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A full month has blinked by in this run-up to the start of classes on August 26. That’s the day of our first meeting in ENGL6524: Theories of Written Communication<\/em>. Recent weeks at the end of Rosemary Road included welcoming four new pullets, building a new coop and run, welcoming a rooster, hosting A’s friend from Minnesota, hosting Is. and then driving her to Michigan for her birthday, completing the final external promotion review letter of the season, and keeping aging grandpa’s pace with the rest of it all. This week I picked back up with class preparations, and I am making headway on the online hub for the class and the documents that will live there: syllabus, schedule, project descriptions, and bibliography. Here, for example, is the elaborated course description I settled on well enough to plug it into the landing page and syllabus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our seminar-styled study of theories of written communication<\/em> this semester will begin with 1) considerations of what theory (\u03b8\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03ad\u03c9<\/em>, the\u00f3re\u00f3, \ud83d\udd2d) is and what it does, 2) how\/why to engage with the theorizing sojourns and sightings of others, and 3) how this “bloom space” called theory has made us feel, especially as it hands a bouquet of possibilities to writing and rhetoric. Together we will read articles and chapters, book intros, and dissertation intros grouped with selected theoretical antecedents, thereby listening carefully for how theory circulates. Themes among these small sets include -isms<\/em> and -graphies<\/em>, root metaphors, academic writing and its alternatives, intellectual genealogies, expertise, rationalism, literacy development, and how we write. Readings will include selections by Gloria Anzald\u00faa, Mikhail Bakhtin, Deborah Brandt, Michel de Certeau, Manuel DeLanda, Yrj\u00f6 Engestr\u00f6m, Harvey Graff, Joy Harjo, Cynthia Haynes, Julia Molinari, Beverly Moss, Stephen Pepper, Louise Phelps, Michael Polanyi, Malea Powell, Paul Prior & Jody Shipka, Jenny Rice, Jacqueline Royster, Kathleen Stewart, Eve Tuck & C. Ree, and more. Class activities will include weekly writing, discussion, a substantive project (Theory Deck\/Microanthology), a presentation, and a course reflection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For five or six semesters I have focused weekly writing on delimited increments called Nineties, which are ninety word flash responses later tuned stylistically because a ninety must have ninety words (allowing \u00b15) or a multiple of ninety. Like with The Hundreds, the incrementalism tends to elicit intensities, touched nerves, goose bumps, books thrown across the room, PDFs dragged to Trash, the felt weight of worlding now. So, 185 words is okay, as is 87 words. But 200 words is a bust. Although it may seem at first wrapped too snugly in a quantitative obsessiveness, it abides the principle of liberation by constraint, providing one less thing to think about, encouraging stylistic precision, and implicitly inventing an economy of intentional scope (favoring neither reductionism or expansionism by default). I continue to think there is value in a short planning pitch around Week Four or Five, and a share-out pitch nearer to the end of the semester, but then again, the schedule is busting at the seams and the readings and step-back readings will have to be cut back if there are two pitches. The larger project is also taking shape, though I have not written a prompt yet. I foresee it living up to the title Theory Deck\/Microanthology, and assembling through defined sections: cover, frontmatter\/intro, three articles, chapters, or excerpts, each with two theoretical antecedents (so six<\/s> nine<\/em> pieces total), and a glossary of 6-8 elaborated keywords. Each section will have a suggested deadline, and then the eleven seminar participants will alert me to what sort of feedback they would like to receive: conference, audio comments, written comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am still sorting out the order of readings and project pieces, and I am fairly sure I will have to scale back a bit (to say nothing of whether I have the willpower to stand at the scanner for hours getting this into accessible shape). I have already begun to understand that the book and dissertation intros will have to scale down from four of each to “choose one” from a set of four options, but even this might turn out to feeling denser than we’d like. Cake sponge needs air bubbles. And some class meetings will give us 30-40 minutes at the end for returning to the in-progress projects and for pace-keeping check-ins. Allowing for that possibility, here are the readings I am, for now, feeling good enough about and taking steps to assemble. Weekly placeholders are lightly and noncommittally noted, and second tier bullets are the corresponding step-backs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Eve Tuck and C. Ree, “A Glossary of Haunting” (2013) (Week2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Stephen Pepper, World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence<\/em> (1942) (excerpt) (Week3)
    Julia Molinari, What Makes Writing Academic<\/em> (2022) (excerpt) (Week3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jacqueline Royster, “Academic Discourses or Small Boats on a Big Sea,” AltDis<\/em> (Week4)\n
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    • Deborah Brandt, Literacy as Involvement <\/em>(1990), excerpt<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Beverly Moss, “Creating a Community: Literacy Events in African-American Churches,” Literacy Across Communities<\/em> (1994)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Malea Powell, “Listening to Ghosts: An Alternative to (Non)Argument,” AltDis<\/em> (Week5)\n
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      • Michel de Certau\u2019s The Practice of Everyday Life<\/em> (1984) (excerpt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Joy Harjo, “The Woman Who Fell From the Sky” (1994)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Jenny Rice\u2019s CE<\/em> article, \u201cPara-Expertise, Tacit Knowledge, and Writing Problems\u201d (2015) (Week6)\n
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        • Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension<\/em> (excerpt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects<\/em> (2007) (excerpt)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Cynthia Haynes\u2019 JAC<\/em> article (later updated in The Homesick Phone Book<\/em> (2016)), \u201cWriting Offshore\u201d (2003) (Week7) \n
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          • Gerald Graff, \u201cHidden Intellectualism\u201d (2001)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Manuel DeLanda, \u201cExtensive Borderlines and Intensive Borderlines\u201d (1998)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Paul Prior and Jody Shipka\u2019s \u201cChronotopic Lamination\u201d (2003) (Week8)\n
