After completing course work, graduate
students in Language and Rhetoric develop exam lists, take written
exams, then sit for an oral examination. Passing "exams" designates one
a "PhC" or "doctoral candidate." Below are sample reading lists.
Brad
Benz [October 1999]
Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches to the Teaching of Writing;
Perspectives on Language Education: Applied Linguistics,
Sociolinguistics,
and Discourse; The History of Writing and the WWW as the Latest Medium
for Writing; Examining the Tension between L1 and L2 Theoretical
Approaches
to Teaching Writing
Steve
Browning
Approaches to Composition Pedagogy, Disciplinarity and Argument; The
Rhetoric of Science; Computers and Composition.
Peter
Clements
Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches to Composition; Perspectives on
Second Language Education; Second Language Writing.
Teagan
Decker
Rhetoric and Composition; Discourse Theory and Discourse Analysis;
Basic Writing, EOP, and Affirmative Action
Heather
Easterling
Disciplinary Thought about Teaching and Pedagogical Thought about
Learning
Kimberly
Emmons
Genre and Disciplinarity; Discourse Analysis; Gender and Language
Gary
Ettari
Composition/Rhetoric
Elizabeth
Falsberg
History of English/Historical Linguistics
Rachel
Goldberg [May 2007]
Rhetoric and Composition; Theories of Language Use; The Academy and the
Public Sphere
Carl
Grove [April 1996]
Language Policy; Theories of Language and Society; Analysis of
Legislative
Discourse; Ideology in Federal Language Policy Decision Making
Kathleen
Harrington
Methodology; Rhetoric and Composition
Gail
Kluepfel [February 1997]
Forms of Written Argument: Knowledge, Inquiry and Persuasion; The
Cognitive
and Social Force of Metaphor and its Contributions to Semantic
Innovations
in Discourses of Inquiry; Theorizing Knowledge from Feminist
Standpoints;
Personal Identity, Discourse Diversity, and the Subject of Composition
in the Multicultural Classroom
Meredith
Lee [Spring 2004]
Language, Class, and Culture; Discourse Analysis and Narrative Theory;
Genre
Theory and Ethnography
PhD Letter
Catherine
McDonald [Spring 2003]
Composition and Rhetoric; Alternative Ways of Knowing;
Ethnographies/Ethnography of Literacy
Raymond
Oenbring [May 2007]
History of Linguistics; Rhetoric and Composition;
Scientific Discourse
Arlene
Plevin [July 1997]
Ecocriticism; The Discourse of the Environmental Movement
Spencer
Schaffner [February 2004]
Composition Studies; Discourse Theory, Genre, Visual Rhetoric, Theories
of Everyday Life; Constructions of Nature.
Christian
Stuart
Composition/Rhetoric; Second Language Writing; Identity.
Amy
Dunham Strand
Language Ideology, Nation, and Gender in Nineteenth Century American
Literature and Culture; Theories in Composition and Rhetoric
Riki
Thompson [December 2004]
Discourse Analysis; Rhetoric and Composition; Survivor Narratives and
Self-Help
Literature: Discourses of Trauma and Recovery
Amy
Vidali [June 2003]
Rhetoric and Composition; Disability Studies in the Humanities;
Discourse Theory, Analysis, and Ideology.
Ann
Wennerstrom [February 1995]
Interlanguage, Cohesion, Intonation in ITA Lecture Discourse, Intonation
Sean
D. Williams [February 1998]
Rhetoric and Composition; Discourse Analysis; The Writing Center
Conference;
Theory of Electronic Argumentation.
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