There is no required text to purchase for the course. I provide all of the reading weeks 1-5, then we integrate your research readings during weeks 6-10:
David Levy, “Meditation on a Receipt” from Scrolling Forward : Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age. (PDF)
Diana George, “The Word On the Street: Public Discourse in a Culture of Disconnect.” (PDF)
Glenn Stillar, Analyzing Everyday Texts, Chapter One (PDF)
- Resources of discourse analysis
- Resources of rhetorical theory
- Resources of social theory
Sue Walker, Typography and Language In Everyday Life, Chapter Four — “Prescription and Practice for Non-Experts.” (PDF)
- Rules for visual organization of public writing
- The extent to which rules are followed in non-expert typography
- Letter-writing practice
Kathryn Schluz, Final Forms: What Death Certificates Can Tell Us, and What They Can’t.
Fleming, David. “Subjects of the Inner City: Writing the People of Cabrini-Green.” Towards a Rhetoric of Everyday Life, ed. Martin Nystrand and John Duffy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. (PDF)