CCR 712
Advanced Theory and Philosophy of Composition: Economies of Writing

Section **
Spring 2008
Syracuse University
Time: Thursdays 9:30-12:20
Place: 020 HB Crouse


Instructor:
Rebecca Moore Howard
Office: 237 HB Crouse
Office hours
Phone 315-443-1620
FAX: 315-691-9821
rehoward@syr.edu
AIM: ProfBfromWV


Last updated 10 January 2008

Required texts
  1. Bourdieu, Pierre. The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power. 1989. Trans. Lauretta C. Clough. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1996.
  2. Bousquet, Marc. How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. NYU Press, 2008.
  3. Gibson-Graham, J.K. The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. U Minnesota P, 2006.
  4. Horner, Bruce. Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique. Ithaca, NY: SUNY P, 2000.
  5. Lanham, Richard. The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information. U Chicago P, 2006.
  6. Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: Penguin, 2004.
  7. Logie, John. Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates. West Lafayette: Parlor P, 2006.
  8. Marsh, Bill. Plagiarism: Alchemy and Remedy in Higher Education. Albany: SUNY, 2007.
Coursepack
  1. Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Forms of Capital." Soziale Ungleichheiten. Ed. Reinhard Kreckel. Goettingen: Otto Schartz, 1983. 183-98. Rpt. Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education. Ed. John G. Richardson. Trans. Richard Nice. New York: Greenwood P, 1986. 241-60.
  2. Bousquet, Marc. "Composition as Management Science: Toward a University without a WPA." JAC 22.3 (2002): 493-526.
  3. Butler, Paul. "Copyright, Plagiarism, and the Law." Authorship in Composition Studies. Ed. Tracy Hamler Carrick and Rebecca Moore Howard. New York: Wadsworth, 2006. 13-27.
  4. Constable, Giles. "Forgery and Plagiarism in the Middle Ages." Archiv fur Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte, Siegel-und Wappenkunde 29 (1983): 1-41.
  5. Crowley, Sharon. "How the Professional Lives of WPAs Would Change If FYC Were Elective." The Writing Program Administrator's Handbook: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Change and Practice. Ed. Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 219-232.
  6. Lerner, Neal. "Internal Outsourcing of Academic Support: The Lessons of Supervised Study." WPA: Writing Program Administration 29.1-2 (Fall 2005): 81-96.
  7. Lunsford, Andrea Abernethy. "Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Politics of Textual Ownership." College English 61.5 (May 1999): 529-44.
  8. Lunsford, Andrea A., and Susan West. "Intellectual Property and Composition Studies." College Composition and Communication 47.3 (Oct. 1996): 383-411.
  9. Murphy, Christina, and Joe Law. "The Disappearing Writing Center Within the Disappearing Academy: The Challenges and Consequences of Outsourcing in the Twenty-First Century." The Politics of Writing Centers. Eds. Jane Nelson and Kathy Evertz. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2001. 133-146.
  10. Nemko, Marty. "Professor: Executive Summary." U.S. News & World Report 19 Dec. 2007.
  11. O'Neill, James M. "Professors Get 'F' in Copyright Protection Knowledge." Seattlepi.com 20 Nov. 2006.
  12. Ritter, Kelly. "The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition." College Composition and Communication 56.4 (June 2005): 601-631.
  13. Rose, Mark. "Nine-Tenths of the Law: The English Copyright Debates and the Rhetoric of the Public Domain." Law and Contemporary Problems 66 (Winter-Spring 2003): 78-87.
  14. Saltmarsh, Sue. "Graduating Tactics: Theorising Plagiarism as Consumptive Practice." Journal of Further and Higher Education 28.4 (2004): 445-454.
  15. Schell, Eileen. "What's the Bottom-Line? Literacy and Quality Education in the Twenty-First Century." Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education. Ed. Patricia Lambert Stock and Eileen E. Schell. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. 324-340.
  16. Stansbury, Meris. "'Fair Use' Confusion Threatens Media Literacy." eSchool News 9 Oct. 2007.
  17. Stearns, Laurie. "Copy Wrong: Plagiarism, Process, Property, and the Law." Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World Ed. Alice Roy and Lise Buranen. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999. 5-18.
  18. Steel, Karl. "Today's Letter of Complaint: The Profession." In the Middle 4 Jan. 2008.
  19. Strickland, Donna. "How to Compose a Capitalist: The Predicament of Required Writing in a Free Market Curriculum." Composition Forum 9.1 (Spring 1998): 25-38.

    Recommended texts

    You will also present your reading of one additional book to the class.