This graduate course fundamentally rejects traditional divisions between “theory” and “practice” and will strive consistently to muddy the distinctions between the two. Our intellectual drift will be in the littoral zone between the “shallows” of everyday classroom concerns and the “deeps” of theory’s musings.
Statement of Teaching Philosophy Assignment
Required Texts
- The Norton Book of Composition Studies, edited by Susan Miller
- Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition, edited by Duane Roen, et al
Recommended Texts
- Fragments of Rationality, by Lester Faigley (required reading for the WCU rhetoric/composition comps)
- Phaedrus, by Plato (required reading for the WCU rhetoric/composition comps)
We will begin the semester with a series of readings excerpted from books by Richard Lanham, Lester Faigley, Patricia Roberts-Miller, and David Foster Wallace, as well as articles by John Dawkins, Catherine Prendergast, and Ian Barnard. Additional, yet-to-be-determined readings will be distributed throughout the semester. Please see the syllabus for full details.
“An F in English?! Bobby, you speak English!”
-Hank Hill, King of the Hill
