Peter Elbow: A partial bibliography of his work


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 17 September 2006

Bartholomae, David. "Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow." College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 62-71.

Belanoff, Pat, Marcia Dickson, Sheryl I. Fontaine, and Charles Moran, eds. Writing with Elbow. Logan: Utah State UP, 2001.

Belanoff, Pat, and Peter Elbow. "Using Portfolios to Increase Collaboration and Community in a Writing Program." Portfolios: Process and Product. Ed. Pat Belanoff and Marcia Dickson. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991. 17-29.

Boe, John, and Eric Schroeder. "An Interview with Peter Elbow: 'Going in Two Directions at Once.'" Writing on the Edge 4.1 (Fall 1992): 9-30.

Briggs, John Channing. "Edifying Violence: Peter Elbow and the Pedagogical Paradox." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 15.1 (1995): 83-102.

Briggs, John C. "Peter Elbow, Kenneth Burke, and the Idea of Magic." Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2 (Fall 1991): 377-94.

Brody, Miriam. Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition. Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

Elbow, Peter. "About Voice and Writing." Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing. Ed. Peter Elbow. Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1994. xi-xlvii.

Elbow, Peter. "Alternative Languages: Losers Weepers, Savers Keepers." Journal of Teaching Writing 21.1-2 (2004): 123-138.

Elbow, Peter, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. "An Annotated and Collective Bibliography of Voice: Soundings from the Voices Within." Voices on Voice: Definitions, Perspectives, Inquiry. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994. 315-344.

Elbow, Peter. "Being as Writer vs. Being an Academic: A Conflict in Goals." College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 72-83, 87-92.

Elbow, Peter. "The Challenge for Sentence Combining." Sentence-Combining: A Rhetorical Perspective. Ed. Donald A. Daiker, Andrew Kerek, and Max Morenberg. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1985. 232-245.

Elbow, Peter. "Closing My Eyes As I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience." College English 49 (1987): 50-69.

Elbow, Peter, and Pat Belanoff. A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Elbow, Peter. "The Cultures of Literature and Composition: What Could Each Learn from the Other?" College English 64.5 (May 2002): 533-546.

Elbow, Peter. "Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process." College English 45.4 (April 1983): 327-39.

Elbow, Peter. Embracing Contraries: Explorations in Learning and Teaching. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.

Elbow, Peter. Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.

Elbow, Peter. "Forward: About Personal Expressive Academic Writing." Pre/Text 11 (1990): 7-20.

Elbow, Peter. "High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing." Dialogue on Writing: Rethinking ESL, Basic Writing, and First-Year Composition. Ed. Geraldine DeLuca, Len Fox, Mark-Ameen Johnson, and Myra Kogen. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.

Elbow, Peter. "How to Get Power Through Voice." Composition in Four Keys. Ed. Mark Wiley, Barbara Gleason, and Louise Wetherbee Phelps. Mayfield, 1995. 62-67.

Elbow, Peter. "Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond 'Mistakes,' 'Bad English,' and 'Wrong Language.'" JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 19.3 (Summer 1999): 359-88.

Elbow, Peter, ed. Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing. Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1994.

Elbow, Peter. "Making Better Use of Student Evaluations of Teachers." Profession 92 (1992): 42-48.

Elbow, Peter. "Making Better Use of Student Evaluations of Teachers." Evaluating Teachers of Writing. Ed. Christine Hult. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994. 97-107.

Elbow, Peter. "More Accurate Evaluation of Student Performance." Journal of Higher Education 40 (1969): 219-230.

Elbow, Peter. Measuring Growth in English. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1974.

Elbow, Peter. "A Method for Teaching Writing." College English 30 (1968): 115-125.

Elbow, Peter, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. "On the Nature of Holistic Scoring: An Inquiry Composed on Email." Assessing Writing 1.1 (1994): 91-108.

Elbow, Peter. Oppositions in Chaucer. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1975.

Elbow, Peter. "The Pleasures of Voice in the Literary Essay: Explorations in the Prose of Gretel Ehrlich and Richard Selzer." Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Ed. Chris Anderson. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1989. 211-234.

Elbow, Peter. "The Process of WritingÑGrowing." Dialogue on Writing: Rethinking ESL, Basic Writing, and First-Year Composition. Ed. Geraldine DeLuca, Len Fox, Mark-Ameen Johnson, and Myra Kogen. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.

