This month, join us in creating and improving articles on scholars at various intersections of comparative rhetorical studies (both classical and modern origins) and non-western/global traditions that are reflected in particular languages, cultures, and regions. This spotlight is hosted in collaboration with the Global & Non-Western Rhetorics Standing Group of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
Our main goals are to . . .
1. Set writing goals: Create achievable goals for contributions to a target article or articles.
2. Coordinate collaboration: Form writing groups of WikiProject Writing participants interested in improving the same article or articles.
3. Combat knowledge inequities: Address content gaps by creating new content with attention to the research and scholarship of marginalized writing studies teacher-scholars.
Take action by...
1. Choosing an article: Head to our article worklist to find an article you'd like to work on.
2. Setting a goal: Edit our 'Setting goals' section with your suggested plan for the month.
3. Collaborate on an article: Use our resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and request feedback.
Alongside each biography of an academic, we've suggested a few field-specific articles and general interest, vital articles to incorporate relevant scholarship into. Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.'
Gunde, A. M. (2015). Online News Media, Religious Identity and Their Influence on Gendered Politics: Observations from Malawi’s 2014 Elections, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 4(1), 39-66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000100
Gunde, A.M., Chikaipa, V. (2021). Popular Culture as Alternative Media: Reggae Music, Culture and Politics in Malawi’s Democracy. In: Dunn, H.S., Moyo, D., Lesitaokana, W.O., Barnabas, S.B. (eds) Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54169-9_16
Manthalu, Chikumbutso Herbert, Victor Chikaipa, and Anthony Mavuto Gunde, eds. Education, Communication and Democracy in Africa: A Democratic Pedagogy for the Future. Routledge 2022.
Victor Chikaipa & Anthony Mavuto Gunde (2021) The Role of Community Radio in Promotion of Indigenous Minority Languages and Cultures in Malawi, Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 28:2, 327-343, DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2020.1751633
Hum, Sue, and Arabella Lyon. "Recent advances in comparative rhetoric." The Sage handbook of rhetorical studies (2009): 153-165.
Lyon, Arabella. Deliberative acts. Penn State University Press, 2021.
Lyon, Arabella. "Rhetorical authority in Athenian democracy and the Chinese legalism of Han Fei." Philosophy & rhetoric 41.1 (2008): 51-71.
Lyon, Arabella. "Interdisciplinarity: Giving up territory." College English 54.6 (1992): 681-693.
Lyon, Arabella. "Confucian Silence and Remonstration: A Basis for Deliberation?." Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks (2004): 131-45.
Lyon, Arabella. "" You Fail": Plagiarism, the Ownership of Writing, and Transnational Conflicts." College Composition and Communication 61.2 (2009): W222.
Lyon, Arabella. Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored. Penn State Press, 2004.
Lyon, Arabella. "Writing an empire: Cross-talk on authority, act, and relationships with the Other in the Analects, Daodejing, and HanFeizi." College English 72.4 (2010): 350-366.
Mao, LuMing, Bo Wang, Arabella Lyon, Susan C. Jarratt, C. Jan Swearingen, Susan Romano, Peter Simonson, Steven Mailloux, and Xing Lu. "Manifesting a future for comparative rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 34, no. 3 (2015): 239-274.
Blake, Cecil. The African Origins of Rhetoric, Routledge, 2010.
Blake, Cecil., “Communication Research and African National Development,” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 9, no. 4, June 1979, pp. 218–230. https://doi.org/10.1177/002193477900900405
Blake, Cecil., Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes: With (Eds) Calloway-Thomas, C. & Stewart, P. New York: Allyn and Bacon. 1999
Blake, Cecil, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Communication (Eds) With E. Akpati. Lexington, Mass: Ginn Custom publishing, 1983
Blake, Cecil, Handbook of Intercultural Communication. (Eds) With Molefi Asante and Eileen Newmark. Beverly Hills: Sage Publication, 1979
Blake, Cecil, Public Speaking: A Twenty First Century Perspective: Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt, 1995
Wu, Hui. "From Oratory to Writing: An Overview of Chinese Classical Rhetoric (500 BCE–220 CE)." The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics (2020): 86-95.
Wu, Hui. "Historical studies of rhetorical women here and there: Methodological challenges to dominant interpretive frameworks." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 32.1 (2002): 81-97.
