Comprehensive Exam Reading List

Comprehensive Exam Reading List COMPOSITION, LANGUAGE, AND RHETORIC

*M.A. candidates should read * titles; Ph.D. candidates should read all titles, unless otherwise indicated.

Composition:

*Barnett, Robert W., and Jacob S. Blumner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice. New York: Longman, 2001. [PhD level, read all. MA level, read these essays (given with their starting page number): Stephen North, p. 63; Andrea Lunsford, p. 92; Kenneth Bruffee, p. 206; Jeff Brooks, p. 219; Linda Shamoon and Deborah Burns, p. 225; Muriel Harris, p. 272; Anne DiPardo, p. 350] Bazerman, Charles, and David R. Russell, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1994. Berlin, James A. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900- 1985. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. *Corbett, Edward P.J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate. The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook. 4th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2000. [PhD level, read all. MA level, read these essays (given with their starting page number): Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe, p. 129; David Bartholomae, p. 258; Nancy Sommers, p. 279; Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford, p. 320] Dean, Terry. "Multicultural Classrooms: Monocultural Teachers." College Composition and Communication 40 (1989): 23-37. *Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. *Emig, Janet. The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1971. *Flower, Linda S., and John R. Hayes “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing.” CCC 32 (December 1981): 356-87. Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1971. Gilyard, Keith. Race, Rhetoric, and Composition. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999. Grimm, Nancy. Good Intentions: Writing Center Work for Postmodern Times. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1999. Hawisher, Gail E., and Cynthia L. Selfe, eds. Passions, Pedagogies, and Twenty-First Century Technologies. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 1999. Jarratt, Susan, and Lynn Worsham, eds. Feminism and Composition Studies. New York: MLA, 1998. [PhD and MA level, read: Elizabeth Flynn, p. 243; Dale Bauer, p. 351. PhD level, also read: Patricia Sullivan, p. 124, Shirley Wilson Logan, p. 425, Min-Zhan Lu, p. 436] Kirsch, Gesa, and Patricia Sullivan, eds. Methods and Methodology in Composition Research. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. *Lindemann, Erika. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. *McLeod, Susan, and Margaret Sovin. "What Do You Need to Start--and Sustain--A Writing Across the Curriculum Program?" WPA: Writing Program Administration 15 (1991): 25-34. Mortensen, Peter, and Gesa Kirsch, eds. Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Research of Literacy. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996. *Murray, Donald M. A Writer Teaches Writing. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. *Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary. New York: Free P, 1989. *Shaugnessy, Mina P. Errors and Expectations. New York: Oxford UP, 1979. *Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. NY: Oxford, 2001. [PhD level, read all. MA level, read Lad Tobin, p. 1; Christopher Burnham, p. 19; William Covino, p. 36; Rebecca Moore Howard, p. 54; Diana George and John Trimbur, p. 71; Deborah Mutnick, p. 183] *White, Edward M. Assigning, Responding, Evaluating. 3rd ed. NY: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999. Wolff, Janice M., ed. Professing in the Contact Zone: Bringing Theory and Practice Together. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2002. Yancey, Kathleen Blake, and Irwin Weiser, eds. Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Logan, UT: Utah UP, 1997.

Other useful reference books (not required reading): Enos, Theresa, ed. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. New York: Garland, 1996. Kennedy, Mary Lynch, ed. Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1998. Reynolds, Nedra, Patricia Bizzell, and Bruce Herzberg. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. [Also available online at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/]

Language Structure and Language Diversity:

