Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues, and Perspectives

Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues, and Perspectives

Edited by Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda

Published by Utah State University Press (June 2012)
Available at Amazon.com

Table of Contents

Foreword

Andrea Lunsford

Introduction: How Did We Get Here?

Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda

I:  The State of the Field(s)

Chapter One:                      

Creation Myths and Flashpoints: Understanding Basic Writing through Conflicted Stories

Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington

Chapter Two:

Teaching Composition in the Multilingual World: Second-Language Writing in Composition Studies

Paul Kei Matsuda

Chapter Three:

Re-mapping Technical Writing: Articulating the State of the Art and Composition Studies

Tim Peeples and Bill Hart-Davidson

Chapter Four:          

Writing Center Scholarship: A “Big Cross-Disciplinary Tent”

Lauren Fitzgerald

Chapter Five:                      

Writing Across the Curriculum: National Circumstances, Local Knowledge

Rita Malenczyk

Chapter Six:

Scholarly Positions in Writing Program Administration

Jeanne Gunner

II:  Innovations, Advancements, and Methodologies

Chapter Seven:

Re-Imagining the Nature of FYC: Trends in Writing-about-Writing Pedagogies

Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle

Chapter Eight:        

Transfer, Portability, Generalization: Does Composition ‘Carry’?

Christiane Donahue

Chapter Nine:                      

Writing Assessment in the Early 21st Century:  A Primer

Kathleen Blake Yancey

Chapter Ten:          

Studying Literacy in Digital Contexts: Computers and Composition Studies

Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher

Chapter Eleven:

“What Goes On Here?” The Uses of Ethnography in Composition Studies

Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater

Chapter Twelve:

Archival Research in the Field of Rhetoric and Composition

Barbara L’Epplantenier and Lisa S. Mastrangelo

Chapter Thirteen:  

Writing Pedagogy Education: Instructor Development in Composition Studies

Heidi Estrem and E. Shelley Reid

Afterword

Redefining the Ineffable—Or, Creating Scholarly Presence and a Usable Future: An Editor’s Perspective

Deborah Holdstein