Add It Up
Derek wants to know what's in my bag, and I figure a meme is as good a way to ease back into blogging as any. So here's the stuff for this semester:
Miscellany:
Pens, fine-tipped, blue ink
Binder clips
Cellphone (rarely used)
Spare change
Midol
Hearing aid batteries
Winterfresh gum
Keys
Burt's Bees Lip Balm
Burt's Bees Lipstick in Latte
Ruled pad full of to-do's and notes
Three-ring binder full of assigned articles
Texts:
RHET 8011: Research Methods in Scientific and Technical Communication
Required:
Creswell, John W. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches.
Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds. Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry.
Gurak, Laura J. and Lay, Mary M., eds. Research in Technical Communication.
Longo, Bernadette. Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing.
Ancillary:
Turkle, Sherry. Life On the Screen.
Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community.
RHET 8510 – 001 Perspectives on Ethics (Yes, Tutor, I'm finally getting to work on the ethics.)
Required:
Plato, Gorgias.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
White, William Boyd. Heracles’ Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law.
Jonson, Albert R. and Stephen Toulmin. The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning.
Walton, Douglas. The Place of Emotion in Argument.
Buber, Martin. Between Man and Man.
Habermas, Jürgen. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo.
Hyde, Michael J. The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate.
Kant, Critique of Judgment
Recommended:
Johannesen, Richard L. Ethics in Human Communication.
Rehg, William. Insight and Solidarity: The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas.
Davis, Colin. Levinas: An Introduction.
Ancillary:
Porter, James E. Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing.
LAW 6613: Copyright
Required:
Cohen, Loren, Okediji and O’Rourke. Copyright In a Global Information Economy.
Cohen, Loren, Okediji and O’Rourke. Copyright in a Global Information Economy: Case and Statutory Supplement.
Ancillary:
Various texts on how to brief cases and how to be a law student, because I should figure that out.
Currently Missing:
12" PowerBook (on order) and a new pair of reading glasses, which are obviously going to be needed.
Comments
Quite a list! *Note to self*: reading glasses. I'm gonna need some of those too.
Posted by: Derek | September 5, 2004 8:29 AM
Read your bibliography with a something like envy. The topics are so important to our life today in a world created out of thin air, out of words and images, whether in law, advertising, film, government propaganda, talk shows. What are ethics of rhetoric? That is the critical question, the ethics and political theory/legitimation of BS, Blarney and Hype, even of lying. Didn't see Leo Strauss on your list, nor Machiavelli, nor say Stuart Ewen PR!, a History of Spin. I so wish I were in a position to sit in those classrooms and get back up to date on the current work in this field. Blog it, ok? If have time, Monarch notes? Then maybe those of us who are outside the hallowed halls can add in some "cases in point," some case studies, or real life dilemmas for you to take back into your work. To begin with, are their ethics, or professional guideliness that apply to the work commissioned by Karl Rove? To Limbaugh? Coulter? The Swift Boat folks? Adverisments for Nike? The imprinting of Brands on young children? Is this a field where ethics applies, or is it whatever the law allows or passes over in silence? People will do whatever it takes to make a buck or gain power. With what, in the name of what, do we resist? Or, with your postmodern friends, Nietzsche and Foucault, do we simply note that all truth is a lie? And with Goebbels, that all history is writting by the victors? So, Arete, could be double-team some of this? You supply the substance from your readings. I will supply the BS.
Posted by: Tutor | September 5, 2004 9:29 AM
My dear Tutor, you are everything I hoped for - nay, even more.
Posted by: Krista | September 5, 2004 9:42 AM
Hey, Krista, I’m experiencing grad-school envy. With you and that other guy up on the tundra, and now Margaret at Duke, the reading lists are awfully alluring. I never got around to reading Heracles' Bow, and I need to revisit Abuse of Casuistry for a course I’m teaching in the spring.
Posted by: AKMA | September 6, 2004 8:00 AM