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EXAM READING LISTS: Allison Gross
Major Approach to Language Study 1: Rhetoric and Composition Studies
This area is designed with the purpose of understanding the political and historical landscape in and from which rhetoric and composition studies has emerged as a field within English studies. It also includes texts that represent approaches to teaching composition that have emerged from studies in the field that collectively indicate the changes over time in scholars’ understanding of the teaching of writing. Special attention will be given to the relationship of rhetoric to composition as well as the relationship between cultural studies and composition studies.
History and Context
Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985.
Carbondale, Southern Illinois UP, 1987.
---. Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring English Studies. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996.
Bizzell, Patricia. Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P,
1992.
Bullock, Richard and John Trimbur. The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary.
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991.
Connors, Robert J. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy. Pittsburgh:
U of Pittsburgh P, 1997.
Crowley, Sharon. Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. Pittsburgh: U
of Pittsburgh P, 1998.
Ede, Lisa. Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois UP, 2004.
Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition.
Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1992.
Fulkerson, Richard. “Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” CCC 56.4 (2005):
654-87.
Goggin, Maureen Daly. Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II
Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000.
Gold, David. Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American
Colleges, 1873-1947. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2008.
Harrington, Susanmarie, Keith Rhodes, Ruth Overman Fischer, and Rita Malenczyk, eds. The
Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus After the WPA Outcomes Statement. Logan:
Utah State UP, 2005. [selections]
Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject: Composition since 1966. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 1997.
Keller, Christopher J. and Christian R. Weisser. The Locations of Composition. Albany: State U
of New York P, 2007. [selections]
Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP,
1991.
Murphy, James J., ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Twentieth
Century America. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1990.
North, Stephen M. The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field.
Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1987.
Russell, David. Writing in the Academic Disciplines, 1870-1990: A Curricular History. 2nd ed.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.
Smit, David. The End of Composition Studies. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.
Yancey, Kathleen Blake, ed. Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon. Portsmouth,
NH: Boynton/Cook, 2006. [selections]
Approaches to Composition
Adler-Kassner, Linda, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters. Writing the Community: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Composition. Washington, DC: American Association
for Higher Education, 1997.
Bartholomae, David. Writing on the Margins: Essays in Composition and Teaching. New York:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005. [selections]
Bawarshi, Anis. Genre and the Invention of the Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention in
Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2003.
Bloom, Lynn Z., Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White, eds. Composition Studies in the New
Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP,
2003. [selections]
Broad, Bob. What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing.
Logan: Utah State UP, 2003.
Carroll, Lee Ann. Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.
Coogan, David. “Service Learning and Social Change: The Case for Materialist Rhetoric.” CCC
57.4 (2006): 667-693.
Cooper, Marilyn M., and Michael Holzman. Writing as Social Action. Portsmouth, NH:
Boynton/Cook, 1989.
Cushman, Ellen. “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change.” CCC 47.1 (1996): 7-28.
Dias, Patrick, and Anthony Pare. Transitions: Writing in Academic and Workplace Settings.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2000.
Eberly, Rosa. “From Writers, Audiences, and Communities to Publics: Writing Classrooms as
Protopublic Spaces.” Rhetoric Review 18.1 (1999): 165-178.
Elbow, Peter. Embracing Contraries: Explorations in Learning and Teaching. New York:
Oxford UP, 1986.
Fitts, Karen, and Alan W. France. Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy.
Albany, NY: SUNY, 1995.
Flower, Linda, and John R. Hayes. “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing.” CCC 32.4 (1981):
365-387.
France, Alan W. Composition As a Cultural Practice. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994.
Halasek, Kay. A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.
Harkin, Patricia, and John Schilb, eds. Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a
Postmodern Age. New York: MLA, 1991. [selections]
Hawisher, Gail E., and Cynthia L. Selfe, eds. Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century
Technologies. Logan: Utah State UP, 1999. [selections]
Horner, Bruce and John Trimbur. “English Only and U.S. College Composition.” CCC 53.4
(2002): 594-630.
