The Evolution of College English

Thomas Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy a... Lees meer

Local Histories

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• In Local Histories, the contributors seek to challenge the widely held belief that the origin of American composition as a distinguishable discipline ... Lees meer

Interests and Opportunities

Steve Lamos

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• In the late 1960s, colleges and universities became deeply embroiled in issues of racial equality. To combat this, hundreds of new programs were intro... Lees meer

Authentic Writing

Jeffrey Rice

• Hardcover | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• In typical academic circles, texts must be critiqued, mined for the obfuscated meanings they hide, and shown to reveal larger, broader meanings than w... Lees meer

Reforming Women

Lisa Shaver

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• In Reforming Women , Lisa Shaver locates the emergence of a distinct women's rhetoric and feminist consciousness in the American Female Moral Reform S... Lees meer

Nostalgic Design

William C Kurlinkus

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Nostalgic Design presents a rhetorical analysis of twenty-first century nostalgia and a method for designers to create more inclusive technologies. No... Lees meer

Resisting Brown

Candace Epps-Robertson

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Many localities in America resisted integration in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education rulings (1954, 1955). Virginia's Prince Edward Cou... Lees meer

Toward a Composition Made Whole

Jody Shipka

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• To many academics, composition still represents typewritten texts on 8.5\u201d x 11\u201d pages that follow rote argumentative guidelines. In Toward a... Lees meer

Fragments of Rationality

Lester Faigley

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past th... Lees meer

Buying into English

Catherine Prendergast

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• Many developing countries have little choice but to "buy into English" as a path to ideological and material betterment. Based on extensive fieldwork ... Lees meer

Producing Good Citizens

Amy Wan

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. T... Lees meer

Tasteful Domesticity

Sarah Walden

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to con... Lees meer

The Labyrinths Of Literacy

Harvey Graff

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Lit... Lees meer

The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory

Ira Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Despite its centrality to its field, there is no consensus regarding what rhetorical theory is and why it matters. The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical T... Lees meer

Crossing Borderlands

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• On the surface, postcolonial studies and composition studies appear to have little in common. However, they share a strikingly similar goal: to provid... Lees meer

Writing and Desire

Jonathan Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to t... Lees meer

Literate Zeal

Janet Eldred

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• In Literate Zeal, Janet Carey Eldred examines the rise of women magazine editors during the mid-twentieth century and reveals their unheralded role in... Lees meer

Composition In The University

Sharon Crowley

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• Composition in the University examines the required introductory course in composition within American colleges and universities. Crowley argues that ... Lees meer

Experimental Writing in Composition

Patricia Suzanne Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• From the outset, experimental writing has been viewed as a means to afford a more creative space for students to express individuality, underrepresent... Lees meer

Wit's End

Sean Zwagerman

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• In Wit's End, Sean Zwagerman offers an original perspective on women's use of humor as a performative strategy as seen in works of twentieth-century A... Lees meer

Like What We Imagine

David Bartholomae

• Hardcover | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• David Bartholomae has been a prominent figure in the field of composition and rhetoric for almost five decades. This is an end-of-career book, a colle... Lees meer

Habitual Rhetoric

Alex Mueller

• Hardcover | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Writing has always been digital. Just as digits scribble with the quill or tap the typewriter, digits compose binary code and produce text on a screen... Lees meer

Unorganized Women

Jane Greer

• Hardcover | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women... Lees meer

Shades of Sulh

Rasha Diab

• Paperback | Engels | Composition, Literacy, and Culture | nr. 163
• Winner, 2018 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Sulh is a centuries-old Arab-Islamic peacemaking process. In Shades of Sulh, Rasha Diab explores the possibil... Lees meer