No technology changes so much as writing: over the last several thousand years, we have moved from communicating exclusively through spoken word/gesture, to using user-created images to narrate stories or to catalog events/transactions, to a privileged and exclusive class of writers, to a world turned upside down by mass literacy Read more…
No one escapes education, although the form it takes differs dramatically depending on context. We’ve come to believe that only certain kinds of education matter, and at the university, it’s easy for faculty and students alike to believe that only certain kinds of knowledge, found in certain kinds of books Read more…
English 6625 (Teaching Composition: Theory and Practice) offers graduate students a background in the major theories and pedagogies that continue to shape best practices in the teaching of writing at the college level. Can you remember exactly when you learned to write? or how? Or can you remember the major Read more…
Welcome to the website for English 7665: Ethos & Critical Agency. As a “Special Topics Seminar” in the graduate curriculum of the English department at East Carolina University, this course functions to augment core work in Rhetoric and Composition. Students should expect an advanced course, one which moves quickly beyond Read more…
English 7601 (Research Design in Rhetoric and Composition) and 8601 (Advanced Research Design) combine master’s and doctoral level students in order to facilitate a richer, more engaged discussion of best practices in methods and methodologies for the researcher in Composition and Rhetoric. Scholars in Rhet-Comp continually point to the multi-disciplinarity/transdisciplinarity Read more…