Analysis, Synthesis, Analytic/Synthetic: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 6 May 2007

Bazerman, Charles.  The Informed Reader:  Contemporary Issues in the Disciplines.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1989.  p. 10, "How to Write Syntheses";  p. 12, "How to Write Analyses."

Brady, Laura.  "La Huesera:  Articulating the Skeletons of Stories and Essays."  Questioning Authority:  Stories Told in School.  Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington.  Ann Arbor:  U Michigan P, 2001.  97-114. 

Bruner, Jerome S.  The Process of Education.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard UP, 1961. 

Chandler, Daniel.  Semiotics:  The Basics.  New York:  Routledge, 2002. 

Clark, Stephen W.  The Normal Grammar:  Analytic and Synthetic.  New York:  A.S. Barnes, 1872. 

Cloeren, Hermann J.  Language and Thought:  German Approaches to Analytic Philosophy in the 18th and 19th Centuries.  1988.

Ganter, Granville.  "The Art of Prophecy:  Interpretive Analysis, Academic Discourse, and Expository Writing."  Composition Studies 29.1 (Spring 2001):  63-79. 

George, Diana.  "From Analysis to Design:  Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing."  College Composition and Communication 52.1 (September 2002):  11-39. 

Harvey, Irene E.  Rev. of Norris, Christopher.  The Deconstructive Turn:  Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy.  London:  Methuen, 1983.  And Ryan, Michael.  Marxism and Deconstruction:  A Critical Articulation.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1982.  Philosophy and Rhetoric 19 (1986):  201-4.

Miller, Thomas P.  "Communication and Knowledge:  Theorizing in a World Beyond Language."  Rhetoric Society Quarterly 17 (1987):  433-46.

Muchmore, James A., et al.  "Researching the I-Search Paper:  An Exploration of Analytical Thinking and Student Learning."  Journal of Teaching Writing 19.1-2 (2001):  52-75.

Murphy, Ann.  "Transference and Resistance in the Basic Writing Classroom:  Problematics and Praxis."  College Composition and Communication 40 (1989):  175-87. 

O'Grady, William, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, and Janie Rees-Miller, eds.  Contemporary Linguistics:  An Introduction.  4th ed.  New York:  Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.

Putnam, Hilary.  "After Empiricism."  Post-Analytic Philosophy.  Ed. John Rajchman and Cornel West.  New York:  Columbia UP, 1985, 20-30.

Quine, W.V.O.  Word and Object.  1960.

Rajchman, John, and Cornel West, eds.  Post-Analytic Philosophy.  New York:  Columbia UP, 1985. 

Rosenwasser, David, and Jill Stephen.  Writing Analytically.  2nd ed.  Fort Worth:  Harcourt, 2000. 

Rubin, Lois.  "Combining the Personal and Analytical:  Assignments for Basic Writing."  Teaching English in the Two-Year College 19.2 (1992):  141-147. 

Spencer, George. An English Grammar on Synthetical Principles.  New York:  Mark H. Newman, 1850, 1853.  

Stafford, Barbara Maria. Visual Analogy:  Consciousness as the Art of Connecting.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT P, 2001. 

Suskind, Ron.  "Without a Doubt."  New York Times 17 Oct. 2004.  LexisNexis.  Syracuse U, Bird Lib. 30 Oct. 2004.  <http://web.lexis-nexis.com.libezproxy.syr.edu>.

Walker, Jeffrey.  "Of Brains and Rhetorics."  College English 52 (March 1990):  301-22.

Webb-Peterson, Patricia R.  "Web Page 'Place' Assignment and Analysis Assignment."  Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition.  Ed. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner. Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 2002.  458-463. 

White, Edward M.  "Holisticism."  College Composition and Communication 35 (1984):  400-9.

Witte, S.P., et al.  "A Comparison of Analytic and Synthetic Approaches to the Teaching of College Writing."  Austin, TX:  Texas U Department of English, August 1981.  (ERIC ED 209 677)