Horner, Bruce, and Min-Zhan Lu. Representing the “Other”: Basic Writers and the Teaching of
Basic Writing. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators.
Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1999.
Howard, Rebecca Moore, and Amy E. Robillard, eds. Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities,
Contexts, Pedagogies. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2008.
Isaacs, Emily J., and Phoebe Jackson, eds. Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text.
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2001. [selections]
Kent, Thomas. Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois UP, 1999.
Lunsford, Andrea, and Lahoucine Ouzgane, eds. Crossing Borderlands: Composition and
Postcolonial Studies. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2004. [selections]
Matsuda, Paul Kei, and Tony Silva. Second Language Writing Research: Perspectives on the
Process of Knowledge Construction. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.
McComiskey, Bruce. Teaching Composition as a Social Process. Logan: Utah State UP, 2000.
McComiskey, Bruce, and Cynthia Ryan, eds. City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices. Albany:
SUNY, 2003.
Reynolds, Nedra. Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.
Schroeder, Christopher, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, eds. Alt Dis: Alternative Discourses
and the Academy. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. [selections]
Severino, Carol, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler, eds. Writings in Multicultural Settings.
New York: MLA, 1997. [selections]
Shamoon, Linda K., Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler, eds.
Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook,
2000. [selections]
Shaughnessy, Mina P. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. New
York: Oxford UP, 1977.
Soliday, Mary. The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher
Education. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2002.
Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick, eds. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2000. [selections]
Thaiss, Christopher J., and Terry Myers Zawacki. Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines:
Research on the Academic Writing Life. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2006.
Vandenberg, Peter, Sue Hum, and Jennifer Clary-Lemon, eds. Relations, Locations, Positions:
Composition Theory for Writing Teachers. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2006. [selections]
Villanueva, Victor, ed. Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2003.
[selections]
Weisser, Christian. Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public
Sphere. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Writing
New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition.
Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004.
Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key.” CCC 56.2
(2004): 297-328.
Major Approach to Language Study 2: Discourse and Rhetoric: Theory and Analysis
This area is designed with the purpose of generating broad knowledge of the fields of discourse studies, critical discourse analysis, and rhetorical criticism. It includes introductory texts as well as examples of methods put into practice and includes a section of theoretical work on discourse that serves the foundation for more specific applications. Special attention will be given to what the term “critical” adds to a discourse analysis and to the relationship between rhetoric and discourse.
Discourse Analysis
Barton, Ellen and Gail Stygall, eds. Discourse Studies in Composition. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton
P, 2002.
Coulthard, Malcolm. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. London: Longman, 1977.
Gee, James Paul. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. London:
Routledge, 1999.
Grimshaw, Allen Day. Collegial Discourse: Professional Conversation among Peers.
Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1989.
Johnstone, Barbara. Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
Mills, Sara. Discourse. London: Routledge, 2004.
Renkema, Jan. Introduction to Discourse Studies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004.
Schiffrin, Deborah. Approaches to Discourse. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994.
Schiffrin, Deborah, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton. The Handbook of
Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
van Dijk, Teun, ed. Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction. vol. 1 & 2 London:
Sage, 1997.
---, Text and Context: Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse. London:
Longman, 1977.
Wetherell, Margaret, Stephanie Taylor, and Simeon J. Yates, eds. Discourse Theory and
Practice: A Reader. London: Sage, 2006.
Critical Discourse Analysis
Chilton, Paul. Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 2004.
Chouliaraki, Lilie, and Norman Fairclough. Discourse in Late Modernity: Rethinking Critical
Discourse Analysis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.
Coulthard, Malcolm, and Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard. Texts and Practices: Readings in
Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Routledge, 1996.
Fairclough, Norman. Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. London:
Routledge, 2003.
-----. Critical Discourse Analysis. New York: Longman, 1995.
-----. Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge, MA: Polity, 1992.
