Keyword Entries

Participants in this seminar will be joining other seminars in contributing to a wiki database of entries on topics relating to the theory and teaching of rhetoric and composition studies. You will choose two “keywords” to work on for this course; selections include any term/concept (digital divide, multitude, doxa), or theorist (Bernard Stiegler, Isocrates, Martin Heidegger) that has a significant relation to, or intersection with, the interests of contemporary rhetoric/composition.

Your entries should be fairly comprehensive, but maintain some clear focus on the significance of the object under review to scholars/teachers of rhetoric and composition. As I mentioned in class, a good guide is to try to split the difference between wikipedia and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (see her, for instance, the entries on “identity politics” for each by clicking on the links above). Importance (of the topic in rhetoric/composition) and complexity (of defining it) should guide the length of the entry, but use a 1,000 words as your suggestive guideline.

You entries are due before the last meeting of our seminar (12/11) but you are of course welcome to submit early.  When you’ve chosen  the term(s) you’d like to compose entries for, e-mail me for approval; once approved, I’ll add the list of keywords (and their authors) to this page to keep a running record of what terms participants are working on.

ASSIGNMENTS

• Allen: Digital Divide
• Duprey: Peter Elbow; Geoffrey Sirc
• McGinnis: ethos; sophist
• Mooty-Hoffmann: Computers & Composition (field); Gregory Ulmer
• Risse: heuristic
• Shaw-Draves: orality
• Starkey: Disability Studies; progymnasta
• Vought: Gilles Deleuze; kairos
• UP 4 GRABS: Wayne Booth; Conference on College Composition and Communication; Computers & Composition (journal); Computers & Composition (field); Robert Connors; Edward Corbett; Jacques Derrida; dialectic; digital divide; doxa; Peter Elbow; episteme; Gorgias; Stuart Hall; information architecture; Marshall McLuhan; New Directions in Computers and Composition (book series);  Donald Murray; Walter Ong; Edward Schiappa; Geoff Sirc; techne; Gregory Ulmer; Victor Vitanza; Watson Conference on Rhetorica and Composition