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	Rhetoric 1A/1B
	1A  "Good Hair", Good Wine 1A  Banality 1A  Craft of Writing s1 F13 1A  Craft of Writing s2 F13 1A  Craft of Writing s3 F13 1A  Craft of Writing s4 F13 1A  Difficult Passages 1A  Feminism in a Colonial Context 1A  Hiding in Plain Sight 1A  Language, Experience, and Argument 1A  Listening to America 1A  Listening to America 1A  Listening to America 1A  No Place Like Home 1A  Reading & Composition 1A  Reason, Emotion and the Body 1A  Revealing is Healing 1A  Revolutions and Revisions and Representations 1A  Rhetoric of Reason 1A  The Rhetoric of Identity in Hybrid Texts 1A  The Rhetoric of the Text 1A  Writing the World 1A.001  Reading & Composition F12 1A.002  Reading & Composition F12 1A.004  Reading & Composition F12 1B  Banality 1B  Banality 1B  Collaborative Assemblages 1B  Craft of Writing s1 F13 1B  Craft of Writing s2 F13 1B  Craft of Writing s3 F13 1B  Craft of Writing 1B  dead words / unsettled bodies 1B  dead words / unsettled bodies 1B  Empire, sovereignty, and violence 1B  Human, All Too Human 1B  Nature, the Human, and Mediation 1B  Performing Research 1B  Reading & Composition 1B  Rhetoric of Reason 1B  Rhetorics of Everyday Life 1B  Rhetorics of the Everyday (Part II) 1B  Somewhere, Anywhere, Elsewhere 1B  Telling Fables, Fictions, and Lies 1B  The American Voice 1B  The Filipino Novel in English 1B  The Idea of Asia 1B.001  Reading & Composition F12 1B.003  Reading & Composition F12
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Rhetoric 1A/1B

Rhetoric 1B: Reading & Composition

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Spring 2012  Instructor(s)  Mark Minch

In this class we will look materially and critically at research as a way both to learn (and unlearn) methods for writing an academic styled research paper and to foray into the uneven grounds of experimentation.  Keeping in mind the relationships between texts, voices, images, places and things, we will develop research skills through close readings of texts, performances and other media.  A guiding theme throughout will be the continuous relationship between Art and Science, the various ways this boundary has been fortified or blurred, and the effects this confusion might have on truth and knowledge.  We will end the class with an exploration of how, within this interval, a figure of the indigene has created, and been created by, impasses of discourse, prompting the possibility for alternative modes of speaking and performing through the theoretico-poetic concepts of the Voice and the Dream.  Some of the questions explored will be:

-how do we know what we know; how do we value this knowledge; and how does this insight construct us and our relationships with others?
-how do we engage with various archives and other sources of authority, specifically through the concepts of voice, body and place?
-what constitutes a place and how does belonging mediate our ways of being in and with one?
-and how can we perform our own research incorporating some of the epistemological, methodological, and experimental practices discussed? 

There will be ongoing writing workshops to develop analytical and stylistic writing abilities.  The course will culminate in group presentations that tie intricately to individual final papers. 

Required Reading

-Class Reader (can be bought at Metro Publishing)
-Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (10th edition) by Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb (can be bought at the ASUC Bookstore)