Exams Reading List
CCR Major Examination – Shared Reading List
(revised Spring 2021)
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Books:
Aristotle. (2007) On rhetoric. (G. Kennedy, Trans). Oxford University Publishing.
Baker-Bell, A. (2020). Linguistic justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315147383
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Banks, A.J., & Gilyard, K. (2018) On African-American rhetoric.Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108636
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Browne, K. (2013). Tropic tendencies. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjn5w
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Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. University of California Press.
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Canagarajah, A.S. (2002). A geopolitics of academic writing. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjn6c
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Carey, T. (2016). Rhetorical healing: The reeducation of contemporary Black womanhood. SUNY Press.
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Chavez, K. (2012). Queer migration politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities. University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038105.001.0001
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Cicero. (2001). De oratore. (J.M. May and J. Wisse, Trans). Oxford University Press.
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Clark, I. (2019). Concepts in composition: Theory and practice in the teaching of writing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203728659
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Cushman, E. (2013). The Cherokee syllabary: Writing the people’s perseverance. University of Oklahoma Press.
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Devitt, A. (2004). Writing genres. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Ding, H. (2014). Rhetoric of a global epidemic: Transcultural communication about SARS. Southern University Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2015.1113704
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Dolmage, J.T. (2018). Disabled upon arrival: Eugenics, immigration, and the construction of race and disability. The Ohio State University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1h45mm5
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García, R., & Baca, D. (Eds.). (2019). Rhetorics elsewhere and otherwise: Contested modernities, decolonial visions. National Council of Teachers of English.
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Geisler, C., & Swarts, J. (2020). Coding streams of language: Techniques for the systemic coding of text, talk, and other verbal data. The WAC Clearing House; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PRA-B.2019.0230
Glenn, C. (2018). Rhetorical feminism and this thing called hope.Southern Illinois University Press.
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Gold, D. (2008). Rhetoric at the margins: Revising the history of writing instruction in American colleges, 1873-1947. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Gonzales, L. (2018). Sites of translation: What multilinguals can teach us about digital writing and rhetoric. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9952377
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Greenfield, L. (2019) Radical writing center praxis: A paradigm for ethical political engagement. Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781607328445
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Hawk, B. (2007). A counter-history of composition: Toward methodologies of complexity. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqxd
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Horner, B., Lu, M., & Matsuda, P. (Eds.). Cross language relations in composition. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Inoue, A.B. (2017). Antiracist writing assessment ecologies: Teaching and assessing writing for a socially just future. Parlor Press. https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2015.0698
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Kennerly, M., & Pfister, D.S. (Eds.). (2018). Ancient rhetorics and digital networks. University of Alabama Press.
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Kerschbaum, S. (2014). Toward a new rhetoric of difference. National Council of Teachers of English.
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Kynard, C. (2014). Vernacular insurrections: Race, Black protest, and the new century in composition-literacies studies. State University of New York Press.
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LaFrance, M. (2019). Institutional ethnography: A theory of practice for writing studies researchers. Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781607328674
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Lipson, C., & Binkley, R.A. (Eds.). (2009). Ancient non-Greek rhetorics. Parlor Press.
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Lockett, A. L., Ruiz, I. D., Sanchez, J. C., & Carter, C. (2021). Race, rhetoric, and research methods. WAC Clearing House. https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2021.1206
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Malenczyk, R., Miller-Cochran, S., & Wardle, E. (Eds). (2018). Composition, rhetoric, and disciplinarity. Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781607326953
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Nickoson, L., & Sheridan, M.P. (Eds.). (2012) Writing studies research in practice: Methods and methodologies. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Noble, S.U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. NYU Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwt9w5
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Ore, E.J. (2019). Lynching: Violence, rhetoric, and American identity.University Press of Mississippi. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs08j3
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Patterson, G.P., & Rawson, K.J. (Eds.). (2020). Transgender rhetorics. [Special Issue]. Peitho, 22(4).
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Restaino, J. (2019). Surrender: Feminist rhetoric and ethics in love and illness. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Rhodes, J., & Alexander, J. (2015). Techne: Queer meditations on writing the self. Computers and Composition Digital Press; Utah State University Press.
