I have a disease; I see language.Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes

Collin Gifford BrookeSyracuse University

Visually Re/Framing the Genres of Graduate Education

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“Disciplinary Genre Competence”

Artemeva and Fox, “Awareness Versus Production: Probing Students’ Antecedent Genre Knowledge.” JBTC 24 (October 2010): 476-515.

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“Absent direct instruction, graduate education in English assumes that students learn how to write critically through repeated exposure and an osmosis-like process” (485).

Micciche & Carr, “Toward Graduate-Level Writing Instruction.” CCC 62 (Feb 2011): 477-501.4

“...I inform my experience, I deliberately begin reading, with an intention to experience the material constitution of the text. It is as if a type-designer invited me to look at the design of his type as he discussed type-design.”Joseph Williams, “The Phenomenology of Error.” CCC 32 (1981): 152-168.

Seeing Language

“...a field this large cannot be understood by stitching together separate bits of knowledge about individual cases, because it isn’t a sum of individual cases; it’s a collective system, that should be grasped as such, as a whole...”Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory

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close readingmaterial constitution

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distant readingcollective system

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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network

The physical fact of the text, with its spatial appearance on the page, requires visual apprehension: a text can be seen, must be seen, in a process which is essentially different from the perception of speech.

Stephen Bernhardt, “Seeing the Text”

CCC 37.1 (1986)

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Tables of Contentstopical

Bibliographiesalphabetical

Course Syllabichronological

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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network

Carolyn Miller, “Genre as Social Action”9

Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network

tagclouds/wordlesas elevation mapsof texts

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NY Times, DNC/RNC coverage, 200811

Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network

Carolyn Miller, “Genre as Social Action”12

Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network

Derek Mueller, “Digital Underlife in the Networked Writing Classroom” Computers and Composition 26.4 (2009).

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20 years of College Composition and Communicationdelicious.com/ccco

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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network

Valdis Krebs, “Divided We Stand...Still” (2004)15

Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network

Christopher Warnow, “A Thousand Milieus”

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Seeing Language: Page Text Intertext Network

Dan Wang, “Is There a Canon in Economic Sociology?”Accounts 11.2 (2012)

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For writers to make things happen...they must understand the directions in which a field is developing at any given time and possess the rhetorical savvy necessary for positioning their work within it..

Berkenkotter and Huckin, Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication 18

Defamiliarization

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the creation of methods of interpretation that are generative and iterative, capable of producing new knowledge through the aesthetic provocation of graphical expressions.

Graphesis

Johanna Drucker, Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing20

Allegorithm (Algorithm + Allegory) Alexander Galloway, Gaming

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Collin Gifford BrookeSyracuse University

Image and text credits available at: http://www.cgbrooke.net/genre12

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