| (Re)Writing Craft | Tim Mayers | Tim Mayers explores the nature of the contemporary English department with the intent of drawing connections between the usually separate fields of creative writing and composition studies. |
| (Re)Writing Craft | Tim Mayers | Tim Mayers explores the nature of the contemporary English department with the intent of drawing connections between the usually separate fields of creative writing and composition studies. |
| “I Sing for I Cannot Be Silent” | June Hadden Hobbs | Evangelical hymns constituted a cherished part of communal Christian life and served as an important and effective way to teach doctrine. These hymns served an additional social purpose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: they gave evangelical women a voice in their churches. By comparing male and female hymnists' use of rhetorical forms, June Hadden Hobbs shows how women utilized the only oral communication allowed to them in public worship. |
| Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness | Patricia Bizzell | Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness traces the attempts of one writing teacher to understand theoretically - and to respond pedagogically - to what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college. Critical of even her own previous work, Patricia Bizzell presents a picture of how she has grappled with major issues in composition studies over the past decade and offers suggestions for the development of composition studies as an academic discipline. |
| Acts of Enjoyment | Thomas Rickert | A critique of current pedagogies that introduces a psychoanalytical approach in teaching composition and rhetoric. Thomas Rickert builds upon the advances of cultural studies and its focus on societal trends and broadens this view by placing attention on the conscious and subconscious thought of the individual. |
| Acts of Enjoyment | Thomas Rickert | A critique of current pedagogies that introduces a psychoanalytical approach in teaching composition and rhetoric. Thomas Rickert builds upon the advances of cultural studies and its focus on societal trends and broadens this view by placing attention on the conscious and subconscious thought of the individual. |
| American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance | Ernest Stromberg | The book examines the complex and sophisticated efforts of American Indian writers and orators to constructively engage an often hostile and resistant white audience through language and other symbol systems. |
| American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance | Ernest Stromberg | The book examines the complex and sophisticated efforts of American Indian writers and orators to constructively engage an often hostile and resistant white audience through language and other symbol systems. |
| Assuming the Positions | Susan Miller | In this study, writing often considered trivial in its day is employed it to reinforce or revise the roles imposed on writers by gender and social conventions. Using diaries, letters, commonplace books, travel notes, recipes, remedies and other prose scraps written between 1650 and 1880 and collected by the Virginia Historical Society, Miller documents the social positions and linguistic conventions available to their writers, and also shows the telling moments at which they step outside these positions.
Winner of the 1999 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric and composition |
| Available Means | Joy Ritchie | Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians—from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century—a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald carry on the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women’s rhetoric. |
| Between Languages and Cultures | Anuradha Dingwaney | The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation. |
| Buying into English | Catherine Prendergast | English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. Many developing countries (and, notably, many former Soviet bloc countries) have little choice but to “buy into English” as a path to ideological and material betterment. As Catherine Prendergast reveals, however, investing in English has not always been easy and has often disappointed expectations.
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| Buying into English | Catherine Prendergast | English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. Many developing countries (and, notably, many former Soviet bloc countries) have little choice but to “buy into English” as a path to ideological and material betterment. As Catherine Prendergast reveals, however, investing in English has not always been easy and has often disappointed expectations.
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| Composition in the University | Sharon Crowley | Composition in the University examines the required introductory course in composition within American colleges and universities. Crowley argues that due to its association with literary studies in English departments, composition instruction has been inappropriately influenced by humanist pedagogy and that modern humanism is not a satisfactory rationale for the study of writing. Crowley envisions possible nonhumanist rationales that could be developed for vertical curricula in writing instruction, were the universal requirement not in place.
Winner of the 1999 CCCC Outstanding Book Award |
| Composition-Rhetoric | Robert Connors | Connors provides a comprehensive history of composition and its pedagogical approaches to form, genre, and correctness. He shows where many of the today’s practices and assumptions about writing come from, and he translates what our techniques and theories of teaching have said over time about our attitudes toward students, language, and life. |
| Counter-History of Composition | Byron Hawk | Contests the assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition. Vitalism has been historically linked to expressivism and dismissed as innate and unteachable, whereas rhetoric is seen as a rational, teachable method for producing argumentative texts. Hawk calls for the reexamination of current pedagogies to incorporate vitalism and complexity theory and argues for their application in the environments where students write and think today.
