CI 565

Spring 2019

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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as ENGL 582. See ENGL 582.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
32284
Lecture-Discussion
R
1:00PM -2:50PM
W
English Building
Gallagher, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/19-05/01/19
Section Title:
Audience and Reception
Section Info:
This seminar explores how to produce empirically-grounded and theoretically-rich studies of audiences in writing studies. It focuses on the fragmentation of audience theory after the propaganda of WWII and the so-called “hypodermic needle theory” of behaviorism in the early twentieth century. Beginning with Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s “universal audience,” we will focus on the development of audience theory through the term’s various deployments (e.g., involved audiences, discourse community, publics, users, networks, assemblages, machines). In more practical terms, we will examine the reception of writing and rhetoric (e.g., Kjeldsen, Stromer-Galley and Schiappa), focusing on ways to produce procedurally sound surveys and interviews. To put these ideas into practice, we will design both digital and analogue surveys as well as practice interviewing through a series of contexts (i.e., in-person, phone, video chat). Over the course of the semester, we will do several in-class activities that focus on reception studies, including how to structure (“clean”) the data obtained from surveys and transcription techniques. The course culminates in a research design that students could use in their current or future studies.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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