Donahue – “Internationalization” and Composition Studies: Reorienting the Discourse

Donahue, Christiane. “”Internationalization” And Composition Studies: Reorienting the Discourse.” College Composition and Communication 61 2 (2009): 212-43. Print. Abstract:  While internationalization has become a buzzword in composition scholarship and teaching, our discourses tend toward fuzzy uses and understandings of the term and its multiple implications. We tend to focus on how our U.S. experience is being internationalized:... Read More

Smagorinsky – The Method Section as Conceptual Epicenter in Constructing Social Science Reports

Citation: Smagorinsky, Peter.  “The Method Section as Conceptual Epicenter in Constructing Social Science Reports.”  Written Communication 25.3 (2008): 389 – 411.  Print. Abstract: In this article, the author argues that Method sections in social science research reports, particularly those that employ qualitative methods, often lack sufficient detail to make any results that follow from the analytic method trustworthy. The author provides... Read More

Haswell – NCTE/CCCC’s Recent War on Scholarship

Citation: Haswell, Richard H.  “NCTE/CCCC’s Recent War on Scholarship.” Written Communication 22.2 (2005): 198-223.  Print. Abstract: This article documents aspects of the history of support for scholarship by two professional organizations involved with teaching composition at the postsecondary level: the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Evidence is found that... Read More

Bazerman – Theories of the Middle Range in Historical Studies of Writing Practice

Citation: Bazerman, Charles.  “Theories of the Middle Range in Historical Studies of Writing Practice.”  Written Communication 25.3 (2008): 298-318. Abstract: Recent historical examinations of nonliterary, nontheoretical texts within their activity settings have aimed to identify the historically developed communicative and rhetorical resources currently available to writers and to reveal the dynamics of the formation, use, and evolution of... 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