MAE 209 - COMPOSITION THEORY AND PRACTICE

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Description

This course is intended to help students create a framework for generating

their own philosophy of writing. It is intended to help students develop a
deeper understanding of their own writing processes, to recognize the
complexities of literacy and writing, and to become more conscious of the
rhetorical choices writers make in different writing situations.

Topics:

1. Feminist Theory
2. Post-Colonial Theory
3. Bhaktin’s Theory
4. Deconstruction Theory
5. Cognitive Process theory
6. Expressionistic Theory
7. Post Structuralism Theory
8. New Historicism Theory
9. Marxist Theory
10. Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory
11. Jane Eyre Psychoanalytic Theory
12. Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
13. Archetypal/Myth Theory
14. Existentialist Theory
15. Avant-Garde Theory
16. Reception-Reader’s Response Theory
17. Surrealist theory
18. Autobiographical Theory
19. Cognitive Theory of Composition
20. Social Constructivism Theory
21. Radical Expressivist Theory
22. Formalist Theory of Composition
23. Media Theory of Composition

Prepared by: Josephine R. Emoy, Ph.D.