All readings can be found in this Google Drive folder. I have also linked the individual PDFs below. Always check the Homework and Course Schedule page for the most up-to-date list of reading assignments. 

 

Textbook:

Jack, Jordynn and Katie Rose Guest Pryal. How Writing Works: A Guide to Composing Genres. New York, NY: Oxford U.P., 2014.

PDF Readings:

Burton, Gideon O. “What is Rhetoric?” Silvae Rhetoricae. Web. 9 January 2014. (Article can also be found online, here.)

Burton, Gideon O. “Content and Form.” Silvae Rhetoricae. Web. 9 January 2014. (Article can also be found online, here.)

Losh, Elizabeth, Jonathan Alexander, et al. “Issue 1: Why Rhetoric?” Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing. Elizabeth Losh, Jonathan Alexander, et al. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. Print.

Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. vol. 1. Ed. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Creative Commons, 2010. Ebook. (Article can also be found online, here.)

Gladstone, Brooke and Josh Neufield. “Introduction.” The Influence Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media. New York, NY: WW Norton and Co., 2012. Print.

Faigley, Lester, Diana George, et al. Picturing Texts. New York, NY: WW Norton, 2004. *Please read pp. 22-25, 48-55, 111-115, and 384-398*

Gee, James P. “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction.” Journal of Education 171.1 (1989): 5-17. Web. 15 August 2013.

Kahn, Seth. “Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. vol. 2. Ed. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Creative Commons, 2011. Ebook. (Article can also be found online, here.)

Ellis, Carolyn S. and Arthur Bochner. “Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject” The Handbook of Qualitative Research. Ed. Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln. Sage, 2000. 733-768.

Gladstone, Brooke and Josh Neufield. “Canis Journalisticus.” The Influence Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media. New York, NY: WW Norton and Co., 2012. Print.

—.  “News You Can’t Use.” The Influence Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media. New York, NY: WW Norton and Co., 2012. Print.

—.  “Birds on a Wire.” The Influence Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media. New York, NY: WW Norton and Co., 2012. Print.

Nijhuis, Michelle. “The Science and Art of Science Writing.” Draft. The New York Times (9 December 2013). NewYorkTimes.com. (Article can also be found online, here.)

Manjoo, Farhad. “You Won’t Finish This Article: Why People Online Don’t Read to the End.”Slate. 6 June 2013. Web. (Article can also be found online, here.)

—        “You Did Finish That Article! Well, Some of You Anyway.” Slate. 14 June 2013. Web. 7 July 2013. (Article can also be found online, here.)

Goodreads. “The Psychology of Abandonment.” infographic. Goodreads.com. 9 July 2013. Web. 12 July 2013. (Article can also be found online, here.)

Gladstone, Brooke and Josh Neufield. “The Great Refusal.” The Influence Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media. New York, NY: WW Norton and Co., 2012. Print.

—.  “Bias.” The Influence Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media. New York, NY: WW Norton and Co., 2012. Print.

Singh-Corcoran, Nathalie. “Composition as a Write of Passage.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. vol. 2. Ed. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Creative Commons, 2011. Ebook. (Article can also be found online, here.)

Thaiss, Chris and Terry Myers Zawacki. “Student Expectations for Writing in Their Disciplines.” Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life. Chris Thaiss and Terry Myers Zawacki. Portsmouth, NH ; Boynton/Cook, 2006. Print. 101-112.