneavy) |
| February 18 | 2000: Porter, Sullivan, et al. (Braddock); Trimbur (Kinneavy) |
| February 25 | 2001: Fitzgerald (Braddock); Giroux (Kinneavy) |
| March 4 | 2002: Horner & Trimbur (Braddock); Bousquet (Kinneavy) |
| Spring Break, Sunday, March 8 – Sunday, March 15 CCCC, March 11-14 |
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| March 18 | 2003: Kopelson (Braddock); Haynes (Kinneavy) |
| March 25 | 2004: Lu (Braddock); Miller (Kinneavy) |
| April 1 | 2005: Fishman, Lunsford, et al. (Braddock); Kopelson (Kinneavy) |
| April 8 | 2006: Canagarajah (Braddock); Marrouchi (Kinneavy) |
| April 15 | 2007: Carter (Braddock); Ching (Kinneavy) |
| April 22 | 2008: TBA (Braddock); TBA (Kinneavy) |
| April 28 (T) | Classes End |
| May 1 (F) | Final Exam (date tentative) |
