Social Science: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric

Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University

I also use CiteULike and del.icio.us for bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Also check CompPile and the MLA International Bibliography.

A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.

Please email suggestions, corrections, or additions.

Last updated 11 August 2009

Anderson, Jon W. "Poetics and Politics in Ethnographic Texts: A View from the Colonial Ethnography of Afghanistan." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 91-116.

Anderson, Leon. "Teaching Writing in Sociology: A Social Constructionist Approach." Teaching Sociology 18 (1991): 243-248.

Baltensperger, Bradley H. "Journals in Economic Geography." The Journal Book. Ed. Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1987. 387-90.

Bassett, John E. "Confronting Change: English as a Social Science?" College English 57.3 (March 1995): 319-33.

Bazerman, Charles. "Codifying the Social Scientific Style: The APA Publication Manual as Behaviorist Rhetoric." The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship in Public Affairs. Eds. John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, and Donald N. McCloskey. Madison: U Wisconsin P., 1987. 125-144.

Bazerman, Charles. "The Interpretation of Disciplinary Writing." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 31-8.

Becker, Howard S. Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1986.

Botein, Stephen, et al., eds. Experiments in History Teaching. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U, Danforth Ctr, 1977.

Brodsky, David, and Eileen Meagher. "Journals and Political Science." The Journal Book. Ed. Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1987. 375-86.

Brown, Richard Harvey, ed. Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992.

Brown, Richard Harvey. "From Suspicion to Affirmation: Post-Modernism and the Challenges of Rhetorical Analysis." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 219-27.

Brown, Richard Harvey. "Poetics, Politics, and Truth: An Invitation to Rhetorical Analysis." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 3-8.

Brown, Richard Harvey, ed. Postmodern Representations: Truth, Power, and Mimesis in the Human Sciences and Public Culture. Champaign: U Illinois P, 1995.

Brown, Richard Harvey. SA Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989.

Brummett, Barry. "Rhetorical Theory as Heuristic and Moral: A Pedagogical Justification." Communication Education 33 (1984): 97-107. Rpt. Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. Ed. William A. Covino and David A. Jolliffe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. 651-63.

Burke, Kenneth. "Twelve Propositions by Kenneth Burke on the Relation between Economics and Psychology." Science and Society 2 (1938): 242-52.

Chalmers, Alan. Science and Its Fabrication. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1990.

Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. 1988. (Chapter 1, "On Ethnographic Authority.")

Coker, Francis H. "Writing to Learn in Upper-Division Sociology Courses: Two Case Studies." Teaching Sociology 18 (1990): 218-22.

Coulter, Jeff. The Social Construction of Mind: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Linguistic Philosophy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman, 1979.

Cozzens, Susan. "Comparing the Sciences: Citation Context Analysis of Papers from Neuropharmocology and the Sociology of Science." Social Studies of Science 15 (1985): 127-153.

Cuba, Lee. A Short Guide to Writing about Social Science 3rd ed. New York: Longman, 1997.

Daemmrich, Ingrid. "A Bridge to Academic Discourse: Social Science Research Strategies in the Freshman Composition Course." College Composition and Communication 40.3 (October 1989): 343-348.

Day, Susan. "Producing Better Writers in Sociology Classes: A Test of the Writing Across the Curriculum Approach." Teaching Sociology 17 (1989): 458-64.

Denuvo, RenŽe. "No Anthro-Apologies, or Der(r)idaing a Discipline." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 39-52.

Dunlap, Louise. "Advocacy and Neutrality: A Contradiction in the Discourse of Urban Planners." Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. Ed. Anne Herrington and Charles Moran. New York: Modern Language Association, 1992. 213-30.

Durst, Russel K. "Coming to Grips with Theory: College Students' Use of Theoretical Explanation in Writing About History." Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 1.1 (January 1994): 72-87.

Enders, Walter, and Gary A. Hoover. "Whose Line Is It? A Survey of Plagiarism in the Economics Profession." Working paper 03-10-02, Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies. University of Alabama. October 2003. 21 Dec. 2004 .

Estus, Charles. "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Community Studies." History Teacher 13 (November 1979): 37-48.

Faigley, Lester, and Kristine Hanson. "Learning to Write in the Social Sciences." College Composition and Communication 36 (May 1985): 140-9.

Fulwiler, Toby. Teaching with Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1987. Chapter 8, "Writing and Testing."

Gardner, Susan, and Toby Fulwiler, eds. The Journal Book for Teachers in Technical and Professional Programs. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1998.

Geertz, Clifford. Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 1988.

Greco, J. "Teaching Intermediate Micro-economics by Adopting a Writing Strategy." Journal of Business Education 59 (March 1984): 254-6.

Greene, Stuart. "The Role of Task in the Development of Academic Thinking through Reading and Writing in a College History Course." Research in the Teaching of English 27.1 (February 1993): 46-75.

Gusfield, Joseph R. "Listening for the Silences: The Rhetorics of the Research Field." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 117-34.

Hansen, Kristine. "Rhetoric and Epistemology in the Social Sciences: A Contrast of Two Representative Texts." Writing in Academic Disciplines. Vol. 2 of Advances in Writing Research. Ed. David Jolliffe. Norwood, NJ, 1988. 167-210.

Henderson, Willie, Tony Dudley-Evans, and Roger Backhouse. Economics and Language. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Henry, Louis H. "Clustering: Writing (and Learning) about Economics." College Teaching 34 (1986): 89-93.

Herrington, Anne J. "Composing One's Self in a Discipline: Students' and Teachers' Negotiations." Constructing Rhetorical Education. Ed. Marie Secor and Davida Charney. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. 91-115.

