Composition Reading List

Patricia Ericsson

Bartholomae, David. "Inventing the University" From Cross-Talk in Comp Theory. Ed.

Victor Villaneuva, Jr. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 1997. 134-165 (originally published in 1985).

Berlin, James A. Rhetorics, Poetics and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies.

Urbana, IL: NCTE. 1996.

---. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985.

Carbondale,IL: SIU Press. 1987.

---. "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories." From Cross-Talk in

Comp Theory. ed. Victor Villaneuva, Jr. Urban, IL: NCTE. 1997. 33-248 (originally published in 1982).

Bizzell, Patricia. Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness. Pittsburgh, PA:

Pittsburgh UP. 1992.

Bleich, David. Know and Tell: A Writing Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre and

Membership. Portsmouth, NH: Boyton.Cook. 1998.

Brodkey, Linda. Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only. Minneapolis, MN:

University of MN Press. 1996.

Brooke, Robert. "Underlife and Writing Instruction" From On Writing Research: The

Braddock Essays. ed. Lisa Ede. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. 1999. 229-241 (originally published in 1987).

Bulloch, R., John Trimbur, and Charles Schuster. eds. Politics of Writing Instruction:

Postsecondary. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. 1991.

Berthoff, Anne. The Making of Meaning : Metaphors, Models and Maxims for Writing

Teachers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. 1981.

Cooper, Marilyn, and Michael Holzman. eds. Writing as Social Action. Portsmouth, NJ:

Boynton/Cook. 1989.

Cooper, Marilyn. "Postmodern Possibilities in Electronic Conversations." From

Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. ed. Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher. Logan, Utah: Utah State UP. 1999. 140-160.

Connors, Robert. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, Pedagogy. Pittsburgh: U.

of Pittsburgh Press: 1997.

Crowley, Sharon. Composition in the University. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh

Press. 1998.

Elbow, Peter. Writing With Power. 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford UP. 1998.

Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of

Composition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1993.

Faigley, Lester. Three Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal." College English.

48.6 (Oct. 1986): 527-542.

Flower, Linda. "Cognition, Context, and Theory Building." " From Cross-Talk in Comp

Theory. ed. Victor Villaneuva, Jr. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 1997. 701-733 (originally published in 1987).

Flower, Linda and John R. Hayes "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing" From Cross-

Talk in Comp Theory. ed. Victor Villaneuva, Jr. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997. 134-165 (originally published in 1981).

Fox,Tom, Defending Access. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. 1999.

Harkin, Patricia, and John Schilb. eds. Contending with Word: Composition and Rhetoric in a

Postmodern Age. New York: MLA. 1991.

Harris, Joe. "The Idea of Community in the Study of Writing" From On Writing

Research: The Braddock Essays. ed. Lisa Ede. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. 260-271 (originally published in 1989).

Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966. Upper Saddle River, NJ:

Prentice-Hall. 1997.

Horner, Bruce. Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique.. Albany, NY:

SUNY Press. 2000.

Maher, Jane. Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 1997.

Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale, IL: SIU

Press. 1991.

Mortenson, Peter and Gesa Kirsch "On Authority in the Study of Writing" From On

Writing Research: The Braddock Essays. ed. Lisa Ede. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. 331-335 (originally published in 1993).

Nystrand, Martin, Stuart Greene, and Jeffrey Wiemelt. "Where Did Composition Studies

Come From?" Written Communication. 10.3 (July 1993): 267-333.

Rose, Mike. "The Language of Exclusion," From Cross-Talk in Comp Theory. ed. Victor

Villaneuva, Jr. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 1997. 525-547 (originally published in 1985).

Varnum, Robyn. Fencing with Words: A History of Writing Instruction at Amherst

College During the Era of Theodore Baird, 1938-1966. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 1996.

Welch, Nancy. Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction.

Portsmouth, NH: Boyton/Cook. 1997.

 

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