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Rhetoric Resources

  • Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford Books, 2001.
  • Brummett, Barry. Reading Rhetorical Theory. Wadsworth, 1999. [Good introductory text on rhetorical theory.]
  • Corbett, Edward P.J. and Robert J Connors. “A Survey of Rhetoric.” Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 489-543.
  • Covino, William and David A. Jolliffe.  Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries.  Allyn and Bacon, 1995. (especially their introduction, “What is Rhetoric”)
  • Crowley, Sharon and Debra Hawhee.  “Ancient Rhetorics: Their Differences, and the Differences They Make.”  Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students.  2nd ed.  Boston:  Allyn and Bacon, 1999.
  • Enos, Theresa (ed).  Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition.  New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
  • González, Alberto and Dolores V. Tanno, Rhetoric in Intercultural Contexts.  London: Sage, 1999.
  • Hart, Roderick P. and Suzanne Daughton.  Modern Rhetorical Criticism. 3rd ed. Allyn & Bacon, 2004.  [A good introductory text to learn about rhetoric.]
  • Heinrichs, Jay.  Thank you for arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion.  Three Rivers Press, 2007. [A more offbeat approach to learning about argumentation]
  • Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Appeals in Modern Rhetoric.  Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. [A good introductory text about modern rhetoric theory and practice.]
  • Lunsford, Andrea A. and Cheryl Glenn.  “Rhetorical Theory and the Teaching of Writing.” 1990.  The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing.  Eds. Cheryl Glenn, Melissa Goldthwaite, and Robert Connors. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.

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General Resources

  • Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross.  Classroom Assessment Techniques.  A Handbook for College Teachers.  2nd ed.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
  • Atwill, Janet M., and Janice M. Lauer, eds. Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
  • Bartholomae, David.  “The Study of Error.”  College Composition and Communication 31.3 (Oct. 1980):  253-69.
  • Bettem, LaSere, and Diane Weltner Strommer.  Teaching College Freshmen.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991.
  • Bitzer, Lloyd.  “The Rhetorical Situation.”  Philosophy and Rhetoric. 1.1 (1968): 1-14.
  • Bizzell, Patricia, Bruce Herzberg, and Nedra Reynolds.  The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing. 5th ed.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.  Also online at http://www.bedfordbooks. com/bb/.
  • Booth, Wayne.  The Vocation of a Teacher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
  • Bromley, Hank, and Michael W. Apple.  Education, Technology, Power: Educational Computing as a Social Practice.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
  • Cherry, Roger.  “Ethos vs. Persona: Self-Representation in Written Discourse.”  Written Communication 15.3 (Jul. 1998): 384-410.
  • Connors, Robert and Cheryl Glenn. The New St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing. 4th ed.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.
  • Corbett, Edward P., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate.  The Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook.  4th ed.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Curzan, Anne, and Lisa Damour.  First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student’s Guide to Teaching.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
  • Davis, Barbara Gross.  Tools for Teaching.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/
  • Ede, Lisa, and Andrea Lunsford. “Audience  Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and  Pedagogy.” CCC 35 (1984): 155–171.
  • Elbow, Peter. “Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshman and Colleagues.” College English 53.2 (Feb. 1991): 135-55.
  • Garber, Marjorie B.  Academic Instincts.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • Halasek, Kay, Tara Pauliny, Edgar Singleton, Rebecca Greenberg Taylor, Kathleen R. Wallace, and Matt Wanat.  The Writer’s Companion: A Guide to First-year Writing.  Needham Heights, MA: Pearson, 1999.
  • Hartwell, Patrick, “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar,” in Connors and Glenn, eds. The New St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing. 404-428.
  • Hawisher, Gail and Cynthia Selfe.  Global Literacies and the World-Wide Web.  New York: Routledge, 2000.
  • Holberg, Jennifer, and Mary Tyler, eds.  Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
  • hooks, bell.  Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.  New York: Routledge, 1994.
  • Hostetler, Karl D., R.M. Sawyer, Robert MacLaran, and Keith W. Prichard.  The Art and Politics of College Teaching: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Professor.  New York: Peter Lang, 1992.
  • Hyman, Ronald T.  Improving Discussion Leadership.  New York: Columbia University Teachers College Press, 1980.
  • Janangelo, Joseph, and Kristine Hansen.  Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs.  Portsmouth: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995.
  • Johnson, Nan. “Ethos and the Aims of Rhetoric.” Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
  • Kasteley, James.  “Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion.”  A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism.  Ed. Walter Jost and Wendy Olmstead.  Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
  • Killingsworth, Jimmie. “Rhetorical Appeals: A Revision.” Rhetoric Review 24.3 (2005): 249-63.
  • Light, Richard J.  Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
  • Lindemann, Erika.  A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers.  4th ed.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • McKeachie, Wilbert James. McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers.  10th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
  • Murray, Donald.  “Teach Writing as a Process…” Cross-Talk in Comp Theory.  Ed. Victor Villanueva. Urbana: NCTE, 1997.
  • Neff, Rose Ann and Maryellen Weimer.  Classroom Communication: Collected Readings for Effective Discussion and Questioning.  Madison: Magna, 1989.
  • Nilson, Linda. Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors. Boston: Anker, 1998.
  • Palmer, Parker J.  The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Finer Landscape of a Teacher’s Life.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
  • Pemberton, Michael A.  The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice.  Stanford, CT: Ablex, 2000.
  • Ponsot, Marie, and Rosemary Dean.  Beat Not the Poor Desk.  Boynton/Cook, 1989.
  • Pytlik, Betty P., and Sarah Liggett.  Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Programs, Practices.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Reiff, Mary Jo. Approached to Audience: The Major Perspectives. Chicago: Parlay, 2004.
  • Rodrigues, Dawn.  The Research Paper and the World Wide Web.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 1997.
  • Sellnow, Deanna.  The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts.  Sage, 2009.
  • Sommers, Nancy. “Responding to Student Writing.” The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching
  • Writing. 5th ed. Eds. Cheryl Glenn, Melissa Goldthwaite, and Robert Connors. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.
  • Shaughnessy, Mina P. Error and Expectations.  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 1979.
  • Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick.  A Guide to Composition Pedagogies.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
  • Vatz, Richard.  “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 6.3: 154-61.
  • Walker, Jeffrey. “A Body of Persuasion: The Enthymeme.” College English 56.1 (Jan. 1994): 46-65.
  • Women’s Needs Assessment Study Group.  Final Report.  Stanford: Dean of Student Affairs Office, 1992

