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COMPOSITION STUDIES

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2008:

  • Writing Beyond Borders: Writing Studies across Disciplinary and National Borders, Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (CATTW), University of British Columbia, June 1-3

  • Writing Research Across Borders, 3rd International Conference on Writing Research, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 22-24

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2005:

  • Writing Research in the Making,  Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara,

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2002:

  • Writing as a Human Activity, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara,

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Book Series:

  • Boynton/Cook: Cross Currents (Plymouth): New Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition
  • Parlor: Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
  • Peter Lang: Studies in Composition and Rhetoric

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Miller, Suan, ed.  Norton Book of Composition Studies.  New York: Norton, 2009.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Bizzell, Patricia.  "Foundationalism and Anitfoundationalism in Composition Studies."  Pre/Text 7 (1986): 37-56.

    • Bizzell, Patricia.  "Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing."  Pre/Text 3 (1982): 213-43.

    • Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. 

    • Clark, Gregory.  Dialogue, Dialectic, and Conversation: a Social Perspective on the Function of Writing.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

    • Connors, Robert J.  Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy.  Philadelphia: U of Pittsburgh P, 1997.

    • Covino, William A.  Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy: an Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.

    • Covino, William A.  Forms of Wondering: a Dialogue on Writing, for Writers.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 1990.

    • Crowley, Sharon.  Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays.  Philadelphia: U of Pittsburgh P, 1998.

    • Faigley, Lester.  Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition.  Philadelphia: U of Pittsburgh P, 1993.

    • Fishman, Stephen M., and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy.  "Is Expressivism Dead?  Reconsidering its Romantic Roots and its Relation to Social Constructionism."  College English 54.6 (1992): 647-661.

    • Flower, Linda.  "Cognition, Context, and Theory Building."  College Composition, and Communication 40 (1989): 282-311.

    • Hawk, Byron.  A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity.  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007.
    • Knoblauch, C. H., and Lil Brannon.  Critical Teaching and the Idea of Literacy.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton / Cook, 1993.
    • Knoblauch, C. H., and Lil Brannon.  Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton / Cook, 1984.
    • Lauer, Janice M.  Invention in Rhetoric and Composition.  West Lafayette, IND: Parlor Press, 2004.

    • Miller, Susan.  Textual Carnivals: the Politics of Composition.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

    • Miller, Susan.  Rescuing the Subject: a Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1989.

    • North, Stephen.  The Making of Knowledge in Composition Studies.  Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton / Cook, 1987.

    • Phelps, Louise Wetherbee.  Composition as a Human Science.  Oxford: OUP, 1988.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Bazerman, C., and J. Paradis, eds.  Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities. 

    • Bloom, Lynn Z., Donald A. Dailer, and Edward M. White, eds.  Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003.

    • Murphy, James J., ed.  A Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Twentieth-Century America.  Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1990.

    • Olson, Gary A., ed.  Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.

    • Olson, Gary A., and Sidney I. Dobrin, eds.  Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Connors, Robert.  "Rhetorical History as a Component of Composition Studies."  Rhetoric Review 7 (1989): 230-40.

    • Connors, Robert.  "Historical Inquiry in Composition Studies."  The Writing Instructor 4 (1984): 157-67.

    • Connors, Robert.  "Writing the History of Our Discipline."  An Introduction to Composition Studies.  Ed. Erika Lindemann and Gary Tate.  Oxford: OUP, .  49-71.

    • Johnson, Barbara.  "Writing."  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.  39-49.

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