Canagarajah – The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued

Canagarajah, A. Suresh. “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued.” College Composition and Communication 57 4 (2006): 586-619. Print. Summary (from Article): Contesting the monolingualist assumptions in composition, this article identifies textual and pedagogical spaces for World Englishes in academic writing. It presents code meshing as a strategy for merging local varieties with Standard Written English in... Read More

Flower – Intercultural Inquiry and the Transformation of Service

Linda Flower – Intercultural Inquiry and the Transformation of Service Flower notes that “guerilla service” in community engagement work (the hopping in and out of soup kitchens, nursing homes, neighborhood/community organizations) without sustained engagement or reflection can be even more violent than not engaging at all. F. notes that often students “find their academic agendas for service and action leave them standing isolated from the... Read More

Crowley – Invention in 19th Century Rhetoric

Crowley, Sharon. “Invention in Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric.” College Composition and Communication 36 1 (1985): 51-60. Print. In this piece Crowley argues against the charge that 19th century rhetoricians like Alexander Bain, John Franklin Genung, Adams Sherman Hill, and Barrett Wendell lacked originality in their rhetorical works. Crowley claims that the theoretical tradition passed on from 18th century rhetoricians provided huge problems... Read More

Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity

Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity Introduction: From Vitalism to Complexity Hawk claims that compositionists consider the term vitalism as an “anything goes” approach to writing and thinking, as an “ahistorical category that subsumes multiple divergent practices, and as an assumed negative counterpart to preferred rhetorical practices that establishes a binary between rhetoric and poetics” (3). ... Read More

A Modestly Unpopular Proposal – CCR760

You all likely guessed what article I would be responding to this week.  Since last semester I’ve been involved in multiple discussions with multiple people – faculty, grad students, undergrads – about the role of technological proficiency when composing digital texts in our writing classes.  The reigning consensus (albeit with small affordances made to the nuance and complexity of the process of writing in our classes) is that we need not... Read More