Help with Class

[Gary Hatch]

> You might trying posting this question to mbu-l@ttuvm1. This is
> discussion list that is more directed to composition than to
> rhetoric. For our graduate course in composition theory, we try to
> use the best and most recent books by composition theorists. These
> are usually inexpensive and readily available. It is also much
> easier than assembling a packet. For our introductory course in the
> fall, we will be using the following titles:
>
> Peter Dixon. Rhetoric. Methuen, 1971. [A short intro. to classical
> rhetoric from the Critical Idiom series.]
>
> James Porter. Audience and Rhetoric. Prentice Hall, 1992. [Part of
> the Prentice Hall series in Writing and Culture. This is the finest
> and most accessible work on audience I have found.]
>
> Lester Faigley. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the
> Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh, 1992. [part of the U of
> Pittsburgh series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture]
>
> Anne Ruggles Gere, ed. Into the Field: Sites of Composition Studies.
> MLA, 1993. [Includes a number of essay on philosophy and
> composition and specifically postmodern philosophy and composition]
>
> James Williams. Preparing to Teach Writing. Wadsworth, 1989. [A
> practical guide to the teaching of writing. This course also
> supports TA training.]
>
> David Foster. A Primer for Writing Teachers. 1992. [Part of the
> Boynton/Cook series in Composition. A revision of Foster's earlier
> book by the same name. This gives a good overview of composition
> theory in the last ten years.]
>
>
> I can also recommend the following:
>
> Kurt Spellmeyer. Common Ground: Dialogue, Understanding, and the
> Teachng of Composition. [Part of the Prentice Hall series]
>
> Myron C. Tuman. Literacy Online: The Promise [and peril] of Reading
> and Writing with Computers. [Part of the Pittsburgh series]
>
>
>
> This should get you started if your main interest is composition
> theory. If you are interested in expanding that focus to rhetorical
> theory, I can suggest some additional titles.
Gary Hatch
Brigham Young University
English Department
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Provo, UT 84602 (801) 378-2402
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