Schaub – Beyond These Shores: An Argument for Internationalizing Composition
Schaub, Mark. “Beyond These Shores: An Argument for Internationalizing Composition.” Pedagogy 3 1 (2003): 85-98. Print. S. begins the essay by reminding his readers that, as teachers, we must remain committed to the internationalization of the writing classroom (86). Specifically, S. claims that “as professionals we should investigate ways to internationalize the discipline of composition by expanding our conception of the field,... Read More
Wysocki et al. – Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
Wysocki, Anne Frances et al. Writing New Media : Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State University Press, 2004. Print. Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications (Wysocki) W. references Bolter and Kress early on in this first chapter to point out the fact that writing is always changing; however, today, writing’s “material practice” is changing in fairly quick and momentous ways. ... Read More
Young – Arts, Crafts, Gifts, and Knacks: Some Disharmonies in the New Rhetoric
Young, Richard. “Arts, Crafts, Gifts, and Knacks: Some Disharmonies in the New Rhetoric.” Visible Languages 14 4 (1980): 341-350. Print. In this article Young is exploring how the differences between a “vitalist” theory of composing and a “technical” theory effect the what and how of teaching writing. Ultimately, Young notes that both groups seems to be on the side of right (at least in some sense). Y. begins by highlighting... Read More
Kitzhaber – Themes, Theories, and Therapy: The Teaching of Writing in College
Kitzhaber, Albert. Themes, Theories, and Therapy: The Teaching of Writing in College. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1963. Questions framing this study: Can English compsotiion at Dartmouth be taught more effectively in the required freshman English courses that it is now? And Can anything be done to ensure that students will continue to write at least as well after they have left freshman English as they do while they are taking it... Read More
Park – Theories and Expectations: On Conceiving Composition and Rhetoric as a Discipline
Park, Douglas B. “Theories and Expectations: On Conceiveing Composition and Rhetoric as a Discipline.” College English, 41.1 (1979). 47-56. Park begins by recounting how – as composition studies continues to grow and proliferate in academic settings – the confusing mixture of qualitative and quantitiative research methods, practice-oriented vs. theoretically positioned scholarship, and speculative vs. contemplative anecdotal... Read More
