Sirc.+Serial+Composition

=Sirc, Geoffrey. "Serial Composition."= //Rhetorics and Technologies//. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2010. 56-73. Print.

Abstract
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Argument
Geoffrey Sirc explores the reasons why college composition has remained stagnant, while other creative disciplines such as painting, architecture, and music have all changed in significant and progressive ways. Sirc explains that the structure and purpose of college writing has always involved the same concepts, including theses and other “stock strategies” (57). In other words, Sirc investigates why college composition has not changed despite 120 years momentous cultural changes. Furthermore, Sirc highlights minimalism and how this movement can be applied to composition. For example, Sirc compares composition to the mix tape and explains, “What the mix tape offers composition is proof of how minimalist citational logic can achieve maximum ideational effect” (66). Sirc also discusses seriality and how reducing work to its essential elements relates to minimalism and minimalist structure. Sirc argues that college composition and writing should embrace the concept of minimalism within composition, as well as the cultural changes that affect information and the structure of writing.

Key Passages
Sirc describes, “Such, in a nutshell, is the whole of college writing: generation of an essay theme, completion of a topic outline, and stock strategies and techniques for fleshing out the essay, making sure the parts all work together to inflect the whole, helping to produce that properly subordinated, proportioned, and progressive sequence” (57).

Selected Works Cited
Longinus. "On the Sublime." Classical Uterriry Crititistn. Translated by Penelope Murray and T S. Dorsch. London: Penguin, 2000, 113-66.

Paul, James. "Last Night a Mix Tape Saved My Life." Guardian, 26 September 2003. Accessed 23 July 2008, http://www,guardian.co.uklmusicI2003/sepI2612.