Warchauer – The Changing Global Economy and the Future of English Teaching

Warschauer, Mark. “The Changing Global Economy and the Future of English Teaching.” TESOL Quarterly 34 3 (2000): 511-35. Print. According to W., his work will investigate the effects of late capitalism (he calls it informationalism – following Castells – but it also goes by post-Fordism, post-industrialism, information economy, etc.) on the teaching of English language.  Specifically he intends to cover three issues:  1)... Read More

Daniell – Narratives of Literacy: Connecting Composition to Culture

Daniell, Beth. “Narratives of Literacy: Connecting Composition to Culture.” College Composition and Communication, 50 (1999): 393-410. D. notes that the turn toward literacy in the 70s and 80s was the result of a staid presence by Marxist theory and ethnography.  Literacy – as she defines it – “connects composition, with its emphasis on students and classrooms, to the social, political, economic, historical, and cultural”... Read More

Wahlstrom – Teaching and Learning Communities: Locating Literacy, Agency, and Authority in the Digital Domain

Wahlstrom, Billie J. “Teaching and Learning Communities:  Locating Literacy, Agency, and Authority in a Digital Domain.” Computers and Technical Communication:  Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives. Ed. Selber, Stuart A. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997. 129-48. Print. W. acknowledges the importance of TC at the particular moment because its subject matter is located at the center of the “communication/technology” nexus of... Read More

Enos – Literacy in Athens During the Archaic Period

Enos, Richard Leo. “Literacy in Athens During the Archaic Period: A Prolegomenon to Rhetorical Invention.” Atwill, Janet, and Janice M. Lauer. Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. Print. 16 Enos begins by noting that Plato didn’t necessarily believe that the writing instruction of the sophists was not an epistemological activity; rather, it was merely a skill incapable of discovering new... Read More

CCR711 – Miller – The Formation of College English

Miller, Thomas P. The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. Much of the work that Miller does in this work is to demonstrate how English studies were reduced to literary studies (rhetoric and composition were stripped from the curriculum).  To achieve this Miller works an argument that traces the influences of Scottish professors whose roots... Read More