5531 Readings for October 6
I thought I’d post a couple quick notes about the readings for 5531 this week. This is briefer than posts for 8011, because they are not required for 5531… This week, we handled the following: Gage Gage, J. T. (1991). On “Rhetoric” and “Composition”. In E. Lindemannn & G. Tate (Eds.), An Introduction to Composition Studies (pp. 15-32). New York: Oxford University Press. This study tackled the meanings of “rhetoric,” “composition,” and “rhetoric and composition.” He comes to a conclusion that seems altogether commonplace: Rhetoric is “reasoning down from wholes to functional parts” (30) Composition entails the process of “reasoning Read More …