Required texts:

• Bazerman, C., & Paradis, J. (Eds.) (1991). Textual dynamics of the professions: Historical and contemporary studies of writing in professional communities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Homer. (1990). The Iliad. Trans., R. Fagles; intro., B. Knox. New York: Penguin.
• Kuhn, D. (1991). The skills of argument. Cambridge University Press.
• Latour, B., & Woolgar, S. (1986). Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts. Princeton University Press.
• Ong, W. J. (1982). Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word. London: Routledge.

Unit I: Discourse and Community in Ancient Greece

• Aristotle. (1991). On rhetoric: A theory of civic discourse. Trans., G. A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Auerbach, E. (1953). Mimesis: The representation of reality in Western literature. Trans., W. R. Trask. Princeton University Press.
• Bender, J., & Wellbery, D. E. (Eds.) (1990). The ends of rhetoric: History, theory, practice. Stanford University Press.
• Beye, C. R. (1987). Ancient Greek literature and society, 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Bolter, J. D. (1991). Writing space: The computer, hypertext, and the history of writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Brandt, D. (1990). Literacy as involvement: The acts of writers, readers, and texts. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Bruner, J. (1991). The narrative construction of reality. Critical Inquiry, 18(1): 1-21.
• Burke, K. (1950; 1969). A rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Chafe, W. (1982). Integration and involvement in speaking, writing, and oral literature. In D. Tannen (Ed.), Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and literacy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
• Cicero. (1986). De oratore. In On oratory and orators. Trans. or Ed. J. S. Watson. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Cole, T. (1991). The origins of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University.
• Conley, T. M. (1990). Rhetoric in the European tradition. New York: Longman.
• Corbett, E. P. J. (1990). Classical rhetoric for the modern student, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Crowley, S. (1994). Ancient rhetorics for contemporary students. New York: Macmillan.
• Enos, R. L. (1993). Greek rhetoric before Aristotle. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
• Garver, E. (1994). Aristotle’s Rhetoric: An art of character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Goody, J., & Watt, I. (1968). The consequences of literacy. In J. Goody (Ed.), Literacy in traditional societies. London: Cambridge University Press.
• Graff, H. J. (1987). The legacies of literacy: Continuities and contradictions in Western culture and society. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Havelock, E. A. (1963). Preface to Plato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Havelock, E. A. (1982). The literate revolution in Greece and its cultural consequences. Princeton University Press.
• Kennedy, G. (1963). The art of persuasion in Greece. Princeton University Press.
• Kennedy, G. (1972). The art of persuasion in the Roman world, 300 B.C. - A. D. 300. Princeton University Press.
• Kirk, G. S. (Ed.) (1985-1993). The Iliad: A commentary. 6 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Lessing, G. E. (1766; 1962)  Laocoön: An essay on the limits of painting and poetry. Trans., E. A. McCormick. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Lord, A. B. (1964). The singer of tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.
• Mooney, M. (1985). Vico in the tradition of rhetoric. Princeton University Press.
• Mueller, M. (1986). The Iliad. London: Allen & Unwin.
• Ochs, E. (1979). Planned and unplanned discourse. In Syntax and semantics, volume 12: Discourse and syntax, 51-80. Academic Press.
• Olson, D. R. (1977). From utterance to text: The bias of language in speech and writing. Harvard Educational Review, 47: 257-281.
• Ong, W. J. (1971). Rhetoric, romance, and technology: Studies in the interaction of expression and culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Plato. (1952). Gorgias. Trans. W. C. Helmbold. New York: Macmillan [The Library of Liberal Arts].
• Plato. (1952). Phaedrus. Trans. R. Hackforth. Cambridge University Press.
• Quintilian. (1968). Institutio Oratoria. Trans., H. E. Butler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Schiappa, E. (1991). Protagoras and logos: A study in Greek philosophy and rhetoric. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
• Schmandt-Besserat, D. (1978). The earliest precursor of writing. Scientific American.
• Shotter, J. (1993). Conversational realities: Constructing life through language. London: Sage.
• Silk, M. S. (1987). Homer: The Iliad. Cambridge University Press.
• Steiner, G., & Fagles, R. (Eds.) (1962). Homer: A collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Vickers, B. (1988). In defense of rhetoric. Oxford: Clarendon.
• White, J. B. (1984). When words lose their meaning: Constitutions and reconstitutions of language, character, and community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Yates, F. A. (1966). The art of memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Unit II: Modern Scientific and Technical Discourse

