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Assessment of Writing
Politics, Policies, Practices
Twenty-two essays focus on how policies shape practices in writing assessment and how practices are intertwined with politics.
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Editor(s): Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, Sandra Kamusikiri
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Contending with Words
Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age
Twelve previously unpublished essays relate the teaching of writing to various aspects of postmodern thought, including feminism, neo-Marxist theories, the historiography of Michel Foucault, and cultural criticism.
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Editor(s): Patricia Harkin, John Schilb
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Disciplinary Identities
Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, and Composition
"This is an inventive and illuminating study that recontextualizes the postmodern and recovers striking and salient moments from the history of rhetoric and the histories of the now divided fields...
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Author(s): Steven Mailloux
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Discourse
A Critique and Synthesis of Major Theories
Recommended for all teachers of composition and rhetoric, this volume is the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of recent discourse theory available.
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Author(s): Timothy W. Crusius
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Feminism and Composition Studies
In Other Words
The fifteen essays and six responses in this volume of the MLA's Research and Scholarship in Composition series "push the boundaries of knowledge in both feminism and composition," as the...
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Editor(s): Susan C. Jarratt, Lynn Worsham
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Helping Students Write Well
A Guide for Teachers in All Disciplines, (2nd edition)
Helping Students Write Well has become the standard manual for college instructors seeking to integrate writing into their courses more effectively. The book suggests techniques for responding to student work,...
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Author(s): Barbara E. Fassler Walvoord
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Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction
First-Year English, Humanities Core Courses, Seminars
"As a demonstration of possible ways to incorporate literature into the writing curriculum, the book does its work well. It provides often vivid examples of ways in which thoughtful and...
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Editor(s): Judith H. Anderson, Christine R. Farris
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Into the Field
Sites of Composition Studies
This collection brings together writings by thirteen scholars united in the belief that composition shapes other fields as much as it is shaped by them.
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Editor(s): Anne Ruggles Gere
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Literacy and Computers
The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology
Computers, this collection of essays suggests, are transforming texts, language, and literacy itself. In easy-to-understand language, Literacy and Computers discusses computer-related issues within several larger contexts: the politics, social implications,...
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Editor(s): Cynthia L. Selfe, Susan Hilligoss
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Literary Research Guide
An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies
(Fifth Edition)
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 by Choice and as one of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the...
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Author(s): James L. Harner
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Perspectives on Research and Scholarship in Composition
Now in its fourth printing, this collection of thirteen essays reviews the major scholarship in a variety of fields that are shaping composition studies, including rhetoric, literary theory, cognitive studies,...
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Editor(s): Ben W. McClelland, Timothy R. Donovan
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Reading Sites
Social Difference and Reader Response
Reading Sites explores how social differences condition and shape reader response. Bringing to the fore a key but long-unexplored issue, this volume extends reader-response theory and unites it with more...
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Editor(s): Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Elizabeth A. Flynn
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The Right to Literacy
The authors of the twenty-nine essays in The Right to Literacy discuss what literacy is, what keeps people from attaining it, and how we can help them attain it.
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Editor(s): Andrea A. Lunsford, Helene Moglen, James Slevin
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Technical Writing
Theory and Practice
This collection of essays by teachers and practitioners of technical writing addresses theoretical and practical issues facing instructors who teach advanced and introductory courses as well as those who plan...
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Editor(s): Bertie E. Fearing, W. Keats Sparrow
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What Is English?
What Is English? is Peter Elbow's challenging and very personal "picture of a profession that cannot define what it is."
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Author(s): Peter Elbow
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Writing in Multicultural Settings
The twenty essays and four responses ("cross-talks") in this volume, the fifth in the Research and Scholarship in Composition series, confront the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender,...
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Editor(s): Carol Severino, Juan C. Guerra, Johnnella E. Butler
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Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines
The fourteen essays in this volume chart the history of this interdisciplinary development in both the United States and Great Britain and examine the wide range of forms that writing-in-the-disciplines...
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Editor(s): Anne Herrington, Charles Moran
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