Common Readings
White, Ed. My Five Paragraph-Theme Theme
Historical Composition Approaches and Debates
Berlin, James: Poststructuralism, Cultural Studies, and the Composition Classroom (1992)
Berlin, James: Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class (1988)
Berlin, James: Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories (1982)
Berthoff, Ann: Is Teaching Still Possible?
Hairston, Maxine: The Winds of Change
Freire, Paolo: The Banking Concept of Education
Murray, Donald: Teach Writing as a Process, Not a Product
Metacognition and Reflection
Giles, Sandra: Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?
Lindenman, Heather, et. al.: Revision and Reflection: A Study of (Dis)Connections between Writing Knowledge and Writing Practice
Revision
Anne Curzan: “The Politics of Standard English”
Murray, Donald: “Internal Revision”
Lamott, Anne: Shitty First Drafts
Sommers, Nancy: Between the Drafts
Research on Genre and Transfer
Bergmann, Linda and Janet Zepernick. Disciplinarity and Transfer: Students’ Perceptions of Learning to Write.
Clark, Irene and Andrea Hernandez: Genre Awareness, Academic Argument, and Transferability.
Hendrickson and Garcia: Inviting Students to Determine for Themselves What it Means to Write Across Disciplines
Reiff , Mary Jo and Anis Bawarshi. Tracing Discursive Resources: How Students Use Prior Genre Knowledge to Negotiate New Writing Contexts in First-Year Composition.
Rounsaville, Angela: Selecting Genres for Transfer: The Role of Uptake in Students’ Antecedent Genre Knowledge. Composition Forum (Fall) 2012.
Language Theories and Boundary Discourses
Curzan, Anne: Teaching the Politics of Standard English
Gee, James Paul: Discourse: Small-d, Big-D
Perryman-Clark, Staci M. : African American Language, Rhetoric, and Students’ Writing: New Directions for SRTOL
Royster, Jaqueline Jones: When the First Voice Heard is Not Your Own
Ruecker, Todd: Here They Do This, There They Do That: Latinas/Latinos Writing across Institutions
Young, Vershawn: “Nah, We Straight”: An Argument Against Code Switching
Community
Alexander , Johnathan and Susan Jarratt: Rhetorical Education and Student Activism
Multimodal Writing
Anderson, Rebekka: Teaching Visual Rhetoric as Close Reading Strategy
Ceraso, Steph: (Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening, Bodily Learning, and the Composition of Sonic Experiences
Dieterle, Brandy, and Stephanie Vie: Digital First-Year Composition: Integrating Multimodality into a Writing about Writing Approach
Yancey, Kathleen. Re-designing Graduate Education in Composition and Rhetoric:
The Use of Remix as Concept, Material, and Method
Designing and Evaluating Writing Courses and Programs
Boone, Stephanie, et. al.: Imagining a Writing and Rhetoric Program Based on Principles of Knowledge “Transfer”: Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric
Broad, Bob: What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing
Cosgrove, Cornelius: What our Graduates Write: Making Program Assessment . . .
Dryer, Dylan, Darsie Bowden, Beth L. Brunk-Chavez, et. al. Revising FYC Outcomes for a Multimodal, Digitally Composed World: The WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (Version 3.0),
Huot, Brian: Towards a New Discourse of Assessment for the Writing Classroom
Kumar , Rita and Brenda Refaei: Designing a Problem-Based Learning Intermediate Composition Course
Ruecker, Todd: Reimagining “English 1311: Expository English Composition” as “Introduction to
Rhetoric and Writing Studies”
Scott , Tony and Lil Brannon: Democracy, Struggle, and the Praxis of Assessment
Books
Anson, Chris and Jessie More: Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer
Bransford, John, et. al. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, School. Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education National Research Council
Roen, Duane, et. al. Strategies for Teaching First Year Composition
Wardle, Elizabeth and Doug Downs: Writing about Writing: A College Reader, 2nd. ed.
Villanueva, Victor. Ed. Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. 2nd. ed. 874 pages.
Bibliographies
Writing about Writing Working Bibliography
Ted Rollins. Writing Transfer: An Annotated Bibliography.
