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ENGL 2013W: "The Power of Publics" - Coggle Diagram
ENGL 2013W: "The Power of Publics"
Chapters from
Bad Ideas about Writing
Essays by Michael Warner
"Public and Private"
"Publics and Counterpublics"
How is the concept of publics different from other ways of thinking about the social contexts of writing, like "audience" or "group"? How do publics exert constraints on discourse? How can one public differ from another?
What's the difference between "a public" and "The Public"? In what sense are publics political?
Project 1: Fieldwork on a Public
Interview Questions
Plan
Presentation on findings, D1 & D2
James Porter, "Intertextuality and Discourse Community"
How are the specialized cultural values and practices of social groups evident in the form of writing? How is the structure and form of one written text related to the structure and form of another text?
Karin Barber, "Anthropology and Text"
How does language become text, so it is repeatable across situations? How do new meanings emerge from the same linguistic forms and structures used across contexts?
Margaret Price, "Access Imagined"
How do scholars like Price examine not just the style of written language, but also the way it is situated in the world (like on websites) to draw inferences about the values and norms of publics?
Tom Standage, "And So to the Coffeehouse: How Social Media Promotes Innovation"
Lauren Berlant," The Intimate Public Sphere"
Project 3: Historical Narrative of a Public
Proposal
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How do writers tell stories in which the protagonist isn't a single person, but a public context as a particular way of bringing people together? What other kinds of characters occupy the background of these stories?
Project 2: Rhetorical and Formal Analysis Essay
Draft 1
Group Conferences
Draft 2
How do people in the interdisciplinary field of Writing Studies think and talk about the context of writing?
In what ways is writing constrained by context?