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Readings on Peer Review Practices

  • Beaudin, Andrea L., Steven J. Corbett, Ilene W. Crawford. Peer Pressure, Peer Power:
  • Toward Systematic Collaborative Peer Review in the Composition and Writing Across the Curriculum Classroom. <http://galleryofwriting.org/writing/585497>
  • Belcher, Lynn. “Peer Review and Response: A Failure of the Process Paradigm as Viewed from the Trenches.” Reforming College Composition: Writing the Wrongs. Eds. Ray Wallace, Alan Jackson, and Lewis Wallace. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2000. 99-111. Print.
  • Bishop, Wendy. “Helping Peer Writing Groups Succeed.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 15 (1988): 120-25. Print.
  • Corbett, Steven J. “The Give and Take of Tutoring On Location: Peer Power and Authority in Classroom-Based Writing Tutoring.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 4.2 (Spring 2007): n. pag. Web. 7 August 2009.
  • Corbett, Steven J., and Juan C. Guerra. “Collaboration and Play in the Writing Classroom.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9.4 (Winter 2005): 106-11. Print.
  • George, Diana. “Working with Peer Groups in the Composition Classroom.” College Composition and Communication 35.3 (1984): 320-26. Print.
  • Grimm, Nancy. “Improving Students’ Responses to Their Peers’ Essays.” College Composition and Communication 37.1 (1986): 91-94. Print.
  • Harris, Muriel. “Collaboration Is Not Collaboration Is Not Collaboration: Writing Center vs. Peer-Response Groups.” College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 369-83. Print.
  • Holt, Mara. “The Value of Written Peer Criticism.” College Composition and Communication. 44 3.3 (1992): 348-92. Print.
  • Moss, Beverly J., Nels P. Highberg, and Melissa Nicolas, eds. Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print.
  • Newkirk, Thomas. “Direction and Misdirection in Peer Response.” College Composition and Communication. 35.3 (1984): 301-11. Print.
  • Reid, Shelley. "Shelley's (Quick) Guide for Writing Instructors: Full-Circle Peer Review." Website. <http://mason.gmu.edu/~ereid1/teachers/tchguidepeerrev.htm>
  • Spear, Karen. Sharing Writing: Peer Response Groups in English Classes. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1988. Print.

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Readings on Writing Effective Assignment Prompts

  • Brossell, Gordon C, and Barbara Hoetker Ash. "An Experiment with the Wording of Essay Topics." CCC 35 (December 1984): 423-25.
  • Gardner, Traci.  Designing Writing Assignments. NCTE, 2008.
  • ---. "Ten Tips for Designing Writing Assignments."  NCTE Web March 27, 2001. Re-Posted on Traci's Lists of Ten.  June 12, 2005.
  • Harris, Mickey & Mary Alm. "Sure fire tips leading to bad writing assignments."  Purdue Writing Lab.  (Handout)
  • Hoetker, James, and Gordon Brossell. "The Effects of Systematic Variations in Essay Topics on the Writing Performance of College Freshmen." CCC 40.4 (1989): 414-421.
  • Murphy, Sandy and Leo Ruth. Designing Writing Tasks for the Assessment of Writing. Ablex Publishing, 1988.  Available through Google Books.
  • Ruth, Leo, and Sandra Murphy. "Designing Topics for Writing Assessments: Problems of Meaning." CCC 35 (December 1984): 410-42.
  • White, Edward M.  Assigning, Responding, Evaluating: A Writing Teacher's Guide.  Bedford, 2006.

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Teaching Students with Disabilities

  • Disability Rhetoric, "a website for, and about, people studying, teaching, and researching at the intersection of disability studies and rhetoric/composition," produced by the Disability Studies Special Interest Group at CCCC.
  • Corrigan, John R.  “Teaching Writing to Dyslexic Students: A Guide for the Composition Instructor.”  Teaching English in the Two-Year College 24.3 (Oct. 1997): 205-11.
  • Livingston, Sue.  “Promising Practice: Teaching Developmental Writing to Post-Secondary Students Who Are Deaf.”  Journal of Post-Secondary Education and Disability 12.2 (Fall 1996): 43-44.
  • Summer, Caroline.  “Careless Errors: Teaching Writing to Post-Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities or Attention Deficit Disorder.”  ERIC ED443126, 1997.

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Selected Handbooks

  • The St. Martin’s Handbook
  • The Everyday Writer
  • The Bedford Handbook
  • The New Century Handbook

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Selected Rhetorics

  • Covino, The Elements of Persuasion
  • Graff and Birkenstein, They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing
  • Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz, Everything’s an Argument
  • Corbett and Eberly, The Elements of Reasoning
  • Rosenwasser and Stephen, Writing Analytically
  • Alfano and O’Brien, Envision in Depth: Reading, Writing, and Researching Arguments

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Websites

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