Schedule


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 RhetoricPart 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 RhetoricPart 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 RhetoricPart 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 RhetoricPart 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 RhetoricPart 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 RhetoricPart 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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