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A passing tribute to having wrapped up Dan Roam’s
\nThe Back of the Napkin<\/a><\/i> last
\nnight, I figured why not throw down a few images in the spirit of keeping things
\ncarnivalesque. Roam is a marker-carrying whiteboarder whose core premise is that
\nwe spark insights into complex problems by treating them to a simplified and
\nillustrated version. I doubt that I have played strictly<\/i> by the heuristics
\nhe introduces in the book; nevertheless, I do find some of the stark
\noversimplifications in these first four images helpful for thinking through some
\nof what Kopelson sets up in the article.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Setting aside the pedagogical imperative for a moment, here’s one way I’ve
\ntried to come at the problem of lingering dichotomies in the field. In
\nthis mock up, I don’t mean to imply that the axes are unchanging, but I do find
\nit compelling to ask–at this abstract level–whether they are shifting or
\nwhether we are shifting or both. Both and then some, right? Over the
\ncourse of study in any graduate program, we might expect that orientations would
\nshift. Coursework often encourages this sort of dabbling for the sake of
\nsettling where to avoid and where to be, at least for now. How
\ngreatly these orientations shift depend on many variables, of course, but it
\nstands to reason that they are determined partially by outside factors: the shape
\nof the graduate curriculum, the training and expertise of faculty leading
\nparticular courses, and so on. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"(Endlessly?)<\/a><\/p>\n

Forgive for a second that I’m switching from when?<\/i> to
\nwho?<\/i> in the image below. I have done this simply to suggest that
\ncommittees, too, probably do not crowd into any one box on this (admittedly
\nproblematic) grid. In fact, twenty years ago (even ten years ago?), few
\nprograms had an adequate number of rhet\/comp faculty that a full committee could
\ncoexist on this grid. Why should this matter? Well, for one thing,
\nit seems to me there is some value in having a committee whose perspectives, in
\na highly cooperative and professional manner, differ. This is not<\/i> meant
\nto characterize my committee or anyone’s in particular, but it does suggest how
\nthe "pedagogical imperative" comes to roost: it can be summoned by just one
\nquestion: application?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Committee<\/a><\/p>\n

Another way to split this out is to change "practice" to
\n"application," and then to expect that any proposed project that gravitates in a
\ncorner risks seeming out of touch with the other areas. Does this matter?
\nPerhaps and perhaps not. But I would think a project in which, let’s say,
\nevery chapter is concerned with rhetorical analysis (as rhetoric applied<\/i>) might
\nbe strengthened by certain careful gestures to other areas. This, by the
\nway, doesn’t run afoul of anything in Kopelson’s article. Maybe–if it
\ndoes anything at all–it helps explain how guiding questions come about,
\nespecially when a project is exceedingly committed to a narrowly focused
\n"corner." Kopelson writes, "Yet, as my forthcoming analysis demonstrates,
\nreductive though it is, this account of ‘the battle’ nonetheless reflects a
\ndisciplinary reality: after two decades of discussion, there are corners of the
\ndiscipline in which the conversation remains stalled, where the theory\/practice
\nsplit remains entrenched, and where its resultant pedagogical imperative holds
\nsway" (752). Yes. Still, I am not clear about how to reckon those
\ncorners and the specialization they imply with the more wholesome, middled
\nstances that demand a generalist’s wherewithal. This tension is sharper because
\nof Kopelson’s call for "developing our own brand of specialized knowledge"
\n(751). Should we root that "specialized knowledge" at the crossroads
\n(incidentally, where we find the most corners converging) or elsewhere?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Out<\/a><\/p>\n

Below I have turned from the hypothetical
\ndissertation-in-a-corner to my own. Chs. 1-4 are well-enough drafted that
\nI can justify their positions. Ch. 5 is underway, and these few pages into
\nit, I can see it moving through matters of the rhetoricity of maps to the limits
\nof representationalism as a cartographic imperative (What? You can tell
\njust by that line that I haven’t written the whole thing yet?!). Chapter
\nSix will do everything that remains, and so I have centered it up: bullseye.
\nBut again, beyond indulging in my own reflective moment, I am trying to get
\ntraction on the ways in which these orientations co-exist and play out with
\nconsiderably more refinement in specific cases than they do for something as
\nabstract and unwieldy as the field-at-large. Further, I anticipate questions
\nthat will ask me to explain my choices, given that my committee’s orientations
\nwill not precisely overlap the orientations of these chapters (or: this is some
\nof what happens throughout revisions; or: this is how a candidate does or does not become the spitting image of a committee).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Restoring<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, because by now you are impatient with the grid, one
\nmore sp(l)it image.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Will<\/a><\/p>\n

Kopelson, Karen. “Sp(l)itting
\nImages; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition.” CCC<\/i> 59.4
\n(2008): 750-780. [Carnival<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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