Winner of the 2008 W. Ross Winterowd Award from JAC |
| Crossing Borderlands | Andrea Lunsford | Crossing Borderlands contains essays examining the intersection between composition and postcolonial studies, two fields that seek to provide power to the words and actions of those who have been marginalized or oppressed. |
| Crossing Borderlands | Andrea Lunsford | Crossing Borderlands contains essays examining the intersection between composition and postcolonial studies, two fields that seek to provide power to the words and actions of those who have been marginalized or oppressed. |
| Eating on the Street | David Schaafsma | Inspired by an incident during a field trip in 1989, David Schaafsma has written a powerful and compelling book about the struggle of teaching literacy in a racially divided society and the importance of stories and storytelling in the educational process. |
| Emperor’s New Clothes | Kathryn Flannery | Flannery offers a demystifying perspective on theorists who have argued for an essential distinction between “content” and “style,” and focuses on the importance of understanding written prose style as a cultural asset. |
| Formation of College English | Thomas Miller | Co-Winner of the 1998 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric and composition, The Formation of College English reexamines the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped and continue to shape college English. |
| Formation of College English | Thomas Miller | Co-Winner of the 1998 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric and composition, The Formation of College English reexamines the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped and continue to shape college English. |
| Fragments of Rationality | Lester Faigley | In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, Fragments of Rationality questions why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines. |
| Geopolitics of Academic Writing | A. Suresh Canagarajah | Offers a critique of current scholarly publishing practices, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized.
Winner, first annual Gary A. Olson Award from JAC and ATAC.
Winner of the 2002 Gary A. Olson Award from the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition. |
| Introducing English | James Slevin | James Slevin traces how composition emerged for him not as a vehicle for improving student writing, but rather as a way of working collaboratively with students to interpret educational practices and work for educational reform. |
| Labyrinths of Literacy | Harvey Graff | A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Literacy offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today. |
| Language of Experience | Gwen Gorzelsky | Relying on Gestalt theory, this work describes the relationship between literacy and change in both personal and social situations. It presents historical and contemporary case studies, emphasizing the ways language interacts with perception. |
| Learning from Language | Walter Beale | This book seeks to bring together the disciplines of linguistics, rhetoric, and literary studies through the concept of symmetry (how words mirror thought, society, and our vision of the world). |
| Life and Legacy of Fred Newton Scott | Donald Stewart | The first biography of Fred Newton Scott, one of the most influential figures in language studies during the early twentieth century. |
| Local Histories | Patricia Donahue | An original and significant study of the developmental diversity within the discipline of composition that opens the door to further examination of local histories as guideposts to the origins of composition studies. |
| Local Knowledges, Local Practices | Jonathan Monroe | Containing essays by professors in a wide variety of disciplines, this book provides an overview of Cornell University’s rich history and distinguished achievements in training students to write well. |
| Managing Literacy, Mothering America | Sarah Robbins | Sarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters—the domestic literacy narrative—and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century.
Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006). |
| Motives for Metaphor | James Seitz | Since metaphor, by its very definition, brings two different entities together, James Seitz argues that it is the key to successfully integrating the seemingly different disciplines that make up English studies. |
| Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925 | John Brereton | This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott. |
| Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925 | John Brereton | This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott. |
| Pedagogy | Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori | Mariolina Salvatori presents an anthology of documents that examine the evolution of American education in the nineteenth century and meaning of the word pedagogy. |
| Politics of Remediation | Mary Soliday | Mary Soliday reveals that institutions’ needs for remedial writing programs may outweigh students’ needs for those same programs. Uses CCNY’s open admissions policy as an in-depth case study, she questions the belief that language use is key to access to higher education.