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Ridolfo, J., & Hart-Davidson, W. (Eds.). (2015). Rhetoric and the digital humanities. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226176727.001.0001
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Ruiz, I.D., & Sánchez, R. (2016). Decolonizing rhetoric and composition studies: New Latinx keywords for theory and pedagogy. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52724-0
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Schell, E.E., & Rawson, K.J. (Eds.). (2010). Rhetorica in motion: Feminist rhetorical methods and methodologies. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkff8
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Vieira, K. (2016). American by paper: How documents matter in immigrant literacy. University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816697519.001.0001
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Yergeau, M.R. (2017). Authoring autism: On rhetoric and neurological queerness. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822372189
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Articles/Chapters:
Bokor, M.J.K. (2014). When the drum speaks: The rhetoric of motion, emotion, and action in African societies. Rhetorica, 32(2), 165-194. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2014.32.2.165
Bonilla-Silva, E. (2017). The strange enigma of race in contemporary America. In Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America, 1-24. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Brandt, D. (1998). Sponsors of literacy. College Composition and Communication, 49(2), 165-185. https://doi.org/10.2307/358929
Clark, D. (2009). Shaped and shaping tools: The rhetorical nature of technical communication technologies. In R. Spilka (Ed.), Digital literacy for technical communication: 21st century theory and practice (pp. 85-102). Routledge.
Cobos, C., Raquel Rios, G., Johnson Sackey, D., Sano-Franchini, J., & Haas, A.M. (2018). Interfacing cultural rhetorics: A history and a call. Rhetoric Review, 37(2), 139-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2018.1424470
Dryer, D. B. (2019). Divided by primes: Competing meanings among writing studies' keywords. College English, 81(3), 214-255. Link.
Gorgias. (1972). Encomium of Helen. In R.K. Sprague (Ed.), The older sophists: A complete Translation (pp. 50-54). University of South Carolina Press.
Haas, A.M. (2012). Race, rhetoric, and technology: A case study of decolonial technical communication theory, methodology, and pedagogy. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 26(3), 277-310. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651912439539
Lewis, J.E., Arista, N., Pechawis, A., & Kite, S. (2018). Making kin with the machines. Journal of Design and Science, 3(5). https://doi.org/10.21428/bfafd97b
Miller, C.R. (1979). A humanistic rationale for Technical Writing. College English, 40(6), 610-617. https://doi.org/10.2307/375964
Miller, C.R. (1984). Genre as social action. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 70(2), 151-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638409383686
Poulakos, J. (1983). Toward a sophistic definition of rhetoric. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 16(1), 35-48. Link.
Sackey, D.J. (2019). Perspectives on cultural and posthumanist rhetorics. Rhetoric Review, 38(4), 375-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2019.1654760
Sample, M., & Vee, A. (2012, October 10). The role of computational literacy in computers and writing. Enculturation. Link.
Thatcher, B. (2006). Intercultural rhetoric, technology transfer, and writing in US–Mexico border maquilas. Technical Communication Quarterly, 15(3), 385-405. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15427625tcq1503_6
Van Haitsma, P. (2014). Queering the language of the heart: Romantic letters, genre instruction, and rhetorical practice. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 44(1), 6-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2013.861009
Villanueva, V. (2004). “Memoria” is a friend of ours: On the discourse of color. College English, 67(1), 9-19. https://doi.org/10.2307/4140722
Wan, A.J. (2011). In the name of citizenship: The writing classroom and the promise of citizenship. College English, 74(1), 28-49. Link.
Yergeau, M.R., Brewer, E., Kerschbaum, S., Oswal, S., Price, M., Salvo, M., Selfe, C., & Howes, F. (2013). Multimodality in motion: Disability and kairotic spaces. [Special Issue]. Kairos, 18(1).
You, X. (2006). The Way, multimodality of ritual symbols, and social change: Reading Confucius’s Analects as rhetoric. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 36(4), 425-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773940600868028