TEACHING [Fall 2017]
English 605: Computers in Language and Rhetoric
English 680: Intersectional Methods in Rhetoric
Job Group for Rhetoric & Composition
TEACHING [Spring 2017]
English 624: Seminar in Modern Rhetoric (1600-1900)
Job Group for Rhetoric & Composition
TEACHING [Fall 2016]
English 396/596: Games and UX (cotaught with Blackmon)
English 680: Narratives, Stories, and Rhetorical Method
Job Group for Rhetoric & Composition
TEACHING [Spring 2016]
English 624: Seminar in Modern Rhetoric (1600-1900)
Job Group for Rhetoric & Composition
TEACHING [Fall 2015]
English 625: Empirical Research in Writing
English 680: Methodological Praxis
Job Group for Rhetoric & Composition
TEACHING [Spring 2015]
English 625: Empirical Research in Writing
TEACHING [Fall 2014]
English 624: Modern Rhetoric (1600-1900)
English 680: Professional Writing Theory
TEACHING [Spring 2014]
English 625: Empirical Research in Writing
TEACHING [fall 2013]
English 625: Empirical Research in Writing
English 680: Institutional Rhetoric
Job Group for Rhetoric & Composition
Course Descriptions
Institutional Rhetoric [2013]
A seminar, this course looks at discourses, practices, and tactics flowing from, accompanying, and even
constituting institutions and their rhetorics. It examines the such topics as: relationships between institutions and organizations,
boundaries and classifications, memories and memorializing, rhetoric's inheritance in the academy, and tactics for
the work of rhetoric in institutions (including positioning, critiquing, sensemaking, and practices).
Syllabus
Background Readings
Definition Handout
English 624: Seminar in History of Rhetoric and Composition: Modern Period[2012]
A required course for Ph.D. students in Rhetoric and Composition, Modern Rhetoric ponders how the
enlightenment (and other modern developments) impacted and reshaped the rhetorical
traditions in the UK and in the United States. The course also considers methodologies
for the study of history and how historical knowledge is built.
syllabus
detailed refs (updated 9.08.12)
other materials and links
RhetComp Job Group [2013]
The Rhetoric & Composition Job Group offers advice,
models, feedback, and workshopping to Ph.D. candidates who are seeking academic employment for
Fall 2014. During the first half of the semester the group focuses on producing written materials that
reflect the professional identity they want to project. Then the group turns to search management,
preparation for interviews, and deportment. In the second semester the group works more individually
on search psychology, campus visits, and offers.
Job Group Calendar
Other Job Materials
Empirical Research in Writing [2013]
A required course for PhD students in Rhetoric and Composition, English 625 focuses on
reading (both with and against the grain of) empirical research and planning empirical research.
The culminating project, a plan for a needed study, is presented at a poster session attended by others
in the RC community.
syllabus
readings and materials exchange (pswd reqd)
Rhetorical Methodologies[2012]
A seminar, this course in Fall 2012 explored the common and divergent components of major methodologies deployed by
researchers and scholars in Rhetoric & Composition Studies, worked to identify appropriate rhetorical methodologies,
and helped members practice analysis.
syllabus
other materials and links
English 624: Seminar in History of Rhetoric and Composition: Modern Period [2012]
A required course for Ph.D. students in Rhetoric and Composition, Modern Rhetoric ponders how the
enlightenment (and other modern developments) impacted and reshaped the rhetorical
traditions in the UK and in the United States. The course also considers methodologies
for the study of history and how historical knowledge is built.
syllabus
detailed refs (updated 9.08.12)
other materials and links
RhetComp Job Group2012
The Rhetoric & Composition Job Group offers advice,
models, feedback, and workshopping to Ph.D. candidates who are seeking academic employment for
Fall 2011. During the first half of the semester the group focuses on producing written materials that
reflect the professional identity they want to project. Then the group turns to search management,
preparation for interviews, and deportment. In the second semester the group works on psychology,
campus visits, and offers. Materials are distributed each week in the group meeting. Printed materials are at Copymat.
