1. Recent history of rhetorical education
2. Current-traditionalist theories
3. Process theories
4. Cognitivist theories
5. Social constructionist theories
6. Expressivist theories
7. Feminist theories
8. Postmodern theories
Brody, Miriam. Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition. Southern Illinois UP, 1993. PE1404 .B74 1993
Lunsford, Andrea A. "On Reclaiming Rhetorica." Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 1995. 3-8.
Mulderig, Gerald. "Gertrude Buck's Rhetorical Theory and Modern Composition Teaching." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 14 (1984): 96-104.
Schultz, Lucille M. "Elaborating Our History: A Look at Mid-19th Century First Books of Composition." College Composition and Communication 45.1 (February 1994): 10-30.
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Varnum, Robin. "The History of Composition: Reclaiming Our Lost Generations." Journal of Advanced Composition 12.1 (Winter 1992): 39-56.
Woods, Marjorie Curry. "Among Men--Not Boys: Histories of Rhetoric and the Exclusion of Pedagogy." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 22.1 (Winter 1992): 18-26.
Wozniak, John. English Composition in Eastern Colleges, 1850-1940. Washington: UP of America, 1978.
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Hairston, Maxine. "Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections." College Composition and Communication 36 (1985): 77-8.
Russell, David R. "Vygotsky, Dewey, and Externalism: Beyond the Student/Discipline Dichotomy." Journal of Advanced Composition 13.1 (Winter 1993): 173-98.
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Carroll, Joyce Armstrong. "Process into Product: Teacher Awareness of the Writing Process Affects Students' Written Products." New Directions in Composition Research. Ed. Richard Beach and Lillian S. Bridwell. New York: Guilford, 1984: 315-33.
Faigley, Lester. "Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal." College English 48 (1986): 527-42.
Gebhardt, Richard C. "Initial Plans and Spontaneous Composition: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of the Writing Process." College English 44 (1982): 620-7.
Hairston, Maxine. "Different Products, Different Processes: A Theory About Writing." College Composition and Communication 37 (1986): 442-52.
Hillocks, George, Jr. "Inquiry and the Composing Process: Theory and Research." College English 44 (1982): 659-73.
Myers, Miles. A Model for the Composing Process. Berkeley: Bay Area Writing Project, U of California, 1980.
Reither, James A. "Writing and Knowing: Toward Redefining the Writing Process." College English 47.6 (October 1985): 620-628.
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Dinitz, Sue, and Jean Kiedaisch. "Persuasion from a Eighteen-Year-Old's Perspective: Perry and Piaget." Journal of Teaching Writing 9.2 (Fall/Winter 1990): 209-222.
Flower, Linda, et al. "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing." College Composition and Communication 32 (1981): 365-87.
Jacobs, Suzanne, and Adela Karliner. "Helping Writers to Think: The Effect of Speech Roles in Individual Conferences on the Quality of Thought in Student Writing." College English 38 (1977): 489-505.
Krupa, G. "Perry's Model of Development and the Teaching of Freshman Writing." Freshman English News 11 (1982): 17-20.
Lunsford, Andrea A. "Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer." College English 41 (1979): 38-46.
MacDonald, Susan Peck. "Problem Definition in Academic Writing." College English 49 (1987): 315-331.
Odell, Lee. "Piaget, Problem-Solving, and Freshman Composition." College Composition and Communication 24 (1973): 36-42.
Rose, Mike. "Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism." College Composition and Communication 39 (1988): 267-302.
Spear, Karen I. "Promoting Cognitive Development in the Writing Center." Writing Centers: Theory and Administration. Ed. Gary A. Olson. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1984. 62-76.
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Bizzell, Patricia. "Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing." Pre/Text 3 (1982): 213-44.
Bruffee, Kenneth A. "Peer Tutoring and the 'Conversation of Mankind.' Writing Centers: Theory and Administration. Ed. Gary A. Olson. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1984. 3-15.
Ede, Lisa. "Writing as a Social Process: A Theoretical Foundation for Writing Centers?" The Writing Center Journal 9, No. 2 (1989): 3-14.
Kent, Thomas. "On the Very Idea of a Discourse Community." College Composition and Communication 42.4 (December 1991): 425-45.
Murphy, Christina. "The Writing Center and Social Constructionist Theory." Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center. Ed. Joan A. Mullin and Ray Wallace. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994. 25-38.
Rafoth, Bennett A. "Discourse Community: Where Writers, Readers, and Texts Come Together." The Social Construction of Written Communication. Ed. Bennett A. Rafoth and Donald L. Rubin. Norwood NJ: Ablex, 1988: 131-46.
Rubin, Donald L. "Four Dimensions of Social Construction in Written Communication." The Social Construction of Written Communication. Ed. Bennett A. Rafoth and Donald L. Rubin. Norwood NJ: Ablex, 1988: 1-33.
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Elbow, Peter. Voice and Writing. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1994.
Fishman, Stephen, and Lucille McCarthy. "Is Expressivism Dead?" College English 54.6 (October 1992): 647-61.
Harris, Jeanette. Expressive Discourse. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist UP, 1990.
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Flynn, Elizabeth A. "Feminist Theories/Feminist Composition." College English 57.2 (February 1995): 201-212.
Frey, Olivia. "Beyond Literary Darwinism: Women's Voices and Critical Discourse." College English 52 (September 1990): 507-526.
Graves, Heather Brodie. "Regrinding the Lens of Gender: Problematizing 'Writing as a Woman.'" Written Communication 10.2 (April 1993): 139-63.
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.
Kaplan, Nancy, and Eva Farrell. "Weavers of Webs: A Portrait of Young Women on the Net." The Arachnet Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture 2.3 (1994). Send e-mail to LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU with the command: GET KAPLAN V2N3.
Lamb, Catherine E. "Beyond Argument in Feminist Composition." College Composition and Communication 42 (1991): 11-24.
Swearingen, C. Jan. "Women's Ways of Writing, or, Images, Self-Images, and Graven Images." College Composition and Communication 45.2 (May 1994): 251-7.
Worsham, Lynn. "Writing against Writing: The Predicament of Ecriture Feminine in Composition Studies." Harkin, Patricia, and John Schilb, eds. Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. New York: MLA, 1991: 82-104.
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Flannery, Kathryn T. "Composing and the Question of Agency." College English 53.6 (October 1991): 701-13.
Freisinger, Randall R. "Voicing the Self: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance in a Postmodern Age." Voices on Voice: Definitions, Perspectives, Inquiry. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey. Urbana: NCTE, 1994.
Joyner, Michael. "The Writing Center Conference and the Textuality of Power." The Writing Center Journal 12.1 (Fall 1991): 80-89.
Knoper, Randall. "Deconstruction, Process, Writing." Reclaiming Pedagogy: The Rhetoric of the Classroom. Ed. Patricia Donahue and Ellen Quandahl. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1989. 128-43.
Miller, J. Hillis. "Composition and Decomposition: Deconstruction and the Teaching of Writing." Composition and Literature. Ed. Winifred Horner. 38-56.
Nash, Thomas. "Derrida's 'Play' and Prewriting for the Laboratory." Writing Centers: Theory and Administration. Ed. Gary A. Olson. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1984. 182-97.
Schilb, John. "Cultural Studies, Postmodernism, and Composition." Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. Ed. Patricia Harkin and John Schilb. New York: MLA, 1991. 173-88.
Smit, David W. "Hall of Mirrors: Antifoundationalist Theory and the Teaching of Writing." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 15.1 (1995): 35-53.
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