Daily Schedule: Week 4
Monday, June 12Print, read, and notate:
Foss’s “Generic Criticism.” Rhetorical Criticism. 4th Edition. 2009. Recommended reading: Carolyn Miller and Dawn Shepard’s “Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog.” Foss presents and outlines the basic methodologies of genre criticism; Miller and Shepard povide an example of "genre description." For this mini-analysis you will be practicing "genre application." Further recommended readings:
Amy Devitt’s “Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptions of an Old Concept.” College Composition and Communication 44(4). Fall 1993. 573-584. Amy Devitt further elaborates her theory of genre in her book Writing Genres. 2004. |
Another excellent book on genre is Anis Bawarshi's Genre and the Invention of the Writer. 2003.
In "Paralogic Genres," Kent examines the role genre plays in our interpretation and evaluation of texts. In "The Rhetoric of Exorcism," Gunn provides an excellent genre analysis of the use of certain religious language in political discourse. |
Tuesday, June 13Presentations and workshop fifth mini-analysis.
Bring a clean rubric for your peers to evaluate your mini-analysis. |
Wednesday, June 14Print, read, and notate:
James Porter’s “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community.” Rhetoric Review, Vol 5, Autumn 1986, 34-47. Porter's text will provide you with a key hueristic (a lists of questions meant to help you invent things to say about any given text and the forum within which it occurs). GO TO THE END OF THE ESSAY and you will find it. Charles Bazerman’s “Intertextuality: How Texts Rely on Other Texts.” What Writing Does: 83-96. Bazerman's chapter will help with getting clear about terms and how to apply them. Recommended reading: Killingsworth. "Discourse Communities: Local and Global." Killingsworth complicates the notion of intertextuality, revealing more possibilities to use in your forum analysis. Excellent intertextual analysis of "strong female characters."
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Here is a sample of how a "forum analysis" could be used to evaluate the role discourse community plays in the shaping of writing.
Read Bolduc for a demonstration of how to evaluate a text using intertextuality as a method (though not precisely as Porter develops it with his body of terms). Also read Harris for a more in-depth discussion of the meaning and implications of discourse community in regards to the individual writer. Refer back to Selzer's piece on rhetorical analysis, and the second sample he analyzed: what he calls "contextual analysis" is quite similar to what we are trying to do here. |
Thursday, June 15 |
Introduce and discuss First Analysis.
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