Job Group Calendar
Other Job Materials
English 605: Computers in Language and Rhetoric
This course serves as the first seminar we offer in technology and writing (broadly defined). While
we are cover basic topics and also read student suggested materials, the theme word that has
evolved for me this version of the course = "ubiquitous." Computers are everywhere and nowhere,
as is the academic talk surrounding their uses for communication, writing, entertainment,
and so on. Historically it has been my experience--when I study processes--that new writing
technologies lay open processes temporarily until new habits take hold. So,
those in computer science who have sought to institute ubiquitous computing have
seemed like fellow travelers. And, with the growth of wireless computing, and the ascendancy
of our attachments to computing device (most of which focus on communication), the lights and
shadows of ubiquity intrigue me. If we believe NCTE, writing identity is changing. Is writing
itself becoming "ubiquitous" (or perhaps "pervasive") and if so, is that good, bad, or perhaps another
lever to invite
a resurgence of technological determinism? Well think on it. Of course, for technology to be
ubiquitous, it needs stewards, and a longtime complaint of C+W folk is that the parts of their
work that is stewardship does not get "counted." There are all sorts of magic involved with
this class.
Syllabus for English 605
Materials exchange site
Dr605
CompLodge (a collaborative pedagogical site class is developing)
English 591: Seminar in Composition Theory
A required course for Ph.D. students in Rhetoric and Composition, Composition Theory introduces
issues and problems that thread themselves through the field in the past fourty years, including but not
limited to the rise of composition as a discipline, the impace of the revival of rhetoric on composition,
interest in writing as a process, collaboration as an activity
or a way of knowing, the contending aims of composition courses (civic, academic, personal growth, etc.),
how the needs of teachers direct the issues of the field, what student voices sound like, and so on.
can been spun as the substructure for a straightforward tale of writing teachers seeking a discipline and a
theory or set of theories that can ground this discipline,ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂfirst in rhetoric and linguistics, then in psychology and education, then in
literary and political theory. But to what extent have these acts of theory
seeking resulted in a field with a name other than English
Studies (a field of what sort, with what boundaries, what evidence, what professional organizations and accrediting processes,
with what name, and so on), and if it has not yet produced a discipline, do we want it to become one (under what circumstances,
with what phenomena of interest, and so on)? Yes,
first ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂyear
composition, though it constantly uses that domain as central to its mission.
Syllabus for English 591
Class GoogleSite "purdueengl591"
Class Zotero Group "591fall2010"
English 505M: Practicum in Teaching Professional Writing (Fall 2010)[Mark Hannah, co-mentor]
A required course for new teachers of Professional Writing, 505M aims to: 1) assist new teachers of
professional writing to be successful in their business writing teaching, 2) assist new teachers in their
growth as professional writers, and 3) contribute to their growth as researchers/teachers of professional
writing. This semester we will revise the course. Its previous focus on reporting genres, group work,
and technology, while appropriate, have staid assignments that have led to increased plagiarism. So, we are
rethinking the work of the course from the perspective of social media. Students are developing backgrounders
on some aspect of social media for their older, less hip bosses. Then they are working in groups to
develop frugal social media approaches for some fictionalized small businesses created by the 505 instructors.
Finally, they are developing employment portfolios that move past their resume and cover letter to other materials
(including a required small video that can be emailed to a contact) that support arguments for their
accomplishments.
Class Materials available to class members at the course drupal site.
NOTE: In January 2011, the materials for this course were moved to a googlewebsite that is open to all to view/use:
PTWXCHANGE (ProfessionalTechnicalWritingXCHANGE) https://sites.google.com/site/ptwxchange/
English 680/AmStud 650: Archives and Digital Humanities [co-taught with Prof. Jennifer Bay] (Spring 2010)
An interdisciplinary seminar, Archives and Digital Humanities interrogates the gaps and overlaps exposed
by mapping physical and virtual in the areas of memory, history, archives, and humanities.
Syllabus for AmStud650/English680
Class GoogleGroup "Archives Planning"
Class Zotero Site "680Archives"
Other Class Materials
English 505M: Practicum in Teaching Professional Writing (Fall 2009)
A required course for new teachers of Professional Writing, 505M aims to: 1) assist new teachers of
professional writing to be successful in their business writing teaching, 2) assist new teachers in their
growth as professional writers, and 3) contribute to their growth as researchers/teachers of professional
writing. This semester class members will build video learning objects to support the teaching
of professional writing.
Orientation Handout for Practicum in Professional Writing
420 Student Inventory
Worksheet on Classroom Information Flow
Other Class Materials available to class members at the course drupal site.
English 680R: Public Rhetorics: Theories, Practices, Pedagogies (Spring 2009)
Anchor seminar in the secondary area in public rhetoric, this seminar introduces relevant
contemporary representations of public(s) in the contexts of how they are theorized, practiced, and
taught in Composition Studies. The special topic this semester is engagement and the focal medium is
photography.
Syllabus for English 680r: Public Rhetorics
On Mapping Public Rhetoric [powerpoint]
Class Project: Proposal for ENGL 205