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Composition Pedagogy Texts: A Working Bibliography for New Teachers of College Writing

Anson, Chris. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research. Urbana: NCTE, 1989.

Barnett, Robert W., et. al. The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

---. Rhetorics, Poetics and Cultures. Urbana: NCTE, 1996.

Bizzel, Patricia. "Contact Zones and English Studies." College English 56.3 (1994): 163-169.

Bloom, Lynn Z., Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White, eds. Composition in the 21st Century. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.

Brereton, John. The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1975. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.

Cliford, John and John Schilb. Writing Theory and Critical Theory. New York: MLA, 1994.

Connors, Robert, and Cheryl Glenn. The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

---. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory and Pedagogy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Cooper, Charles R., and Lee Odell, eds. Evaluating Writing. Urbana: NCTE, 1999.

Corbett, Edward P.J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate, eds. The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Crosswhite, Jim. The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attractions of Argument. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Crowley, Sharon. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

---. Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Donovan, Timothy R., and Ben W. McClelland. Eight Approaches to Teaching Composition. Urbana: NCTE, 1980.

Dobrin, Sidney I. Constructing Knowledges: The Politics of Theory Building and Pedagogy in Composition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Ede, Lisa. "Teaching Writing." An Introduction to Composition Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Elbow, Peter. "Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment." College English 55 (Feb 1993): 187.

---. "Reflections on Academic Discourse: How it Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues." College English 53 (Feb 1991): 135.

---. "Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond Mistakes, Bad English and Wrong Language." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 19.3 (Summer 1999): 359-88.

---. Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Enos, Theresa, ed. A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers. New York: Random House, 1987.

Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

Gere, Ann Ruggles. Language and Reflection: An Integrated Approach to Teaching English. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997.

Haswell, Richard. "Textual Research and Coherence: Findings, Intuition, Application." College English 51 (1989): 305-319.

Jolliffe, David. Inquiry and Genre: Writing to Learn in College. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Hillocks, George. Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.

Jarratt, Susan C., and Lynn Worsham, eds. Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words. New York: MLA, 1998.

Kent, Thomas, ed. Post-Process Theory: Beyond The Writing-Process Paradigm. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.

Kinneavy, James L. A Theory of Discourse. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.

Lindemann, Erika. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Lindemann, Erika, and Gary Tate. An Introduction to Composition Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Murphy, Christina, and Steve Sherwood, eds. The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Olson, Gary A., and Sidney I. Dobrin eds. Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Rhodes, Richard. How to Write: Advice and Reflections. New York: Quill Publishers, 1996.

Tate, Gary, Edward P.J. Corbett, and Nancy Myers. The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, 4th Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Tate, Gary, et. al., eds. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Trimbur, John. The Call to Write. New York: Longman, 1999.

Villanueva, Victor, Jr. Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color. Urbana: NCTE, 1993.

--- , ed. Cross-Talk in Composition Theory: A Reader. Urbana: NCTE, 1997.

Walvoord, Barbara, and Lucille McCarthy. Thinking and Writing In College. Urbana: NCTE, 1990.

White, Edward. Assigning, Responding, Evaluating: A Writing Teacher’s Guide. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. 1998.

Wiley, Gleason, and Louise Wetherbee Phelps. Composition in Four Keys: Inquiring Into the Field: Art, Nature, Science, Politics. Ed. Mark Wiley, Barbara Gleason, and Louise Wetherbee Phelps. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1996.

Williams, David R. Sin Boldly! Dr. Dave's Guide to Writing the College Paper. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Book Group: 2000.

Williams, James D. Preparing to Teach Writing: Research, Theory and Practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

Winterowd, W. Ross, andJack Blum. A Teacher’s Introduction to Composition in the Rhetorical Tradition. Urbana: NCTE, 1994.