Herrington, Anne J., and Deborah Cadman. "Peer Review and Revising in an Anthropology Course: Lessons for Learning." College Composition and Communication 42.2 (May 1991): 184-199.

Herzfeld, Michael. "Textual Form and Social Formation in Evans-Pritchard and Levi-Strauss." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 53-72.

Hess, David J. "Teaching Ethnographic Writing: A Review Essay." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 20 (1989): 163-76.

Jenks, Chris. "Durkheim's Double Vision." Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Vision. Ed. Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell. New York: Routledge, 1998. 74-96.

Klein, Julie Thompson. "Text/Context: The Rhetoric of the Social Sciences." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 9-30.

Leary, David E. "Communication, Persuasion, and the Establishment of Academic Disciplines: The Case of American Psychology." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 73-90.

Lorence, J.L. "The Critical Analysis of Documentary Evidence: Basic Skills in the History Classroom." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 8.2 (1983): 77-84.

Marsella, Joy, Thomas L. Hilgers, and Clemence McLaren. "How Students Handle Writing Assignments: A Study of Eighteen Responses in Six Disciplines." Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. Ed. Anne Herrington and Charles Moran. New York: Modern Language Association, 1992. 174-88.

McCloskey, Donald N. "The Literary Character of Economics." Daedalus 113 (Summer 1984): 97-119.

McCloskey, Donald N. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Moore, Henrietta. "Master Narratives: Anthropology and Writing." What Is an Author? Ed. Maurice Birotti and Nicola Miller. New York: Manchester UP, 1993. 191-213.

Mulholland, Bernadette Marie. "It's Not Just the Writing." The Journal Book. Ed. Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1987. 227-38.

Newell, George E., and Peter Winograd. "Writing about and Learning from History Texts: The Effects of Task and Academic Ability." Research in the Teaching of English 29.2 (May 1995): 133-63.

Nightingale, Peggy. "Speaking of Student Writing......" Journal of Geography in Higher Education 15 (1991): 3-13.

Officer, et al. So You have to Write an Economics Term Paper.

Pearce, W. Barnett, and Victoria Chen. "Ethnography as Sermonic: The Rhetorics of Clifford Geertz and James Clifford." Rhetoric in the Human Sciences. Ed. Herbert W. Simons. London: Sage, 1989. 119-32.

Pflanze, Otto. "Report of the Editor, American Historical Review: A Parting Word." American Historical Association. Program of the One Hundredth Annual Meeting. 27-30 December, 1985.

Pittendrign, Adele S. "A Model for Teaching Writing in Large Introductory Political Science Classes." Political Science Teacher 2 (1991): 5-10.

Popper, K. R. "The Logic of the Social Sciences." The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology. Ed. T.W. Adorno. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1976. 87-104.

Prior, Paul. "Girl Talk Tales, Causal Models, and the Dissertation: Exploring the Topical Contours of Context in Sociology Talk and Text." Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 1.1 (January 1994): 5-34.

Roberts, R.H., and J.M.M. Good, eds. The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences. London: Duckworth, 1993. P301 .R347 1993

Schall, James. "On the Teaching of Political Philosophy." Perspectives on Political Science 20 (1990): 353-58.

Shapiro, Michael J. The Politics of Representation: Writing Practices in Biography, Photography, and Policy Analysis. Minneapolis: U of Wisconsin P, 1989.

Sherman, Sarah W. "Inventing an Elephant: History as Composition." Only Connect: Uniting Reading and Writing. Ed. Thomas Newkirk. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1986. 211-26.

Simon, Linda. "De-Coding Writing Assignments." History Teacher 24 (1991): 149-155.

Simon, Linda. "The Papers We Want to Read." Social Studies 81(1990): 37-39.

Simons, Herbert W. Rhetoric in the Human Sciences. London: Sage, 1989. Articles provide concrete anlyses that help reveal the mechanisms of specialized writing techniques or the character of writing in particular domains.

Simons, Herbert W. The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1990.

Smagorinsky, Peter. "The Method Section as Conceptual Epicenter in Constructing Social Science Research Reports." Written Communication 25.3 (2008): 389-411.

Soliday, Mary. "Reading Student Writing with Anthropologists: Stance and Judgment in College Writing." College Composition and Communication 56.1 (Sept. 2004): 72-93.

Steffens, Henry. "Designing History Writing Assignments for Student Success." Social Studies 80 (1989): 59-63.

Steffens, Henry. "Helping Students Improve Their Own Writing: The Self-Conference Sheet." History Teacher 24 (1991): 239-241.

Steffens, Henry. "Journals in the Teaching of History." The Journal Book. Ed. Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1987. 219-26.

Steffens, Henry. "Using Informal Writing in Large History Classes: Helping Students to Find Interest and Meaning in History." Social Studies 82 (1991): 107-09.

Stoddart, Kenneth. "Writing Sociologically: A Note on Teaching the Construction of a Qualitative Report." Teaching Sociology 19 (1991): 243-48.

Summa, Hikka. "The Rhetoric of Efficiency: Applied Social Science as Depoliticization." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 135-54.

Thieman, Gayle Y. "Using Fictional Journals to Study Underrepresented Groups in History." Social Education 56 (1992): 185-186.

Voss, James F., et al. "Problem-Solving and Skill in the Social Sciences." The Psychology of Learning and Motivation. Vol. 17. Ed. G.H. Bower. Academic P, 1983. 165-213.

White, Hayden. "The Real, the True, and the Figurative in the Human Sciences." Profession (1986): 15-17.

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