Composition Core Reading List

Atwell, N. (1998). In the middle: New understandings about writing, reading, and learning. Portsmouth, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Belenky, M.Field, et al. (1996). Women’s ways of knowing: The development of self, voice, and mind. 10th anniv. ed. New York: Basic.

Berlin, J. A.. (1996). Rhetorics, poetics, and cultures: Refiguring college English studies. Urbana, IL: N. C. T. E.

Berthoff, A. E. (1984). Reclaiming the imagination: Philosophical perspectives for writers and teachers of writing. Upper Montclair: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Bizzel, P., & Herzberg, B., ed. (2001). Selections from The rhetorical tradition: Readings from classical times to the present. 2nd ed.. Boston: Bedford.

Bloom, L.Z., Daiker, D.A., &. White, E.M., eds.. (1995). Composition in the 21st century: crisis and change. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press.

Brandt, D. (2001). Literacy in American lives. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Britton, J. N., Burgess, T., Martin, N., McLeod, A., & Rosen, H. (1979). The development of writing abilities (11-18). New York: Macmillan Education.

Bullock, R. H., Trimbur, J., & Schuster, C. T., (Eds.) (1991). The politics of writing instruction: Postsecondary. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Calkins, L. McCormick. (1983). Lessons from a child: On the teaching and learning of writing. Exter, NH: Heineman Educational Books.

Clifford, J., & Schilb, J., eds. (1994). Writing theory and critical theory. New York: MLA.

Connors, R. J. (1997). Composition-rhetoric: Background, theory, and pedagogy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Corbett, E. P.J., Myers, N., & Tate, G. (2000). The writing teacher’s sourcebook. 4th ed. New York: Oxford UP.

Crowley, S. (1998). Composition in the university: Historical and polemical essays. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Cushman, E., Kintgen, E., Kroll, B., & Rose, M., eds.(2001). Literacy: A critical sourcebook. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's. Elbow, P. (1973). Writing without teachers. New York: Oxford University Press.

Enos, T. (Ed.). (1987). A sourcebook for basic writing teachers. New York: Random House.

Faigley, L. (1992). Fragments of rationaltiy: Postmodernity and the subject of composition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Farris, C., & Anson, C. M. (Eds.). (1998). Under construction: Working at the intersections of composition theory, research, and practice. Logan: Utah State UP.

Flower, L.. (1994). The construction of negotiated meaning: a social-cognitive theory of writing. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP.

Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Seabury Press.

Fulwiler, Toby. (1987). Teaching with writing. upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook.

Geisler, C. (1994). Academic literacy and the nature of expertise: reading, writing, and knowing in academic philosophy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Gere, A. Ruggles. (1987). Writing groups: History, theory, and implications. Carbondale: CCCC’s, Southern Illinois University Press.

Gilyard, K., ed. (1994). Race, rhetoric, and composition. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook.

Graves, D. H. (1983). Writing: Teachers and children at work. Exeter, NH: Heineman Educational Books.

Greenbaum, A., ed. (2001). Insurrections: Approaches to resistance in composition studies. Albany, NY: SUNY.

Harkin, P., and Schilb, J., eds. (1991). Contending with words: Composition and rhetoric in a postmodern age. New York: MLA.

Harris, J. D. (1997). A teaching subject: composition since 1966. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Books.

Harris, J. (1990). Expressive discourse. Dallas: Southern Methodist UP.

Harste, J. C., Woodward, V. A., & Burke, C. L. (1984). Language stories and literacy lessons. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman Educational Books. Hawisher, G., & Selfe, C., eds.(1991). Evolving perspectives on computers and composition studies: Questions for the 1990s. Urbana, IL: NCTE.

Heath, S. Brice. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Herrington, A.,& Moran, C. (1992). Writing, teaching, and learning in the disciplines. New York: MLA.

Hooks, B. (1994). Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom. NY: Routledge.

Hurlbert, C. M., & Blitz, M. (Eds.). (1992). Composition and resistance. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Jarratt, S.C.., & Worsham, L., eds. (1998). Feminism and composition studies: In other words. New York: MLA.

Johannsen, R. L. (Ed.). (1971). Contemporary theories of rhetoric: Selected readings. New York: Harper and Row.

Kennedy, M.L. (1998). Theorizing composition: A critical sourcebook of theory and scholarship in contemporary composition studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Kintgen, E. R., Kroll, B. M., & Rose, M. (Eds.). (1988). Perspectives on literacy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Lindemann, E., & Anderson, D.(2001). A rhetoric for writing teachers. 4th ed. New York: Oxford UP.

Macrorie, K. (1984). Writing to be read. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Miller, S. (1991). Textual carnivals: The politics of composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press.

Moffet, J. (1968). Teaching the universe of discourse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Publishers.

Murray, D. M. (1968). A writer teaches writing: A practical method of teaching composition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Publishers.

Newkirk, T. (1997). The performance of self in student writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton/Cook. North, S. M. (1987). The making of knowledge in composition: Portrait of an emerging field. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

O’Reilley, M. R. (1993). The peaceable classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Perl, Sondra. (1994). Landmark essays on writing process. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press.

Phelps, L.W., & Emig, J., eds. (1995). Feminine principles and women’s experience in American composition and rhetoric.. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press.

Rose, M. (1988). Lives on the boundary: The struggles of America’s underprepared. New York: Free Press.

Rosenblatt, L. M. (1968). Literature as exploration. New York: Noble and Noble.

Schilb, J. (1996). Between the lines: Relating composition theory & literary theory. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook.

Severino, C., Guerra, J.C., & Butler, J.E., eds. (1997). Writing in multicultural settings. New York: MLA.

Shaughnessy, M. P. (1977). Errors and expectations: A guide for teachers of basic writing. New York: Oxford University Press.

Spellmeyer, K. (1993). Common ground: Dialogue, understanding, and the teaching of composition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick. (2001). A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford UP.

Tobin, Lad, & Newkirk, Thomas. (Eds.). (1995). Taking stock: The writing process movement in the 90s. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.

Villaneuva, V. Jr. (Ed.). (1997). Cross-talk in comp theory: A reader. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Vygotsky, L. S. (1962). Thought and Language. Trans. E. Hanfmann & G. Vakar. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Revised: September 2002