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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.
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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.)
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.
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.
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 Texts. Carbondale, 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 Age. Carbondale, 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.]
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.]
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)
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