Muchiri et al. – Improting Composition: Teaching and Researching Academic Writing Beyond North America

Muchiri, Mary N., et al. “Importing Composition: Teaching and Researching Academic Writing Beyond North America.” College Composition and Communication 46 2 (1995): 175-98. Print. The authors begin by recognizing that composition is a mostly North American discipline . . . and this makes sense because it is concerned with the local practice of teaching; however, because composition also lays claim to research of academic writing (and,... Read More

Rickly – Messy Contexts: Research as Rhetorical Situation

Rickly, Rebecca.  “Messy Contexts: Research as a Rhetorical Situation.” Abstract: In this chapter. I argue that the required methods course for graduate students in composition and technical communication should be the location of learning not just about research methods, or how to critique them, but how to use and apply them rhetorically in increasingly complex and intricate situations, particularly in the newly  technologized sites... Read More

CCCC2011 Presentation

I have two different versions of this presentation.  The first places a greater emphasis on the historical genesis of copyright.  The second places a greater emphasis on the social nature of commons-based peer production.  Enjoy!  Read More

CCR691

Composition Research Agendas in the 1960s and 1970s Richard Lloyd-Jones History, Reflection, and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition, 1963-1983 This relatively short piece discusses one veteran rhet/comp professor’s experience with administering writing research for national organizations like NCTE, NAEP, and other groups during the 1960s.  In his introduction, Lloyd-Jones notes a key theme that is spun throughout his essay: namely,... Read More