Composition and Rhetoric Studies
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
Invisible Forces
Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.
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.
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.
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.
Vernacular Insurrections
Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Constructing Knowledges
Examines the relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge, within the academy in general and composition studies in particular.
Zen in the Art of Rhetoric
Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.
Revisioning Writers' Talk
Stressing the social dimensions of composing, this book inquires into the problems of interpreting and representing writers' talk in both academic and self directed writing groups, arguing for the value ...
Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy
This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward, in order to construct a suggestive conceptual framework for disrupting our conventional ...
Ecotone
Ecotone: Wayfaring on the Margins, a personal history of place, is written from the perspective of a teacher, naturalist, and feminist and uses the metaphor of the biological ecotone as the boundary where ...
Dyke Ideas
Dyke Ideas is a passionate and insightful contribution to lesbian philosophy. The main value is wimmin—women separate from men and men's inventions. "Craziness," guilt, competition, sex, and other topics ...
Linguistics for Writers
This book is designed so that writers, teachers, and students can begin to incorporate the insights of linguistics into their study of communication and writing. It has two main purposes. One is to demystify ...
Markedness
Battistella traces the development of markedness theory as a central part of structuralist theories of language. He outlines the concepts of marked and unmarked from Prague School structuralism to present ...
Teaching Writing
This anthology explores the relationship between feminism and writing theory. The chapters cover the major issues: basic pedagogical theory and philosophical approaches to the teaching of writing, studies ...