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Engl 621         Seminar: Theories of Context         David R. Russell      Spring 04

 

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Introduction: Lecture on classical and renaissance sources of two traditions: Plato, Aristotle, Descartes / Isocrates, Vico

 

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ENGINEERING, IP COGNITIVE, & RHETORICAL SITUATION MODELS

~ Linda Flower and John R. Hayes, "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing," CCC, 32 (December1981).

~ Bitzer, Lloyd F. The rhetorical situation 1968. Journal of Philosophy and Rhetoric 01.1 1-14

OPTIONAL:

~ Introduction to the Shannon-Weaver ("Engineering") model of communication, 1947 Mick Underwood, www.ccms-infobase.com

~ Brief Excerpts from Warren Weaver's Introduction to: Claude Shannon's The Mathematical Theory of Communication

~ Critiques of the Shannon-Weaver model  (and all conduit models)

~ Vatz, Richard E. The myth of the rhetorical situation 1973. Journal of Philosophy and Rhetoric  06.3 154-161

~ Consigny, Scott Rhetoric and its situations 1974. Journal of Philosophy and Rhetoric  07.3  175-186

 

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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND 'DISCOURSE COMMUNITY'

~ Kenneth A. Bruffee, Social Construction, Language, and the Authority of Knowledge: A Bibliographical Essay. College English, Vol. 48, No. 8. (Dec., 1986), pp. 773-790.

~ Lucille McCarthy. "A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum." Research in the Teaching of English 21 (1987). pp. 233-265.

~ OPTIONAL: Borg, Eric. (2003) Discourse Community. ELT Journal. 57/4 pp. 398-400. (ftp)

~ Olsen, Leslie A. (1993). Research on Discourse Communities: An Overview. Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives. Carbondale: SIU P. 181-194.

~ Bartholomae, David. "Inventing the University." Journal of Basic Writing 5 (1986): 4-23.

~ Harris, Joseph (1989). 'The Idea of Community in the Study of Writing'. College Composition and Communication 40: 11-22. (ISU computers only)

 

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MARXISM

~ Marx, K. from Economico-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844: Alienated Labour and Private Property and Communism; The Theses on Feurbach,. Division of Labour

~ OPTIONAL: Marx, K. (1867). Capital (chapters 1.1; 1.2; 7.1; 7.2; 13, 14, 15.1; and 15.4) available at: http://www.clmer.csulb.edu:8000/xmcaCourse/4

 

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US PRAGMATISM

~ Dewey, John. Democracy & Education, Chs. 1 & 2

~ Mead, George Herbert. Mind Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Edited by Charles W. Morris). Chicago: U of Chicago P (1934):

           ~Section 33 Social Foundations & Functions of Thought & Communication

           ~Section 34  The Community and the Institution

OPTIONAL: Intro to Dewey¹s thought | Intro to Mead, Dewey, etc.

 

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VYGOTSKY AND CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY

~ Vygotsky, L. (1930/1978) Mind in Society. Harvard U. Press.. Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 6. (sorry for the mistake and confusion!)

~ OPTIONAL: Slick introduction to Cultural-Historical Activity Theory.

FYI: Socio-Cultural Theory Site

 

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ENGESTROM¹S ACTIVITY SYSTEM THEORY

~Kaptelinin, Victor & Bonnie A. Nardi. (1997). Activity Theory: Basic Concepts and Applications. CHI 97 Electronic Publications. Word version

~Engeström, Y., Miettinen, R., Punamäki, R.-L. (Eds). 1999. Perspectives on activity theory. New York: Cambridge University Press. (paper only)

~ Engeström, Yrjö & Michael Cole. (1997). ³Situated Cognition in Search of an Agenda. Situated Cognition.  Ed. Kirshner & Whitson. Pp. 301-308. (paper only)