Winner of the CCCC 2003 Outstanding Book Award (NCTE). |
| Practicing Writing | Thomas Masters | Thomas Masters examines a pivotal era—the years following arrival of former soldiers on college campuses thanks to the GI Bill—in the history of the most ubiquitous and most problematic course offered in America: freshman English. |
| PRE/TEXT | Victor Vitanza | This book presents articles reprinted from the first ten years of the controversial journal PRE/TEXT, which probes many of the issues instructors in the field of rhetoric and composition face. |
| Reading in Tudor England | Eugene Kintgen | In this volume Kintgen explains the differences between the way contemporary readers and those of the sixteenth century interpreted texts. He draws fascinating and convincing conclusions about the practice of reading, and successfully relates his arguements to the fields of literary studies and cognitive science. |
| Reclaiming Rhetorica | Andrea Lunsford | Andrea Lunsford examines how women from the period of ancient Greece all the way through to modern times have appropriated traditional forms of rhetoric and used them in women’s discourse. |
| Rhetoric of Remediation | Jane Stanley | American universities have long professed dismay at the writing proficiency of entrants. Jane Stanley examines the “rhetoric of remediation” at the University of California, Berkeley, and reveals the definition of a high need for remediation as a tool by which Cal encouraged or discouraged enrollments in direct correlation to social, economic and political currents throughout the University's history. |
| Rhetorica in Motion | Eileen Schell | Rhetorica in Motion is the first collected work to investigate feminist rhetorical research methods in both contemporary and historical contexts. The contributors analyze familiar themes, such as archival, literary, and online research, but also looks to other areas of rhetoric, such as disability studies; gerontology/aging studies; Latina/o, queer, and transgender studies; performance studies; and transnational feminisms in both the United States and larger geopolitical spaces.
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| Toward a Civil Discourse | Sharon Crowley | Looks at ways to encourage American public discussion of issues that matter to democracy, particularly hoping to find arguments that can reach across the divide between liberalism and Christian fundamentalism in the discussion of civic issues.
Winner of the 2008 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award, the 2008 CCCC Outstanding Book Award, and the 2007 NCTE David Russell Award.
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| Toward a Feminist Rhetoric | JoAnn Campbell | JoAnn Campbell has created the first collection of the major work of innovative thinker and educator Gertrude Buck. Examples of her writings on rhetorical theory, argumentative and expository composition, and other works demonstrate, along with Campbell’s informative introduction, the importance of Buck’s achievements in the male-dominated world of rhetorical composition. |
| Toward a Feminist Rhetoric | JoAnn Campbell | JoAnn Campbell has created the first collection of the major work of innovative thinker and educator Gertrude Buck. Examples of her writings on rhetorical theory, argumentative and expository composition, and other works demonstrate, along with Campbell’s informative introduction, the importance of Buck’s achievements in the male-dominated world of rhetorical composition. |
| Traces of a Stream | Jacqueline Jones Royster | Traces of a Stream offers a unique scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers. Focusing on elite nineteenth-century African American women who formed a new class of women well positioned to use language with consequence, Royster uses interdisciplinary perspectives (literature, history, feminist studies, African American studies, psychology, art, sociology, economics) to present a well-textured rhetorical analysis of the literate practices of these women.
Winner of the 2001 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association. |
| Who Says? | William DeGenaro | Scholars of rhetoric, composition, and communications analyze how discourse is used to construct working-class identities. The essays connect working-class identity to issues of race, gender, and sexuality, among others. |
| Wit’s End | Sean Zwagerman | Wit's End is an original perspective on women's use of humor as a performative strategy, seen in works of twentieth-century American literature. Zwagerman argues that women, whose direct, explicit performative speech has been traditionally denied, or not taken seriously, have often turned to humor as a means of communicating with men. |
| Writing at the End of the World | Richard Miller | Richard E. Miller questions the current views of the relationship between the humanities and daily life, and proposes that, in the face of increasing violence, the humanities should become more important, not less.
Winner of the 2006 James H. Britton Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). |
| Writing/Teaching | Paul Kameen | In Writing/Teaching Paul Kameen brings together essays examining the process of teaching and ones that look at the figures of teacher and student in contemporary education using the writings of Plato and Socrates.
Winner of the 2001 CCCC Outstanding Book Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. |
