An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.

Extends the borders of essay scholarship by reading Latin American and Latino/a essayists alongside European and American ones.

Examines the relationships between language and nature.

Explores theoretical and pedagogical approaches to "resistance," showing how this concept plays out in the college writing classroom.

A rich array of interesting ways to teach personal writing critically and in settings where it has typically been excluded.

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.

Argues that the academy's obsession with language, and in particular with narrative, has become a sort of disease.

A cultural materialist critique of six key terms used in composition studies to define its work.

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.

A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.

Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.

Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property.

Proposes feminist research principles to assist in making informed decisions to address ethical dilemmas that arise in research and teaching.

A cultural history of the origins of composition studies that sheds new light on contemporary debates regarding the role of rhetoric in student transformation.

Presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers--their intertwined lives as professionals, feminists, writers, instructors, and colleagues.

Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies.

Examines the relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge, within the academy in general and composition studies in particular.

The first study to examine the conditions that led to the production of theories like "structuralism" and "poststructuralism. "

Addresses questions of phrase structure and theoretical architecture within a principles and parameters framework.

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 ...

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.

The author uses linguistic, ethnographic, and historical evidence to support his theory that the origins of Sephardic Jews are predominantly Berber and Arab.

Examines the teacher’s role and the teacher’s authority in postmodern academic settings.

Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.

Develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more parties attempt to advance their own interests. It includes a classification of the major types of dialogues and a discussion of several important informal fallacies.