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            • Mikhail Bakhtin\u2019s The dialogic imagination<\/em> (1981) (excerpt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Yrj\u00f6 Engestr\u00f6m. From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work (2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Gloria Anzald\u00faa, “Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process,” Counterpoints<\/em>, 1999, Vol. 90, How We Work<\/em> (1999), pp. 241-261 (Week10)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Louise Phelps, “Rhythm and Pattern in a Composing Life.” Ed. Thomas Waldrep. Writers on Writing, Vol. 1<\/em>. New York: Random House. 1985. 241-57. (Week10)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Book intros or first chapters (Choose one.) (Week11)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • J. Logan Smilges’ Queer Silence<\/em> (U Minnesota P, 2022)\n
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              • Manning, Erin. The Minor Gesture. <\/em>Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. (excerpt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Malhotra, Sheena, and Aimee Carrillo Rowe, eds. Silence, Feminism, Power:<\/em> Reflections at the Edges of Sound. <\/em>London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. (excerpt)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Debra Hawhee, A Sense of Urgency<\/em> (U Chicago P, 2023)\n
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                • Fukushima, Annie Isabel. Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the US<\/em>. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. (excerpt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Vivian, Bradford. \u201cWitnessing Time: Rhetorical Form, Public Culture, and Popular Historical Education.\u201d Rhetoric Society Quarterly<\/em> 44, no. 3 (May 27, 2014): 204\u201319.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Jennifer LeMesurier, Inscrutable Eating<\/em> (Ohio State UP, 2023)\n
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                  • Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others<\/em>. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. (excerpt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Oum, Young Rae. \u201cAuthenticity and Representation: Cuisines and Identities in Korean-American Diaspora.\u201d Postcolonial Studies<\/em> 8, no. 1 (2005): 109\u201325.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Eric Detweiler, Responsible Pedagogy<\/em> (Penn State UP, 2022)\n
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                    • Arendt, Hannah. “Reflections on Little Rock.” Dissent<\/em> (Winter 1959): 45-56.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • Ellison, Ralph. \u201cLeadership from the Periphery.\u201d In Who Speaks for the Negro?<\/em> by Robert Penn Warren, 268\u2013354. New Haven: Yale UP, 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • Dissertation intros or first chapters (Choose one.) (Week12)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • Walwema, Josephine. Tactile Interfaces: Epistemic <\/em>Techne in Information Design<\/em> (2011, Clemson)\n
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                      • Buchanan, Richard. “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking.” The Idea of Design<\/em>. Ed. Victor Margolin and Richard Buchanan. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. Print. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word<\/em>. London: Routledge, 1982. Print. (excerpt)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • Sackey, Donnie. The Curious Case of the Asian Carp: Spatial Performances and the Making of an Invasive Species<\/em> (2013, MSU)\n
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                        • Mol, Annemarie. (1999). Ontological politics: A word and some questions<\/em>, in J. Law and J. Hassard (Eds.), Actor network theory and after (74-89). Malden, MA: Blackwell and the Sociological Review.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                        • Callon, Michael, and Law, John. (1982). On interests and their transformation: Enrollement and counter-enrolment. Social Studies of Science<\/em>, 12(4), 615- 625.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                        • Faris, Michael. Rhetoric, Social Media, and Privacy<\/em> (2012, Penn State)\n
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                          • Cooper, Marilyn M. “The Ecology of Writing.” College English<\/em> 48.4 (1986): 364-375. Print. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                          • Wysocki, Anne, and Johndan Johnson Eilola. “Blinded by the Letter: Why Are We Using Literacy as a Metaphor for Everything Else?” Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies<\/em>. Eds. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan: Utah State UP, 1999. 349-368. Print.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                          • Carr, Allison. Negative Space: Toward an Epistemology of Failure<\/em> (2014, Cincinnati)\n
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                            • Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary<\/em>. New York: Penguin, 1989. Print.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            • Stewart, Kathleen. (2010) ‘Worlding Refrains’ in M. Gregg & G. Seigworth (eds) (2010) The Affect Theory Reader<\/em>. London: Duke University Press, pp. 339-53.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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                              Heap for scanning selections. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

                              I glance it and see a heap of a list, with pairings or trios matched with ten of the fourteen weekly meetings. I’ve opted for no readings ahead of meeting one, the 26th. And I want to hold as a clearing Week Nine for project starts and for a round of dialogue focused on one well-begun component. Readings fall away at the end of the semester, too, allowing space in the two meetings after the late November break for short form presentations about the projects and for reflecting on what theories of written communication amounted to. My hope as I continue planning is that by the end and all throughout, ENGL6524 will feel like something we’ve been in, recalling that line I can’t stop thinking about from Kathleen Stewart’s “Worlding Refrains,” “Anything can feel like something you\u2019re in, fully or partially, comfortably or aspirationally, for good or not for long” (340).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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