Barber, Charles. The English Language: A Historical Introduction. New York: Cambridge UP, 2000. *Bauer, Laurie, and Peter Trudgill. Language Myths. NY: Penguin, 1998. Brown, H. Douglas. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2000. Byrd, Patricia, and Joy Reid. Grammar in the Composition Classroom: Essays on Teaching ESL for College-Bound Student. New York: Heinle, 1997. Chomsky, Noam. New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000. Clark, Virginia P., Paul A. Eschholz, and Alfred F. Rosa. Language: Readings in Language and Culture. 6th ed. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998. Connor, Ulla. Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Second-Language Writing. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. *Connors, Robert J., and Andrea Lunsford. “Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research.” College Composition and Communication 39 (1988): 395-409. Grabe, William, and Robert B. Kaplan. Theory and Practice of Writing: An Applied Linguistics Approach. White Plains: Longman, 1996. Hamp-Lyons, Elizabeth, ed. Assessing 2nd Language Writing in Academic Contexts. Westport: Greenwood, 1991. *Hartwell, Patrick. “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar.” College English 47 (1985): 105-127. Haussamen, Brock. Revising the Rules: Traditional Grammar and Modern Linguistics. 2nd ed. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2000. Haussamen, Brock, Amy Benjamin, Martha Kolln, and Rebecca S. Wheeler. Grammar Alive: A Guide for Teachers. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2003. *Heath, Shirley Brice. Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Rev. ed. New York: Cambridge UP, 1983. Kroll, Barbara, ed. Second Language Writing: Research Insights for the Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. Malinowitz, Harriet. Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1995. Martin-Jones, Marilyn, and Kathryn Jones. Multilingual Literacies: Reading and Writing Different Worlds. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. *Noguchi, Rei R. Grammar and the Teaching of Writing: Limits and Possibilities. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1991. *Oaks, Dallin D., ed. Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications. Cambridge: Heinle, 2001. [PhD and MA level: read chapter 5 on Linguistics, Education, and Social Policy (Heath, Labov, Spector, Wolfram, Kaplan, and Nunberg) and chapter 6 on Linguistics and Composition (Riley & Parker, Noguchi, Eggington, Stagberg, and Garcia)] Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. Paperback ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Silva, Tony J., and Paul Kei Matsuda, eds. On Second Language Writing. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000. *Smith, Neilson V. Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals. New York: Cambridge, 1999. *Vygosky, Lev. Thought and Language. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1986. *Weaver, Constance, ed. Teaching Grammar in Context. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1996. *Wheeler, Rebecca, ed. Language Alive in the Classroom. Westport: Greenwood- Praeger, 1999. Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. American English: Dialect and Variation. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.

Other useful reference books (not required reading): Cassidy, Frederic G, and Joan Hall, eds. Dictionary of American Regional English. 3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1985-1996. Chalker, Sylvia, and Edmund Weiner, eds. Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar. NY: Oxford UP, 1998. Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. NY: Cambridge UP, 1997. ---. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language. NY: Cambridge UP, 1995. Johnson, Keith, and Helen Johnson, eds. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics: A Handbook for Language Teaching. Malden: Blackwell, 1999. Matthews, Peter H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. NY: Oxford UP, 1997. McArthur, Tom, ed. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. NY: Oxford UP, 1992. Quirk, Randolf, et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. White Plains: Longman, 1989. Richards, Jack, John Platt, and Heidi Platt. Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. London: Longman UK, 1994. Stewart, Jr., Thomas W., and Nathan Vaillette, eds. Language Files: Materials for An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. 8th ed. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2001. Rhetoric: *Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Boston: Bedford Books, 1990. [PhD level, read all listed below. MA level, read chapters marked with asterisk] *General Introduction *Introduction - Classical Rhetoric *Isocrates *Against the Sophists *Plato Gorgias *Aristotle *Anonymous *Rhetorica ad Herennium, Book IV *Cicero *Quintilian *Introduction - Medieval Rhetoric *Augustine *Christine de Pizan *Introduction - Renaissance Rhetoric *Desiderius Erasmus *From Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style Peter Ramus *Francis Bacon *From The Advancement of Learning *Introduction - Enlightenment Rhetoric John Locke David Hume *George Campbell *Hugh Blair *Introduction - Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric *Introduction - Modern and Postmodern Rhetoric Mikhail Bakhtin From The Problem of Speech Genres *Kenneth Burke *From A Grammar of Motives *From A Rhetoric of Motives Hélène Cixous The Laugh of the Medusa Stanley Fish Corbett, Edward P. J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. 1-120. Cushman, Ellen. "The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change." College Composition and Communication 47 (1996): 7-28. *Enos, Theresa, and Stuart C. Brown, eds. Professing the New Rhetorics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994. [PhD level, read all listed below. MA level, read chapters marked with asterisk] *I. A. Richards, "How to Read a Page" *Richard Weaver, "The Cultural Role of Rhetoric" *Stephen Toulmin, "The Layout of Arguments" Chaïm Perelman, "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning" *Michel Foucault, "What Is an Author?" Wayne C. Booth, "The Idea of a University--as Seen by a Rhetorician" *Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede, "On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" Jim W. Corder, "Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love" Glenn, Cheryl. Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity through the Renaissance. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997. [MA and PhD level: read only Chapter One: "Mapping the Silences, or Remapping Rhetorical Territory"] Kennedy, George. A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994. Lunsford, Andrea A., ed. Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995. Murphy, James J. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages. Berkeley: U of California P, 1974. Porter, James E. Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing. Greenwich: Ablex, 1998.

Other useful reference books (not required reading): Rollinson, Philip, and Richard Geckle. A Guide to Classical Rhetoric. Signal Mountain, TN: Summertown, 1998.

(revised: April 2004)