Elbow, Peter. "Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting out Three Forms of Judgment." College English 55.2 (February 1993): 187-206.

Elbow, Peter. "Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues." College English 53 (February 1991): 135-155. Rpt. Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons. Eds. Christina Russell McDonald and Robert L. McDonald. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002. 92-120.

Elbow, Peter, and Pat Belanoff. "Reflections on an Explosion: Portfolios in the '90s and Beyond." Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser. Logan: Utah State UP, 1997. 21-33.

Elbow, Peter. "Shall We Teach or Give Credit?" Soundings 54 (1971): 237-252.

Elbow, Peter. "The Shifting Relationships between Speech and Writing." College Composition and Communication 36.2 (October 1985): 283-303.

Elbow, Peter. "Some Thoughts on Expressive Discourse: A Review Essay." Journal of Advanced Composition 11.1 (Winter 1991): 83-94.

Elbow, Peter, and Pat Belanoff. "State University of New York at Stony Brook Portfolio-based Evaluation Program." Portfolios: Process and Product. Ed. Pat Belanoff and Marcia Dickson. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991. 3-16.

Elbow, Peter. "Three Mysteries at the Heart of Writing." Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. 10-30.

Elbow, Peter. "The Uses of Binary Thinking." Journal of Advanced Composition 13 (1993): 51-78.

Elbow, Peter. "Vernacular Englishes in the Writing Classroom? Probing the Culture of Literacy." Alt Dis: Alternatives Discourses and the Academy. Ed. Christopher Schroeder, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 126-138.

Elbow, Peter. Voice and Writing. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1994.

Elbow, Peter. "What Do We Mean When We Talk about Voice in Texts?" Voices on Voice: Definitions, Perspectives, Inquiry. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994. 1-35.

Elbow, Peter. What Is English? New York: Modern Language Association; Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1990.

Elbow, Peter. "Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: A Utopian View." 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. 83-100.

Elbow, Peter. "Writing Assessment: Do It Better, Do It Less." Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies and Practices. Ed. Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri. Modern Language Association, 1996. 120-34.

Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. New York: Oxford UP, 1981.

Elbow, Peter. Writing without Teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.

Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.

Flynn, Elizabeth A. "Feminist Theories/Feminist Composition." College English 57.2 (February 1995): 201-212.

Gardiner, Ellen. "Peter Elbow's Rhetoric of Reading." Rhetoric Review 13.2 (Spring 1995): 321-30.

Gerald, Amy Spangler. "An Uneasy Relationship: Feminist Composition and Peter Elbow." Composition Studies 31.2 (Fall 2003): 73-90.

Hatlen, Burton. "Old Wine in New Bottles: A Dialectical Encounter Between the Old Rhetoric and the New." Only Connect: Uniting Reading and Writing. Ed. Thomas Newkirk. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1986. 59-86.

Horner, Bruce. Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique. Ithaca, NY: SUNY P, 2000.

Jarratt, Susan C. "Feminism and Composition: The Case for Conflict." Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. Ed. Patricia Harkin and John Schilb. New York: MLA, 1991. 105-23.

Jones, Donald C. "John Dewey and Peter Elbow: A Pragmatist Revision of Social Theory and Practice." Rhetoric Review 21.3 (2002): 264-281.

Keil, Charles, John Trimbur, and Peter Elbow. "Making Choices about Voices." Composition Studies 30.1 (Spring 2002): 61-66.

Lunsford, Andrea A., and Lisa Ede. Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

Paley, Karen Surman. I-Writing: The Politics and Practice of Teaching of First-Person Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2001.

"The Selected Works of Peter Elbow." ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst. n.d.

Reynolds, Nedra, and Chaire Roche. "Peter Elbow." Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Michael G. Moran and Michelle Ballif, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 144-152.

Scorcinelli, Mary Dean, and Peter Elbow, eds. Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.

Trimbur, John. "Agency and the Death of the Author: A Partial Defense of Modernism." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.2 (2000): 283-298.

Yager, Kristi. "Romantic Resonances: Elbow's Writing Without Teachers." Composition Studies/Freshman English News (Spring 1996) 24.1-2.