Language Arts
The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing
Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication
Amplifying Voices in UX
Designers can create stronger products by considering multiple users with varied perspectives and thus create balance, termed equilibriUX, in their designs.
Invisible Forces
Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.
Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication
This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.
Welding Technical Communication
Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.
Post-Chineseness
Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.
Translating Buddhism
Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.
Joan Didion
Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.
Bordered Writers
Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.
Dao and Sign in History
Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.
The Room Is on Fire
Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events.
On Self-Translation
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
Reflecting Pool
Both an anthology and an informal textbook that features poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets.
Getting Personal
Addresses how digital forms of personal writing can be most effectively used by teachers, students, and other community members.
Peaceful Persuasion
Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.
Green Voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.
Papers of the Forty-Fourth Algonquian Conference
Papers of the forty-fourth Algonquian Conference held at the University of Chicago October 2012.
Creating Nonfiction
A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.
The Lure of Literacy
Examines proposals for freshman composition’s abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses.
The Other Side of Pedagogy
Delineates Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are, developmentally, and where they might go.
Letters to a Best Friend
A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.
Papers of the Forty-Third Algonquian Conference
Papers of the forty-third Algonquian Conference held at University of Michigan in October 2011.
Borges, Second Edition
Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.
Chinese through Song, Second Edition
An innovative approach to teaching Chinese language and culture, using folk and popular songs.
Papers of the Forty-Second Algonquian Conference
Papers of the forty-second Algonquian Conference held at Memorial University of Newfoundland in October 2010.
Vernacular Insurrections
Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.
Figuring Religions
Offers new ways of comparing features of the world’s religions.
Papers of the Forty-First Algonquian Conference
Papers of the forty-first Algonquian Conference held at Concordia University in October 2009.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court
How oral arguments influence the decisions of Supreme Court justices.
Coach
Twenty-five celebrated writers share the encouraging words and timeless wisdom of the coaches who influenced their lives.
Active Voices
Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
Hocąk Teaching Materials, Volume 2
Second volume of instructional materials for learning the original Hochunk language, featuring entire texts and a CD.
Hocak Teaching Materials, Volume 1
Comprehensive bilingual dictionary of the Hochunk language.
Sound-Bite Saboteurs
Argues that the reliance on sound bites in recent political discourse is harmful to the democratic process.
Making Poems
Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.
Composition and Copyright
Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.
Measured Meals
Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.
The Wound and the Witness
Explores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts.
Between Speaking and Silence
Explores the question of student silence from students’ perspectives and challenges the conventional wisdom about silent students.
The Passionate Empiricist
Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.
Non-discursive Rhetoric
Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.
Writing-Based Teaching
Offers candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges.
Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language
Aims to transform logic into a reflection on the nature of language.
City of Rhetoric
Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.
Ecosee
Examines the rhetorical role of images in communicating environmental ideas.
Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies
Case study of the life of a feminist organization in a changing political and funding climate.
Death in the Classroom
Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.
The Way Literacy Lives
Challenges an autonomous model of literacy instruction in favor of one that recognizes and builds on students’ facility in navigating other rhetorical contexts.
How the Gene Got Its Groove
Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.
Alterity and Narrative
Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.
Participation and Power
Takes a firsthand look at a case of public participation in environmental policy.
Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students
Engages the complexities of teaching Latino/a students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Critical Power Tools
The first sourcebook for rethinking technical communication theory, practice, pedagogy, and research through a cultural studies lens.
Sins against Science
Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientific and technological discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their trust in science.
Plagiarism
An in-depth look at the history of plagiarism in light of today’s Web-based plagiarism detection services.
Dying to Teach
Affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief.
Defying the Odds
Examines why some working-class students pursue higher literacy while others don’t.
The Function of Theory in Composition Studies
Offers an extended critique of key assumptions in composition theory and a new paradigm for thinking about writing in an increasingly globalized and textualized world.
Postmodern Sophistry
An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish.
The Dao of Rhetoric
Examines the ways Daoist (Taoist) thought may contribute to an understanding of human communication.
Trauma and the Teaching of Writing
Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.
The Active Life
A sustained reflection on philosopher John William Miller and the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of democracy.
Women and Children First
A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.
Calling Cards
Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.
Writing Environments
Including interviews with several of America's leading environmental writers, this volume addresses the intersections between writing and nature.
The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition
Interrogates the story of rhetoric promoted in standard historical accounts and reconsiders the relationship between rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy.
Radical Relevance
Exemplifies the struggles of scholars to work toward a more shared agenda for social change.
Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency
Links radical feminist writings of the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary online women's networks.
The Rebirth of Dialogue
Offers a fundamental rethinking of the rhetorical tradition as dialogue.
Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks
Examines rhetorical practices in cultures and time periods that have received little attention to date.
Being Made Strange
Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.
Virtual Peer Review
Offers a thorough look at peer review in virtual environments.
Ethnography Unbound
Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.
The Language of Battered Women
Shows how battered women's personal theologies help them survive and heal, despite the women's knowledge that religion may also have contributed to their oppression.
The Realms of Rhetoric
Argues for a more theoretically-informed and cogent curricular space for rhetoric in the academy.
Metaphor and Knowledge
Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts.
Writing Power
Adds to our understanding of the powerful nature of texts and writing.
City Comp
An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.
Borges
Lisa Block de Behar explores the trope of quotation in the works of Jorge Luis Borges.
Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay
Extends the borders of essay scholarship by reading Latin American and Latino/a essayists alongside European and American ones.
Natural Discourse
Examines the relationships between language and nature.
Insurrections
Explores theoretical and pedagogical approaches to "resistance," showing how this concept plays out in the college writing classroom.
Relocating the Personal
A rich array of interesting ways to teach personal writing critically and in settings where it has typically been excluded.
Who Translates?
Argues for a postrationalist conception of translation based not on the translator's rational control of words and meanings but on a flowing through the translator of voices and textualities.
End of Story
Argues that the academy's obsession with language, and in particular with narrative, has become a sort of disease.
Terms of Work for Composition
A cultural materialist critique of six key terms used in composition studies to define its work.
Narralogues
These "narralogues" combine story and argument, moving from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, and ultimately making the case that fiction is a medium for telling the truth.
Advances in African Linguistics
A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
Acts of Arguing
Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.
Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World
Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property.
Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research
Proposes feminist research principles to assist in making informed decisions to address ethical dilemmas that arise in research and teaching.
The Resistant Writer
A cultural history of the origins of composition studies that sheds new light on contemporary debates regarding the role of rhetoric in student transformation.
Women/Writing/Teaching
Presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers--their intertwined lives as professionals, feminists, writers, instructors, and colleagues.
Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition
Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies.
Constructing Knowledges
Examines the relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge, within the academy in general and composition studies in particular.
French Intellectual Nobility
The first study to examine the conditions that led to the production of theories like "structuralism" and "poststructuralism. "
A Theory of Phrase Markers and the Extended Base
Addresses questions of phrase structure and theoretical architecture within a principles and parameters framework.
Translating by Factors
By emphasizing, using English-German examples, the notion of factor set, this book fosters the awareness that successful and adequate translation requires properly accounting for the pertinent translation ...
Prepositions and Complement Clauses
Provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in present-day English.