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Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

The course material will introduce students to primary sources by key theorists. Course materials will include instructor-designed course packages composed of theoretical and research-oriented readings.

The following list is an example of potential selections for one reading package for a version of the course on the struggle for the environment::

Edward Corbett: (1971) “A Brief Explanation of Classical Rhetoric,” Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

Richard Coe: (1990) “Persuasion” and “Argument,” Process, Form, and Substance

Kenneth Burke: (1969) “Identification” and “Identification and Consubstantiality,” A Rhetoric of Motives

Lloyd Bitzer: (1980) “The Communication Function,” Rhetoric in Transition (Ed. E.E. White)

Carolyn Miller: (1994) “Rhetorical Community: The Cultural Basis of Genre,” Genre and the New Rhetoric

Amy Devitt, Mary Jo Reiff, and Anis Bawarshi: (2004) “Using Genres to read Scenes of Writing,” Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres

Catherine Schryer: (1994) “The Lab vs. the Clinic: Sites of Competing Genres,” Genre and the New Rhetoric

Aviva Freedman: (2006) “Pushing the Envelope: Expanding the Model of RGS Theory,” Rhetorical Genre Studies and Beyond

Janet Giltrow: (2002) “Meta-Genre,” The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre

Green: (1989) “What is Pragmatics?” Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

Clark: (1992) “Audience Design in Language Use: Chapters 7, 8, 9,”  Arenas of Language

Holland and Lave: (2001) “History in Person: An Introduction,” History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practices, Intimate Identities

Foucault: (1972) “The Discourse on Language,” Appendix to The Archaeology of Knowledge

Bourdieu: (1991) “ Description and Prescription,” Language and Symbolic Power

Case studies selected from the following:

James Cantrill (1996): “Gold, Yellowstone, and the Search for a Rhetorical Identity.” Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America  (Herndl and Brown)

Craig Waddell (1996): “Saving the Great Lakes: Public Participation in Environmental Policy.” Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America  (Herndl and Brown)

Zita Ingham (1996): “Landscape, Drama and Dissensus: The Rhetorical Education of Red Lodge, Montana.” Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America  (Herndl and Brown)

Gregg Walker (2004: “The Roadless Areas Initiative as National Policy: Is Public Participation an Oxymoron?” Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making (Depoe, Delicath, Aepli Elsenbeer)

Steve Schwarze (2004): “Public Participation and (Failed) Legitimation: The Case of Forest Service Rhetorics in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.” Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making (Depoe, Delicath, Aepli Elsenbeer)