We started class with some writing/discussion of the research methods you would use for your thesis work (see prompt posted in the last blog). It sounds like you are all thinking more specifically and concisely about what you will write about for your thesis - and that you are well prepared to develop the concept paper over the break (see posted "directions") to the right. It was pointed out to me that I failed to mail some of you the reference lists I put together for each of your proposed research projects. If you send me an email with a statement of your focus - I will either re-send what I put together before, or edit in light of your changing ideas.
We spend the remainder of class breezing through the chapter on history + narrative studies. I did a show and tell on some historical//narrative studies for the field of composition:
James Berlin's Rhetoric and Reality
Susan Miller's Textual Carnivals
Sharon Crowley's Composition in the University
examples of/ references to historical studies of writing:
Jacqueline Jones Royster Traces in a Stream
Charles Bazermen Handbook on Research on Writing
personal (life narrative) studies of writing:
Morris Young Minor Re/Visions
JoAnn Robinson Education is my Agenda
and I introduced some texts that suggest methods for analyzing historical documents, transcripts, and other texts/conversations/materials made available in historical/narrative approaches.
We did not really discuss Selfe + Hawisher's essay, though I dragged it into the discussion several times = a quick + not-pefect reaction papers is posted.
For next class:
Read: Mertens Chapter 13, with a focus on Quantitative data analysis; Miller, "Where English Departments Come From" p 3. "Current Traditional Rhetorics" (posted to the right), and "Winds of Change" 439.
Write: Concept paper.
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