~ Engeström, Yrjö, Ritva Engeström & Merja Kärkkäinen. Polycontextuality and Boundary Crossing in Expert Cognition: Learning and Problem Solving in Complex Work Activities. Learning and Instruction 5 319-336. (paper only)

~ OPTIONAL: Slick introduction to Activity Systems

~ Engeström, Y (1987). Learning by Expanding (See especially chapter 2 from page 29 to page 91; all of chapter 3)

 

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NORTH AMERICAN GENRE THEORY

RESPONSE OR ³PROPOSAL² DUE

~ "Genre as Social Action." Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 (May 1984): 151­167. http://www4.ncsu.edu/~crm/pubs/genre1984.pdf

~ Charles Bazerman. "Systems of Genre and the Enactment of Social Intentions." Genre and the New Rhetoric. Ed. Freedman and Medway. Taylor and Francis, 1994.

 

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NORTH AMERICAN GENRE THEORY: GENRE SYSTEMS

~ Russell, David R. Rethinking Genre in School and Society: An Activity Theory Analysis WC 14 (1997): 504-554.

 

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~ Bawarshi, A. S. (2003). Genre and the invention of the writer : reconsidering the place of invention in composition. Logan, Utah State University Press. Chap. 4 Constructing Desire. 78-111

           (note: available free online by following the login procedure at:http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/jourbook/aboutnetlib.html (on library computers only) and then accessing from anywhere at http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=101633

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BAKHTIN

~ Bakhtin, Michael. From The Problem of Speech Genres (1951, tr. 1986).  In The Rhetorical Tradition ed. Bizzell & Herzberg, 2nd Edition pp. 1227-1245.

 

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US USES OF BAKHTIN

RESPONSE OR ³PROPOSAL² DUE

~ Miller, Carolyn R. "Rhetorical Community: The Cultural Basis of Genre." Genre and the New Rhetoric. Ed. Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway. Taylor and Francis, 1994. 67-78.

~ Paul Prior. Writing/Disciplinarity. Erlbaum 1998. "A Microhistory of Mediated Authorship and Disciplinary Enculturation." 215-244

 

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 SITUATED COGNITION AND THE PROBLEM OF 'TRANSFER'

~ Engeström, Y. (2003). 'Conceptualizing transfer: From standard notions to developmental perspectives. Between school and work: New perspectives on transfer and boundary-crossing. Y. Engeström, Engeström, R. & Kerosuo, H. Amsterdam, Pergamon: 19-38. Overview of theories & research on transfer, 1902-2002

~ Brown, John Seely, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning Educational Researcher; v18 n1, pp. 32-42, Jan-Feb 1989.

~ Lave, J. (1996). Teaching, as Learning, in Practice. In Mind, Culture and Activity, Vol.3 (3), (pp.149-16). (pdf)

 

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COMPUTER-MEDIATED CONTEXTS

~ Bonnie Nardi. "Studying Context." Context and Consciousness. Ed. B. Nardi. Cambridge MA: MIT, 1996. pp. 69-102.

~ Spinuzzi, C. Compound Mediation in Software Development: Using Genre Ecologies to Study Textual Artifacts. Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives. Perspectives on Writing. Ed. Bazerman, Charles, and Russell, David. 2002.  Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity. pdf

 

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SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS (AUSTRALIAN GENRE THEORY)

(Guest teacher: Carol Chapelle)

~Martin, J. R. "A Contextual Theory of Language." In The Powers of Literacy: A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing, ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, 116-136. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.

~ Gibbons, P.(2003) Mediating Language Learning: Teacher Interactions with ESL Students in a Content-Based Classroom in TESOL Quarterly, Vol 37, No 2. Summmer 2003.