Locke, Terry. Critical Discourse Analysis. New York: Continuum, 2004.
Macauley, Ronald K.S. Talk that Counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
Rogers, Rebecca, ed. An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education. Mahwah,
NJ: LEA, 2004.
Scollon, Ronald, and Suzanne B. K. Scollon. Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging
Internet. London: Routledge, 2004.
Silberstein, Sandra. War of Words: Language, Politics and 9/11. London: Routledge, 2002.
van Dijk, Teun. “Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis.” Discourse and Society 4 (1993):
249-83.
Weiss, Gilbert, and Ruth Wodak,eds. Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Wodak, Ruth and Michael Meyer, eds. Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. London:
Sage, 2002.
Wodak, Ruth, and Paul Chilton. A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005.
Rhetorical Criticism
Andrews, James. The Practice of Rhetorical Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 1996.
Bitzer, Lloyd F. "The Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 (1968): 1-14.
Brock, Bernard L., and Robert Lee Scott. Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: Twentieth-Century
Perspectives. 2nd ed. Wayne State UP, 1979.
Burgchardt, Carl R., ed. Readings in Rhetorical Criticism. State College, PA: Strata, 1995.
Condit, Celeste. "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Rhetorical Criticism: Diverse Bodies
Learning New Languages." Rhetoric Review 25.4 (2006): 368-372.
Cooper, Martha. "Rhetorical Criticism and Foucault's Philosophy of Discursive Events."
Communication Studies 38 (1987): 1-17.
Foss, Sonja. Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration & Practice. 4th ed. Prospect Heights, IL:
Waveland, 2008.
Foss, Sonja K., Karen A. Foss, and Robert Trapp. Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric. 3rd
ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 2001.
Herrick, James A. The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction. 4th ed. Boston: Allyn
and Beacon, 2008.
Theoretical Underpinnings
Bourdieu, Pierre. Language and Symbolic Power. Ed. John B. Thompson. Trans. Gino Raymond
and Matthew Adamson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1993.
Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: APolitics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 1st American ed. New York:
Pantheon, 1977.
---. The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. Trans. A.M. Sheridan
Smith. New York: Pantheon, 1972.
Habermas, Jurgen. The Theory of Communicative Action. Boston: Beacon, 1984.
---. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Trans. Thomas Burger and F.
Lawrence. Cambridge: MIT, 1989.
Pecheux, Michel. Language, Semantics and Ideology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982.
Torfing, Jacob. New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and Zizek. Oxford: Blackwell,
1999.
Voloshinov, V.N. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Trans. Ladislav Matejka and I.R.
Titunik. New York: Seminar, 1973.
Special Topics: Feminist Approaches to Language and Pedagogy
This area focuses specifically on the relationship of feminism to studies of language and composition. It includes texts that are representative of interventions that feminist theory and practice have made in discourse analysis, rhetorical criticism, and the teaching of writing, as well as texts that examine the professional status of the field of rhetoric and composition within English studies. Also included are significant contributions to feminist theory that have either served as groundwork for feminist approaches to language and professional status or that complement an understanding of these particular feminist approaches by providing insight into important shifts within feminism and feminist thinking.
Feminism and Discourse
Cameron, Deborah. Verbal Hygiene. London: Routledge, 1995.
---. The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader. London: Routledge, 1990.
Cameron, Deborah, and Don Kulick. Language and Sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
2003.
Coates, Jennifer, ed. Language and Gender: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. [selections]
Eckert, Penelope, and Sally McConnell-Ginet. Language and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 2003.
---. “Putting Communities of Practice in Their Place.” Gender and Language 1.1 (2007): 27-37.
Hennessy, Rosemary. Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse. London: Routledge,
1993.
Johnson, Barbara. “Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion.” Feminisms: An Anthology of
Literary Theory and Criticism. Eds. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991. 694-707.
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. Language and Woman’s Place. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.
