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 ...