Wu, Hui. "Lost and found in transnation: Modern conceptualization of Chinese rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 28.2 (2009): 148-166.
Wu, Hui. "Lost in translation: the modern Chinese conceptualization of rhetoric." College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009): W87.
Wu, Hui. "Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women's Rhetoric Revisited: A Case for an Enlightened Feminist Rhetorical Theory." College English 72.4 (2010): 406-423.
Wu, Hui. "The alternative feminist discourse of post-Mao Chinese writers: A perspective from the rhetorical situation." Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges (2001): 219-234.
Wu, Hui. "The Old, the New, and the Renewed in Comparative Studies of Chinese Rhetoric: An Introduction." China Media Research 15.1 (2019): 1-3.
Wu, Hui. "Writing and teaching behind barbed wire: An exiled composition class in a Japanese-American internment camp." College Composition and Communication (2007): 237-262.
Wu, Hui. A rhetoric of being: Enthymemes, nationalism, and writing consciousness. Texas Christian University, 1998.
Mao, LuMing. "Beyond bias, binary, and border: Mapping out the future of comparative rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly43.3 (2013): 209-225.
Mao, LuMing Robert. "Beyond politeness theory:‘Face’revisited and renewed." Journal of pragmatics21.5 (1994): 451-486.
Mao, LuMing, Bo Wang, Arabella Lyon, Susan C. Jarratt, C. Jan Swearingen, Susan Romano, Peter Simonson, Steven Mailloux, and Xing Lu. "Manifesting a future for comparative rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 34, no. 3 (2015): 239-274.
Mao, LuMing. "Chinese communication studies: Contexts and comparisons." (2003): 431-434.
Mao, LuMing. "Returning to yin and yang: from terms of opposites to interdependence-in-difference." College composition and communication 60.4 (2009): W45.
Mao, LuMing. "Rhetorical borderlands: Chinese American rhetoric in the making." College Composition and Communication (2005): 426-469.
Mao, LuMing. "Studying the Chinese rhetorical tradition in the present: Re-presenting the native's point of view." College English 69.3 (2007): 216-237.
Mao, LuMing. "Thinking beyond Aristotle: The turn to how in comparative rhetoric." Pmla 129.3 (2014): 448-455.
Mao, LuMing. "Thinking through difference and facts of nonusage: a dialogue between comparative rhetoric and translingualism." Across the disciplines 15.3 (2018): 104-113.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentricity: Toward a New Understanding of African Thought in the World", inAsante, Molefi Kete; Miike, Yoshitaka; Yin, Jing (2008). The Global Intercultural Communication Reader. Routledge. pp. 101–110. ISBN 978-0-415-95812-7.
Molefi Kete Asante, "De-Westernizing Communication: Strategies for Neutralizing Cultural Myths", in Wang, Georgette (2010). De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks. Routledge. pp. 21–7. ISBN 978-1-136-93537-4.
Molefi Kete Asante and Yoshitaka Miike, "Paradigmatic Issues in Intercultural Communication Studies: An Afrocentric-Asiacentric Dialogue," China Media Research, Vol. 9, No. 3, July 2013, p. 4.
Smith, Arthur L. (1971) Markings of an African concept of rhetoric, Today's Speech, 19:2, 13-18, DOI: 10.1080/01463377109368973
Salazar, Philippe-Joseph, et al. "Deliberative Communication in the Electronic Age: A Rhetorical Approach to ICTs in post-apartheid South Africa." NAWA Journal of Language & Communication 1.1 (2007).
Writing center (Writing Center Theory and Variations sections)
Dadugblor, Stephen Kwame. “Collaboration and Conflict in Writing Center Session Notes.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 2021, pp. 74-83.
Dadugblor, Stephen Kwame. “Usable Presents: Hybridity in/for Postcolonial African Rhetorics.” Routledge Handbook on Comparative/World Rhetorics, edited by Keith Lloyd, Routledge, 2020, pp. 250-258.
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The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly events & office hours. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to find space to work on your article alongside your collaborators, these are great spaces to do so:
This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work.
Curious about how different people navigate editing Wikipedia? Drop-in whenever you'd like from 1:00pm -3:00pm ET on Twitch where either the CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence, a CCCC Wikipedia Grad Fellow, or CCCCWI schoalar will live edit Wikipedia on a different topic focus.
This workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation.
If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Mondays and Tuesdays or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).
