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Course Readings

Teaching Composition (English 402, Section 2, Fall 2008)

Instructor: Bob Broad, Professor of English

Students in this course must read the assigned readings. Further readings will be chosen according to their value for the particular individual and/or collaborative research projects we develop.


Required books:

[Please note: if you join NCTE first, you will, in addition to other benefits, receive a substantial discount on the price of books purchased directly from NCTE (www.ncte.org).] 

Course packet and/or individual readings assigned by the professor (TBA). 

Villanueva, Victor, ed.  Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2003. (ISBN 0-8141-0976-4)

Roen, Duane, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, Eric Waggoner, eds.  Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2002. (ISBN 0-8141-4749-6.) 

Writing Program at Illinois State University.  Course Guide for English 101, Composition as Critical Inquiry.  Normal, IL: 2008.  (Instructor's desk copy provided to you at no charge by the ISU Writing Program.)

Writing Program at Illinois State University.  Instructor’s Manual for English 101: Composition as Critical Inquiry.  Normal, IL: 2008.  (Instructor's desk copy provided to you at no charge by the ISU Writing Program.) 

Other possibly-to-be-required readings (these will be made available to you electronically or in paper copy):

Ball, Cheryl.  IX: Visual Exercises.  Boston, MA: Bedford, 2005. 

Broad, Bob.  “More Work for Teacher: Possible Futures of Teaching Writing in the Age of Computerized Assessment.”  The Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences.  Eds. Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard H. Haswell.  Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2006.  221-233. 

DeJoy, Nancy.  "I Was a Process-Model Baby."  Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing Process Paradigm.  Ed. Thomas Kent.  Carbondale: SIU Press, 1999.  163-178. 

Jung, Julie. "Writing that Listens: Defining Revisionary Rhetoric."  Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts.  Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 2005.  1-28. 

Kent, Thomas.  "Introduction."  Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing Process Paradigm.  Ed. Thomas Kent.  Carbondale: SIU Press, 1999.  1-6. 

Olson, Gary.  "Toward a Post-Process Composition: Abandoning the Rhetoric of Assertion."  Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.  7-15

Pratt, Mary Louise.  "Arts of the Contact Zone."  Profession 91.  New York: MLA, 1991.  33-40. 

Robillard, Amy E.  "We Won't Get Fooled Again: On the Absence of Angry Responses to Plagiarism in Composition Studies."  College English 70.1 (September 2007).  10-31. 

Sommers, Nancy.  "Responding to Student Writing."  CCC 33.2 (May, 1982):  148-156.

Trimbur, John.  "Taking the Social Turn: Teaching Writing Post-Process."  CCC 45.1 (Feb. 1994): 108-118.  [Book review.]

Yancey, Kathleen Blake.  "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key."  CCC 56.2 (December 2004): 297-328. 


Recommended books (a suggestive sampling of recent books):

Broad, Bob.  What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing.  Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2003. 

Elbow, Peter.  Writing without Teachers.  2nd ed.  New York: Oxford UP, 1998.  (Or you can read the first edition, published in 1973.)  [Reviewed 10/9/07 by Luis Fernando Gomez-Rodriguez.]

Ericsson, Patricia Freitag, and Richard H.  Haswell, eds. Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2006.

Hawk, Byron. A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity.  Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007.

Huot, Brian. (Re) Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002.

Jung, Julie.  Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre TextsCarbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2005.  [Reviewed 10/2/07 by Rebecca Anderson.] 

Kirsch, Gesa E., et al.  Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.  [Reviewed 10/16/07 by Filiz Barin Akman.]

McLeod, Susan H., et al.  WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs.  Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 2001. 

Crowley, Sharon. Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 2006.

Reynolds, Nedra, Patricia Bizzell, and Bruce Herzberg.  The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing.  6th ed.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.  (ISBN: 978-0-312-40501-4) 
(available online at:  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/contents.html)

Selber, Stuart A.  Multiliteracies for a Digital AgeCarbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2004. 

Sidler, Michelle, Richard Morris, and Elizabeth Overman Smith.  Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 

Winter, Dave, and Sarah Robbins.  Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture.  National Writing Project, 2005.  [Reviewed 9/4/07 by Garrett W. Nichols.]

Young, Morris.  Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship.  Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.  [Reviewed 10/23/07 by Kari Husby.] 

Other books reviewed:

Benson, Chris, and Scott Christian.  Writing to Make a Difference: Classroom Projects for Community Change.  New York: Teachers College P, 2002.  [Reviewed 10/9/07 by Meg Sparling.] 

Bizzell, Patricia, Bruce Herzberg, and Nedra Reynolds.  Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/  [Reviewed 8/28/07 by the whole class.]

Crowley, Sharon.  Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism.  Pittsburgh, PA : U of Pittsburgh P, 2006.  [Reviewed 9/11/07 by Amy Riddle.] 

Elbow, Peter, and Pat Belanoff.  A Community of Writers: a Workshop Course in Writing.  3rd ed.  Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000.  [Reviewed 9/11/07 by  Jane Carman.]

Faigley, Lester.  Fragments of Rationality: postmodernity and the subject of composition.  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1992.  [Reviewed 10/30/07 by Neal Klomp]

Pagnucci, Gian S.  Living the Narrative Life: Stories as a Tool for Meaning Making.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2004.  [Reviewed 9/4/07 by Billie Jarvis-Freeman.]

Sohn, Katherine Kelleher. Whistlin' and Crowin' Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 2006.  [Reviewed 10/2/07 by Courtney McKinney-Whitaker.]

Williams, James D., ed.  Visions and Revisions: Continuity and Change in Rhetoric and Composition.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.  [Reviewed 9/18/07 by Beyazit H. Akman.]

 


Recommended Journals in Rhetoric and Composition

Assessing Writing (ASW)

College Composition and Communication (CCC) in print and online at: http://inventio.us/ccc/

College English (CE)

Computers and Composition (C&C) 

Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC) 

Journal of Basic Writing (JBW)

Journal of Teaching Writing (JTW)

Journal of Writing Assessment (JWA)

Kairos (online only: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/)

Rhetoric Review (RR)

Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC) 

 


Online Resources (in addition to those already noted above)

Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/

CompPile: http://comppile.tamucc.edu/

CompFAQ: http://comppile.tamucc.edu/wiki/CompFAQs/Home

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): http://www.ncte.org/cccc/

Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA):  http://wpacouncil.org/frontpage


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