Arrangement and Organization: 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 16 February 2007

Brooke, Collin Gifford.  "Making Room, Writing Hypertext."  JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory 19.2 (Spring 1999):  253-268. 

Connors, Robert , and Cheryl Glenn.  The New St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing.  Boston:  Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. 

Crowley, Sharon.  The Methodical Memory:  Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

D'Angelo, Frank J.  "Tropics of Arrangement:  A Theory of Dispositio."  Journal of Advanced Composition 10.1 (1990):  101-109. 

Elbow, Peter. "The Music of Form: Rethinking Organization in Writing." College Composition and Communication 57.4 (June 2006).

Faigley, Lester, et al.  Assessing Writers' Knowledge and Processes of Composing.  Norwood, NJ:  Ablex, 1985. 

Gage, John T.  "Teaching the Enthymeme:  Invention and Arrangement."  Rhetoric Review 1 (1983):  38-50.

Haswell, Richard H.  "Change in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Writing Performance:  Quantified Findings."  ERIC:  1986.  ED 269 780. 

Haswell, Richard H.  "The Organization of Impromptu Essays."  College Composition and Communication 37 (1986):  402-15. 

Meyer, B.J.F.  The Organization of Prose and Its Effects on Memory.  Amsterdam:  North-Holland, 1975.

Murphy, Michael.  "Teaching 'Organization':  Transition Moments, Cueing Systems, and Modes of Coherence."  Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition.  Ed. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner. Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 2002.  269-288. 

Parker, Ian.  "Absolute Powerpoint."  The New Yorker (28 May 2001):  76-87. 

Podis, JoAnne M., and Leonard A. Podis.  "Identifying and Teaching Rhetorical Plans for Arrangement."  College Composition and Communication 41 (December 1990):  430-42.

Stewart, Donald C.  "Some Thoughts on Arrangement."  Journal of Advanced Composition 7 (1987):  92-100.