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Exams Reading List

Exams Reading List

Owned by George Rhinehart
Last updated: Mar 16, 2025 by Krista Kennedy

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

Banks, A.J., & Gilyard, K. (2018) On African-American rhetoric.Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108636

Browne, K. (2013). Tropic tendencies. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjn5w

Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. University of California Press.

Canagarajah, A.S. (2002). A geopolitics of academic writing. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjn6c

Carey, T. (2016). Rhetorical healing: The reeducation of contemporary Black womanhood. SUNY Press.

Chavez, K. (2012). Queer migration politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities. University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038105.001.0001

Cicero. (2001). De oratore. (J.M. May and J. Wisse, Trans). Oxford University Press.

Clark, I. (2019). Concepts in composition: Theory and practice in the teaching of writing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203728659

Cushman, E. (2013). The Cherokee syllabary: Writing the people’s perseverance. University of Oklahoma Press.

Devitt, A. (2004). Writing genres. Southern Illinois University Press.

Ding, H. (2014). Rhetoric of a global epidemic: Transcultural communication about SARS. Southern University Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2015.1113704

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

García, R., & Baca, D. (Eds.). (2019). Rhetorics elsewhere and otherwise: Contested modernities, decolonial visions. National Council of Teachers of English.

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.

Gold, D. (2008). Rhetoric at the margins: Revising the history of writing instruction in American colleges, 1873-1947. Southern Illinois University Press.

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

Greenfield, L. (2019) Radical writing center praxis: A paradigm for ethical political engagement. Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781607328445

Hawk, B. (2007). A counter-history of composition: Toward methodologies of complexity. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqxd

Horner, B., Lu, M., & Matsuda, P. (Eds.). Cross language relations in composition. Southern Illinois University Press.

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

Kennerly, M., & Pfister, D.S. (Eds.). (2018). Ancient rhetorics and digital networks. University of Alabama Press.

Kerschbaum, S. (2014). Toward a new rhetoric of difference. National Council of Teachers of English.

Kynard, C. (2014). Vernacular insurrections: Race, Black protest, and the new century in composition-literacies studies. State University of New York Press.

LaFrance, M. (2019). Institutional ethnography: A theory of practice for writing studies researchers. Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781607328674

Lipson, C., & Binkley, R.A. (Eds.). (2009). Ancient non-Greek rhetorics. Parlor Press.

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

Malenczyk, R., Miller-Cochran, S., & Wardle, E. (Eds). (2018). Composition, rhetoric, and disciplinarity. Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781607326953

Nickoson, L., & Sheridan, M.P. (Eds.). (2012) Writing studies research in practice: Methods and methodologies. Southern Illinois University Press.

Noble, S.U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. NYU Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwt9w5

Ore, E.J. (2019). Lynching: Violence, rhetoric, and American identity.University Press of Mississippi. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs08j3

Patterson, G.P., & Rawson, K.J. (Eds.). (2020). Transgender rhetorics. [Special Issue]. Peitho, 22(4). 

Restaino, J. (2019). Surrender: Feminist rhetoric and ethics in love and illness. Southern Illinois University Press.

Rhodes, J., & Alexander, J. (2015). Techne: Queer meditations on writing the self. Computers and Composition Digital Press; Utah State University Press.

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

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

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

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

Yergeau, M.R. (2017). Authoring autism: On rhetoric and neurological queerness. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822372189



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