Curriculum: 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 21 December 2007

Bernstein, Charles. "'A Blow Is Like an Instrument': The Poetic Imaginary and Curricular Practices." Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Eds. David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 39-51.

Butler, Paul. "Composition as Countermonument: Towad a New Space in Writing Classrooms and Curricula." WPA: Writing Program Administration 29.3 (Spring 2006).

Carroll, Lee Ann. Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

Comprone, Joseph J. "Recent Research in Reading and Its Implications for the College Composition Curriculum." Rhetoric Review 1 (1983): 122-137. Rpt. Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition. Ed. Gary A. Olson and Julie Drew. Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1996. 163-176.

Downing, David B., Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu, eds. Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002.

Fish, Stanley. "Aim Low." Chronicle of Higher Education 16 May 2003.

Graff, Gerald. "Our Undemocratic Curriculum." Profession 2007: 128-135.

Harris, Jeanette, and Christine Hult. "Using a Survey of Writing Assignments to Make Informed Curricular Decisions. WPA: Writing Program Administration 8.3 (1985): 7-14.

Herzberg, Bruce. "Composition and the Politics of the Curriculum." The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. Ed. Richard Bullock, John Trimbur, and Charles Schuster. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991. 97-118.

Holdstein, Deborah H. "Corporate Textbook Production, Electronic Resources, and the Responsible Curriculum." Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Eds. David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 52-61.

Jackson, Austin, and Geneva Smitherman. "'Black People Tend to Talk Eubonics': Race and Curricular Diversity in Higher Education." Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition. Ed. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2002. 46-50.

Juzwick, Mary. "Handling Curicular Resources: An Examination of Two Teachers' Tactical Appropriation of First-Year Composition Curricula." WPA: Writing Program Administration 27.1-2 (Fall/Winter 2003): 40-58.

Kress, Gunter. "Representational Resources and the Production of Subjectivity: Questions for the Theoretical Development of Critical Discourse Analysis in a Multicultural Society." Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis. Ed. Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcom Coulthard. New York: Routledge, 1996. 15-31.

Laidlaw, Linda. Reinventing Curriculum: A Complex Perspective on Literacy and Writing. Mahwah: Erlbaum, 2005.

Loux, Ann Kimble, and Rebecca M. Stoddart. "Denial, Conflagration, Pride: Three Stages in the Development of an Advanced Writing Requirement." College Composition and Communication 45 (1994): 521-534. Rpt. Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition. Ed. Gary A. Olson and Julie Drew. Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1996. 99-112.

McCarthy, Cameron, Michael D. Giardina, Susan Juanita Harewood, and Jin-Kyung Park. "Contesting Culture: Identity and Curriculum Dilemmas in the Age of Globalization, Postcolonialsm, and Multiplicity." Harvard Educational Review 73.3 (Fall 2003): 449-465.

North, Stephen M., et al. Refiguring the Ph.D. in English Studies: Writing, Doctoral Education, and the Fusion-Based Curriculum. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.

Ohmann, Richard. "Accountability and the Conditions for Curricular Change." Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Eds. David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 62-74.

Owens, Derek. "Curriculum for Seven Generations." Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Eds. David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 118-138.

Ramage, John. "From Profession to Discipline: The Politics of Establishing a Writing Concentration." Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000. 137.

Reid, E. Shelley. "A Changing for the Better: Curriculum Revision as Reflective Practice in Teaching and Administration." WPA: Writing Program Administration 26.3 (Spring 2003): 10-27.

Schildgen, Brenda Deen. "Master of Arts in Writing." WPA: Writing Program Administration 15.1-2 (Fall/Winter 1991): 35-50.

Schwegler, Robert A. "Curriculum Development in Composition." Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000. 25-31.

Seitz, James E. Motives for Metaphor: Literacy, Curriculum Reform, and the Teaching of English. Pittsburgh, PA: U Pittsburgh P, 1999.

Shumaker, Arthur W. "How Can a Major in Composition Be Established?" Journal of Advanced Composition 2 (1981): 139-146.

Slevin, James F. "Disciplining Students: Whom Should Composition Teach and What Should They Know?" Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. 153-65.

Smit, David. "Curriculum Design for First-Year Writing Programs." " The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators. Ed. Irene Ward and William J. Carpenter. New York: Addison Wesley, 2002. 185-206.

Smith, Jeff. "Students' Goals, Gatekeeping, and Some Questions of Ethics." College English 59.3 (March 1997): 299-320.

Spear, Karen I. "Thinking and Writing: A Sequential Curriculum for Composition." Journal of Advanced Composition 4 (1983): 47-63.

Sosnoski, James J., Patricia Harkin, and Ann Feldman. "Collaborative Learning Networks: A Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century." Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Eds. David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 219-230.

Stacey, David, Claire Woods, and Rob Pope. "A Symposium on 'What Will We Be Teaching?': International Re-Visions in University-level English Curricula." Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy. Eds. David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 107-117.

Weiser, Irwin. "Local Research and Curriculum Development: Using Surveys to Learn About Writing Assignments in the Disciplines." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 95-106.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake, ed. Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2006.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake, and Meg Morgan. "Reflective Essays, Curriculum, and the Scholarship of Administration: Notes Toward Administrative Scholarly Work." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 81-94.