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 18 September 2007

Writing assignments
  1. From the list of required texts, choose one book or one day on which you will lead class discussion.
  2. From the list of recommended texts below, choose one book on which you will report. Your report will take the form of a written summary and analysis of the book, distributed to the class, and a 10-minute in-class presentation on it.
  3. Write a 6- to 15-page reflective synthesis of the perspectives of this course on one of your intellectual areas of interest. Due April 15.
  4. Update your reflective synthesis. Due May 6.
Recommended texts

  1. Angelil-Carter, Shelley. Stolen Language? Plagiarism in Writing. New York: Longman, 2000.
  2. Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale UP, 2006.
  3. Beninger, James R. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard UP, 1986.
  4. Bourdieu, Pierre, Jean-Claude Passeron, and Monique de Saint Martin. 1965. Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power. Stanford UP, 1994.
  5. Bourdieu, Pierre. Language and Symbolic Power. Ed. John B. Thompson. Trans. Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1993.
  6. Carter, Locke, ed. Market Matters: Applied Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2005.
  7. Downing, David B., Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu, eds. Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002.
  8. Ericsson, Patricia Freitag, and Richard Haswell. Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences. Utah State UP, 2006.
  9. Gee, James Paul, Glynda Hull, and Colin Lankshear. The New Work Order: Behind the Language of the New Capitalism. Westview, 1996.
  10. Gibson-Graham, J.K. A Postcapitalist Politics. U Minnesota P, 2006.
  11. Giddens, Anthony. The Constitution of Society: Introduction of the Theory of Structuration. Berkeley: U of California, 1984.
  12. Haas, Christina. Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.
  13. Halbert, Debora. Resisting Intellectual Property. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  14. Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2002.
  15. Masten, Jeffrey, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  16. Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
  17. Ohmann, Richard. English in America: A Radical View of the Profession, with a New Introduction. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996.
  18. Resnick, Stephen A., and Richard D. Wolff. Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy. U Chicago P, 1987.
  19. Rosebush, Judson George, John Dewey, and James Hayden Tufts. The Ethics of Capitalism. Association P, 1923.
  20. Shor, Ira. Culture Wars: School and Society in the Conservative Restoration, 1969-1984. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1986, 1992.
  21. Stock, Patricia Lambert, and Eileen E. Schell, eds. Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.