• Bazerman, C. (1988). Shaping written knowledge: The genre and activity of the experimental article in science. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Bijker, W. E., Hughes, T. P., & Pinch, T. J. (Eds.) (1987). The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Bledstein, B. J. (1976). The culture of professionalism: The middle class and the development of higher education in America. New York: Norton.
• Brannigan, A. (1981). The social basis of scientific discoveries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Cheney, G. (1991). Rhetoric in an organizational society: Managing multiple identities. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
• Fahnestock, J. (1986). Accomodating science: The rhetorical life of scientific facts. Written Communication, 3(3): 275-296.
• Foucault, M. (1970). The order of things: An archaeology of the human sciences. Translation of Les mots et les choses. New York: Vintage.
• Gaonkar, D. P. (Summer, 1993). The idea of rhetoric in the rhetoric of science. Southern Communication Journal, 58(4): 258-295.
• Gilbert, G. N., & Mulkay, M. (1984). Opening Pandora’s box: A sociological analysis of scientists’ discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Hacking, I. (1983). Representing and intervening: Introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Herrington, A., & Moran, C. (Eds.) (1992). Writing, teaching, and learning in the disciplines. New York: MLA.
• Knorr-Cetina, K. (1981). The manufacture of knowledge: An essay on the constructivst and contextual nature of science. New York: Oxford.
• Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions, 2nd ed. Chicago: U of C Press.
• Lynch, M. (1985). Art and artifact in laboratory science: A study of shop work and shop talk in a research laboratory. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Lynch, M., & Woolgar, S. (Eds.) (1988). Representation in scientific practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• MacDonald, S. P. (1994). Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• McCarthy, L. P., & Gerring, J. P. (1994). Revising psychiatry’s charter document: DSM-IV. Written Communication, 11(2): 147-192.
• McCloskey, D. N. (1985). The rhetoric of economics. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Margolin, V. (Ed.). (1989). Design discourse: History, theory, criticism. Chicago: U of Chicago P.
• Miller, C. R. (1979). A humanistic rationale for technical writing. College English, 40(6): 610-617.
• Myers, G. (1985). Text as knowledge claims: The social construction of two biology articles. Social Studies of Science, 15: 593-630.
• Nelson, J. S., Megill, A., & McCloskey, D. N. (Eds.) (1987). The rhetoric of the human sciences: Language and argument in scholarship and public affairs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Odell, L., & Goswami, D. (Eds.) (1985). Writing in nonacademic settings. New York: Guilford Press.
• Roberts, R. H., & Good, J. M. M. (Eds.) (1993). The recovery of rhetoric: Persuasive discourse and disciplinarity in the human sciences. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
• Rogers, P. S., & Swales, J. M. (1990). We the people? An analysis of the Dana Corporation policies document. The Journal of Business Communication, 27(3): 293-313.
• Schön, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. New York: Basic Books.
• Stockton, S. (1995). Writing in history: Narrating the subject of time. Written Communication, 12(1): 47-73.
• Sullivan, D. L. (1991). The epideictic rhetoric of science. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 5(3): 229-245.
• White, J. B. (1985). Heracles bow: Essays on the rhetoric and poetics of law. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Woolgar, S. (1988). Science: The very idea. Chichester, England: Ellis Horwood Limited.

Unit III: Public Argument in Contemporary Society

• Billig, M. (1987). Arguing and thinking: A rhetorical approach to social psychology. Cambridge University Press.
• Bitzer, L.F. (1968). The rhetorical situation. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1, 1-14.
• Booth, W. C. (1974). Modern dogma and the rhetoric of assent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Brockriede, W. (1993). Where is argument? In J. L. Golden, G. F. Berquist, & W. E. Coleman (Eds.), The rhetoric of western thought, 5th ed, 486-489. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.]
• Consigny, S. (1974). Rhetoric and its situations. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 7(3): 175-186.
• Crick, B. (1992). In defense of politics, 4th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Eemeren, F. H. van, Grootendorst, R., & Kruiger, T. (1984). The study of argumentation. New York: Irvington Publishers.
• Farrell, T. (1993). The norms of rhetorical culture. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Fisher, A. (1988). The logic of real arguments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Fisher, W. R. (1984). Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument. Communication Monographs, 51(1): 1-22.
• Fisher, W. R. (1978). Toward a logic of good reasons. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, 64(4): 376-384.
• Foss, S. K., & Griffin, C. L. (1995). Beyond persuasion: A proposal for an invitational rhetoric. Communication Monographs, 62(1): 2-18.
• Govier, T. (1987). Problems in argument analysis and evaluation. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications.
• Habermas, J. (1984). The theory of communicative action, Vol I: Reason and the rationalization of society. Trans., T. McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Jamieson, K. H. (1992). Eloquence in an electronic age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Kneupper, C. W. (1984). The tyranny of logic and the freedom of argumentation. Pre/Text, 5(2): 113-121.
• MacIntyre, A. (1981). After virtue: A study in moral theory. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press.
• O’Keefe, D. J. (1976). Two concepts of argument. Journal of the American Forensic Association.
• O’Keefe, D. J. (1990). Persuasion: Theory and research. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE.
• Perelman, C., & Olbrechts-Tyteca, L. (1969). The new rhetoric: A treatise on argumentation. Trans. J. Wilkinson & P. Weaver. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
• Perelman, C. (1982). The realm of rhetoric, trans. W. Kluback. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
• Postman, N. (1985). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business. New York: Viking.
• Rorty, R. (1979). Philosophy and the mirror of nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Scott, R. L. (1967). On viewing rhetoric as epistemic. Central States Speech Journal, 18(1): 9-17.
• Toulmin, S. (1958). The uses of argument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Wallace, K. R. (1963). The substance of rhetoric: Good reasons. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 49(3): 239-249.
• Walton, D. N. (1992). The place of emotion in argument. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press.
• Walton, D. N. (1991). Begging the question: Circular reasoning as a tactic of argumentation. New York: Greenwood Press.
• Walton, D. N. (1988). Burden of proof. Argumentation, 2: 233-254.