Readings in Composition

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 KnowledgeComposition 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

Voss, Julia: Who Learns from Collaborative Digital Projects? Cultivating Critical Consciousness and Metacognition to Democratize Digital Literacy Learning

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.