CORE TEXTS:
• Amy E. Robillard and Ron Fortune, eds., Authorship Contested: Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author
• Krista Kennedy, Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and the Chambers’ Cyclopedia
• Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric
WEEK 1 • Foundations: The Continental Critique of Authorship
January 22 - Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”; Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?”; Negotiate timing of weekly writing assignment.
WEEK 2 • Authorship Contested I-II
January 29 - Robillard and Fortune, Authorship Contested, Parts I and II; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 3 • Authorship Contested III-IV
February 5 - Robillard and Fortune, Authorship Contested, Parts III and IV; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 4 • Curation Then
February 12 - Kennedy, Textual Curation, Introduction through Chapter 3. 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 5 • Curation Now
February 19 - Kennedy, Textual Curation, Chapter 4 through Conclusion; and Kennedy, “Textual Curation” 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 6 • Historical Contexts of Digital Writing
February 26 - ; Alexander and Rhodes, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, Part I: Cultural & Historical Contexts; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm; Final Project Proposals DUE, Friday, March 1 by 1pm (or before).
WEEK 7 • Moving Beyond Pages
March 5 - Alexander and Rhodes, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, Part II: Beyond Writing; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 8 • Digital Rhetorics
March 12 - Alexander and Rhodes, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, Part III: Being Rhetorical & Digital; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 9 • SPRING BREAK
WEEK 10 • Authors, Rhetors, and Selves
March 26 - Alexander and Rhodes, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, Part IV: Selves & Subjectivities; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 11 • Regulation, Control, and Writing
April 2 - Alexander and Rhodes, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, Part V: Regulation & Control;
500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 12 • New(?) Modes of Composition
April 9 - Alexander and Rhodes, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, Part VI: Multimodality, Transmediation & Participatory Cultures; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 13 • Politics, Economics, and How We Compose
April 16 - Alexander and Rhodes, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, Part VII: The Politics & Economics of Digital Writing & Rhetoric; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 14 • Ownership, Authorship, and Copyright
April 23 - SNEAK PREVIEW: Lunsford, Logie, and Herrington, eds. Kairos Special Issue on Ownership, Authorship, and Copyright; 500 words DUE Monday @ 1pm
WEEK 15 • The AC&C Model Conference
April 30 - In-class model conference presentations.
WEEK 16 • THE FINAL STEPS . . .
May 5 - Final reflections, course evaluations. Final Projects DUE: Friday May 9 by Noon.
NOTE: This is a plan, not a contract. If I am able to identify opportunities to tweak or deveop this schedule in ways that will improve our collective experience, I reserve the right to do so. I will provide notice via e-mail if and when any substantive changes are made to this schedule.
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