Thanks, Amanda-- on thing though--we already have a rhetoric
comprehensive exam, and exam that many students have taken. This
comprehensive exam is going to concentrate on composition theory and
pedagogy--although as we all know the two traditions are difficult to
separate.
On Thu, 2 Nov 1995 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I think the following would be valuable reading for a PhD
> exam in comp/rhet (and my congratulations as well for this
> curricular coup!):
>
> Harkin, P. and J. Schilb, eds. Contending with Words: Composition
> and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. MLA, 1991.
>
> Foss, Foss, and Trapp. Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric.
> 2nd ed. Waveland, 1991.
>
> B. Brock, R. Scott, and J. Chesebro, eds. Methods of Rhetorical
> Criticism. 3rd ed., rev. Wayne State UP, 1989.
>
> LeFevre, K. Invention as a Social Act. SIUP, 1987.
>
> Swearingen, C. J. Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and
> Western Lies. Oxford, 1991.
>
> Welch, K. The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric:
> Appropriations of Ancient Discourse. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990.
>
> Ede/Lunsford. Singular Texts/Plural Authors. SIUP, 1991.
>
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> Cheers! --Amanda
>
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