Some notes on Systemic-Fu#4C2C0

http://www.wagsoft.com/Systemics/Definition/definition.html

 

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FEMINIST THEORIES OF CONTEXT

(Guest teacher: Adela Licona)

~ Lugones, María. (1997). ³Playfulness, ³World²-Traveling, and Loving Perception.²Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Ed. Diana Tietjens Meyers. New York: Routledge.  (Reprinted from Hypatia 2, 1987). Pp. 148-159. (paper only)

~ Martin, Biddy & Chandra Talpade Mohanty. (1997, 1986). ³Feminist Politics: What¹s Home Got To Do With It!² Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. E. Robyn R. Warhol & Dian Price Herndl.  New Brunswick: Rutgers U P. Pp. 292-310. (paper only)

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 SITUATED COGNITION, AT AND ŒTRANSFER¹

~ Patrick Dias et al. Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts . Erlbaum,1998. Chapters 3 and 4 (pp. 47-81).

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RESPONSE OR ³PROPOSAL² DUE

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~ Patrick Dias et al. Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts . Erlbaum,1998. Chapters 6, 7 and 11 (see M 9)

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SPRING BREAK

 

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CRITICAL RACE THEORY

~ Prendergast, Catherine. "Race, the Absent Presence in Composition Studies." College Composition and Communication, 50.1, September, 1998: 36-53

~ Wallace, David L., and Annissa Bell. "Being Black at a Predominantly White University." College English 61.3 (January 1999): 307­27.

~ 2-page excerpt from Patricia J. Williams (1997) Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race,  Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

 

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WORKSHOP ON PAPERS AND/OR PROPOSALS. (I'll be at 4C's)

 

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BOURDIEU¹S THEORY OF PRACTICE (REFLEXIVE SOCIOLOGY)

~ Bourdieu, Pierre. from Language and Symbolic Power.

           ~Editor's Introduction (John B. Thompson)

           ~"On Symbolic Power²

FYI: Pierre Bourdieu link page

 

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~ Bourdieu, Pierre. from Language and Symbolic Power.

           ~"Social Space and the Genesis of Classes²

~ Schryer, C. E. (2000). Walking a fine line writing negative letters in an insurance company. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 14, 445-497. (pdf)

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FOUCAULT

~The Foucault section in Bizzell & Herzberg, pp. 1432-1470.  From The Archeology of Knowledge and The Order of Discourse

FYI: http://www.horuspublications.com/guide/cm108.html - f7

FYI: Brief! Introduction. http://theory.org.uk/ctr-fou1.htm

FYI: Super intro to many media theorists. http://theory.org.uk/main.htm

PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE (WE¹LL DISTRIBUTE THEM IN CLASS)

 

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WORKSHOP ON PAPERS (read papers in your group‹and get ahead on reading/writing?)

 

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CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

~ Myers, Greg. "Out of the Laboratory and Down to the Bay: Writing in Science and Technology Studies," Written Communication 13 (1996): 4-43.

 

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UK CULTURAL STUDIES: HALL¹S ARTICULATION THEORY

~John Trimbur, ³Composition and the Circulation of Writing² College Composition and Communication, Vol. 52, No. 2. (Dec., 2000), pp. 188-219.

~Slack, Jennifer Daryl, David James Miller, & Jeffrey Doak. ³The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, and Authority.² JBTC 7 (1993)  12-36.

~John Trimbur. Articulation Theory and the Problem of Determination: A Reading of Lives on the Boundary. JAC 13.1 (1993) (optional)

 

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US CULTURAL STUDIES: CONTACT ZONE

~ Pratt, Mary Louise. "Arts of the Contact Zone" Profession 1991. 33-40

~ Miller, Richard. "Fault Lines in the Contact Zone" College English, Vol. 56, No. 4. (Apr., 1994), pp. 389-408.  (ISU computers only)

 

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~ Porter, James E., Patricia Sullivan, Stuart Blythe, Jeffrey T. Grabill, and Libby Miles. "Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change." College Composition and Communication 51 (2000): 610-642. (ISU computers only)

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SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

 

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SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

 

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FINAL PERIOD. Th. May 6, 12-2  SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

If you wish, you may take an incomplete until May 17 to finish your paper.  See me to arrange it by April 30.