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History and Foundations of the Field
David Bartholomae, “Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC”
James Berlin, Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges
Patricia Bizzell, “Composition Studies Saves the World!”
Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White, eds, Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future
Robert J. Connors, Composition-rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy
Sharon Crowley, Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays
Lisa Ede, Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location
Richard Fulkerson, “Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century”
Diana George and John Trimbur, “The ‘Communication Battle,’ or Whatever Happened to the 4th C?”
Thomas Kent, ed, Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing Process Paradigm
Gesa E. Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau, eds, Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook
Janice M. Lauer, Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
Erika Lindeman and Gary Tate. eds, An Introduction to Composition Studies
Susan Miller, Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition
Stephen M. North, The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field
Krista Ratcliffe, “The Current State of Composition Scholar/Teachers: Is Rhetoric Gone or Just Hiding Out?”
Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda, eds, Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues, and Perspectives
David Smit, The End of Composition Studies
Composition Praxis:
James Berlin, “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories”
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusiun, Remediation: Understanding New Media
Kenneth A. Bruffee, “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’”
Marilyn M. Cooper and Michael Holzman, Writing as Social Action
Ellen Cushman, “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change”
Amy J. Devitt, Writing Genres
Peter Elbow, Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
Janet Emig, “Inquiry Paradigms and Writing”
Lester Faigley, Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition
Jenn Fishman, Andrea Lunsford, Beth McGregor, and Mark Otuteye, “Performing Writing, Performing Literacy”
Linda Flower and John R. Hayes, “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing”
Keith Gilyard and Victor E. Taylor, eds, Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studie
Bruce McComiskey, Teaching Composition as a Social Process
Candace Mitchell, Writing and Power: A Critical Introduction to Composition Studies
Donald M. Murray, “Teach Writing as Process Not a Product”
Sondra Perl, “The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers”
Paul Prior and Charles Bazerman, eds, What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analysis of Text and Textual Practice
Raul Sánchez, The Function of Theory in Composition Studies
Patrick Sullivan, Howard B. Tinberg, eds, What Is “College-Level” Writing
Composition Pedagogy:
David Bartholomae, Writing on the Margins: Essays in Composition and Teaching
James Berlin, “Composition and Cultural Studies”
Lee Ann Carroll, Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers
Danielle DeVoss, Ellen Cushman, and, Jeffrey T. Grabill, “Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-media Writing”
Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle, “Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning ‘First-Year Composition’ as ‘Introduction to Writing Studies’”
Diana George, “From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing”
Maxine Hairston, “Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing”
George Hillocks and Lee Shulman, Ways of Thinking, Ways of Teaching
George Hillocks, Teaching Writing As Reflective Practice
Gunther Kress, “Gains and Losses: New Forms of Texts, Knowledge, and Learning”
Cynthia Selfe, Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention
Ira Shor, When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy
Geneva Smitherman, “CCCC and the ‘Students’ Right to Their Own Language”
Mary Soliday, The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education
Nancy Sommers “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers”
Gary Tate, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick, eds, A Guide to Composition Pedagogies
Kathleen Blake Yancey, “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key”
Kathleen Blake Yancey, ed, Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon
Digital Composition Pedagogy and Rhetoric:
John F. Barber and Dene Grigar, eds, New Worlds, New Words: Exploring Pathways for Writing About and in Electronic Environments
Stephen A. Bernhardt “The Shape of Text to Come: The Texture of Print on Screens”
Elizabeth Clark, “The Digital Imperative: Making the Case for a 21st Century Pedagogy”
Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe, ed, Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies
Johndan Johnson-Eilola, “Control and the Cyborg: Writing and Being Written in Hypertext”
Gunther Kress, Literacy in the New Media Age
George P. Landow, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization
Richard A. Lanham, The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
Tim Lindgren and Derek Owens, “From Site to Screen, From Screen to Site: Merging Place-based Pedagogy with Web-based Technology”
Elizabeth M. Losh, “Hacking Aristotle: What is Digital Rhetoric?”
James E. Porter, “Rhetoric in (as) a Digital Economy”
Alexander Reid, The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition
Jim Ridolfo and Danielle DeVoss, “Composing for Recomposition: Rhetorical Velocity and Delivery”
Sirc, Geoffrey, “Serial Composition”
Heather Urbanski, ed, Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric
Barbara Warnick and David S. Heineman, Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media
WIDE Research Center Collective, “Why teach digital writing?”
Anne Frances Wysocki, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc, Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
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