Lazar, Michelle. Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Gender, Power, and Ideology in
Discourse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
---. "Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Articulating a Feminist Discourse Praxis." Critical
Discourse Studies 4.2 (2007): 141-164.
Mills, Sara. Feminist Stylistics. London: Routledge, 1995.
---, ed. Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Harlow: Longman, 1995.
Sunderland, Jane. Gendered Discourses. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Tannen, Deborah. Gender and Discourse. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
Wilkinson, S. and C. Kitzinger, eds. Feminism and Discourse: Psychological Perspectives.
London: Sage, 1995.
Wodak, Ruth, ed. Gender and Discourse. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997.
Feminism and Rhetoric and Composition
Bauer, Dale M. "The Other ‘F’ Word: The Feminist in the Classroom." College English 52
(April 1990): 385-96.
Bloom, Lynn Z. "Teaching College English as a Woman." College English 54.7 (November
1992): 818-25.
Caywood, Cynthia L. and Gillian R.Overing, eds. TeachingWriting: Pedagogy, Gender, and
Equity. Albany: SUNY, 1987. [selections]
Edwards, Lynnell Major. "What Should We Call You? Women, Composition Studies, and the
Question of Eminent Authority." Composition Studies 28.2 (Fall 2000): 43-59.
Eichhorn, Jill, et al. "A Symposium on Feminist Experiences in the Composition Classroom."
College Composition and Communication 43.3 (October 1992): 297-322.
Enos, Theresa. Gender Roles and Faculty Lives in Rhetoric and Composition. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois UP, 1996.
Flynn, Elizabeth A. “Composing as a Woman.” College Composition and Communication 39.4
(Dec. 1988): 423-35.
Glenn, Cheryl. Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the
Renaissance. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997.
---. Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.
Gore, Jennifer, and Carmen Luke, eds. Feminisms and Critical Pedagogy. New York:
Routledge, 1992.
hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York:
Routledge, 1994.
Jarratt, Susan C., and Lynn Worsham, eds. Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words.
New York: MLA, 1998. [selections]
Kirsch, Gesa E., et al, eds. Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. [selections]
Maralee Mayberry and Ellen Cronan Rose, eds. Meeting the Challenge: Innovative Feminist
Pedagogies in Action. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Micciche, Laura R. Doing Emotion: Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching. Portsmouth, NH:
Boynton/Cook, 2007.
Miller, Susan. “The Feminization of Composition.” The Politics of Writing Instruction:
Postsecondary. Ed. Richard Bullock, John Trimbur, and Charles I. Schuster. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991. 39-53.
Ritchie, Joy S. "Confronting the 'Essential' Problem: Reconnecting Feminist Theory and
Pedagogy." Journal of Advanced Composition 10.2 (Fall 1990): 249-73.
Sanchez-Casal, Susan, and Amie A. MacDonald, eds. Twenty-First Century Feminist
Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 1-28.
Schmidt, Jan Zlotnik, ed. Women/Writing/Teaching. Albany: SUNY, 1998. [selections]
Feminist Theory
Bauer,Dale M. Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community. New York:SUNY, 1988.
Belsey, Catherine. “Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text.” Feminisms: An
Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Eds. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991. 657-73.
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. U of
California P, 1993.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge,
1990.
Cixous, Helene. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and
Criticism. Eds. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991. 347-62.
Crenshaw,Kimberlé Williams. “Mapping the Margins:Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and
Violence Against Women of Color.” Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that
Formed the Movement. Eds. Kimberlé Crenshaw, et al. New York: New Press, 1995. 357-83.
deLauretis, Teresa. “Upping the Anti (sic) in Feminist Theory.” Feminisms: An Anthology of
Literary Theory and Criticism. Eds. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991. 326-46.
deLauretis, Teresa, ed. Feminist Studies/Critical Studies. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.
[selections]
Furman, Nelly. “Textual Feminism.” Women and Language in Literature and Society. Ed.
Sally McConnell-Ginet,et al. New York: Praeger, 1980. 45-54.