Recently added articles from Composition Studies:
Recopying to Revise: Composition in an Old Key
Oct 01, 2008; ... The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly & logically perceive what it is that you really want to say. - Mark Twain For composition instructors of a certain age, the time-honored story beginning, ...
I Thought Composition Was About Commas and Quotes, Not Queers: Diversity and Campus Change at a Rural Two-Year College
Oct 01, 2008; ... "Freaking queers. " "That's so gay." "What are you, gay?" "Faggots should be nuked." Can you remember the last time you heard such phrases while walking down a hall on campus? While grabbing a refill in the coffee room? While sitting at your desk, student voices ...
Mentoring Peer Mentors: Mentor Education and Support in the Composition Program
Oct 01, 2008; ... If you work in the field of composition and rhetoric, you have very likely participated in a mentoring program, as a teaching assistant (TA), faculty member, or program director. After all, even fifteen years ago, Aliene Cooper and D. G. Kehl found that more than two-thirds of the composition ...
Student Writing in a Talent Development Program: Sanctuary and Academic Site of the "Personally Humane"
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 1995 I attended the CCCC convention in Washington, DC, themed "Literacies, Technologies and Responsibilities." One of the convention events was hosted by Howard University; it was the first time I experienced being a racial majority in an academic setting. At the time, I was an adjunct ...
Returning to the Table: A Conversation with Gary A. Olson
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 1993, Composition Studies published "Turning the Tables: An (Inter)view with Gary A. Olson" by Sid Dobrin, in which Dobrin and Olson discuss, among other things, the disciplinary status of composition and rhetoric. Olson energetically promoted cross-disciplinary scholarship that places ...
English 450: Theories and Methods of Argument
Oct 01, 2008; ... Course Description Theories and Methods of Argument serves as an upper level course in the Writing concentration of our B.A. in English and American Language and Literature (the only other official concentration is Literature) at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (UTC), a ...
Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies
Oct 01, 2008; ... Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies, by Jonathan Alexander. Utah State University Press, 2008. 232 pp. Last spring, I taught a first-year composition and literature course under the theme "Reading and Writing Popular Culture." In our final writing ...
Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition
Oct 01, 2008; ... Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition, by Michelle Baliff, D. Diane Davis, and Roxanne Mountford. New York: Routledge, 2008. 352 pp. Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition should - and no doubt, will - find a large audience of both sexes, for it is filled ...
Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric
Oct 01, 2008; ... Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric, by Paul Butler. Logan: Utah State UC 2008. 194 pp. In Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric, Paul Butler considers the relative absence of style both within the classroom and within the ...
Teaching Multiwriting: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures
Oct 01, 2008; ... Teaching Multiwriting: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures, by Robert L. Davis and Mark R Shadle. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. 256 pp. From service learning and public writing to new media and composition as a ...
Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition
Oct 01, 2008; ... Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition, edited by Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh T> 2007. 260 pp. Reviewed by AlexL· E. Ramsey, Eckerd College Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition seeks to "provide a ...
Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process
Oct 01, 2008; ... Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process, by Helen Foster. West Lafayette: Parlor Press, 2007. 268 pp. Reviewed by Lance Massey, Bowling Green State University You can't throw a rock at a CCCC convention these days without hitting somebody who thinks - ...