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January 02, 2005

Required texts

I ordered all these through the university bookstore:



  1. Certeau, Michel. The Writing of History. Trans. Tom Conley. New York: Columbia UP, 1988.
  2. Connors, Robert J. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy. Pittsburgh UP, 1997.
  3. White, Hayden. Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.


You'll have additional assigned readings, some available on the Web and others in PDF. There will be no charge for these readings, but it will be your responsibility to print them out and bring them to class. These will include


  1. Bloom, Lynn Z. "The Great Paradigm Shift and Its Legacy for the Twenty-First Century." 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. 31-48.
  2. Gilyard, Keith. "African American Contributions to Composition Studies." College Composition and Communication 50.4 (June 1999): 626-644.
  3. Royster, Jacqueline Jones, and Jean C. Williams. "History in the Spaces Left: African American Presence and Narratives of Composition Studies." College Composition and Communication 50.4 (June 1999): 563-585.
  4. Smitherman, Geneva. "The Historical Struggle for Language Rights in CCCC." Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice. Ed. Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. 7-39.
  5. Strickland, Donna. "Taking Dictation: The Emergence of Writing Programs and the Cultural Contradictions of Composition Teaching." College English 63.4 (March 2001): 457-479.
  6. Yancey, Kathleen Blake. "A Brief History of Writing Assessment in the Late Twentieth Century: The Writer Comes Center Stage." History, Reflection, and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition 1963-1983. Eds. Mary Rosner, Beth Boehm, and Debra Journet. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1998. 115-128.

Posted by senioritis at January 2, 2005 10:30 AM

Comments

"There will be no charge for these readings, but it will be your responsibility to print them out and bring them to class."

Print them out from?

Posted by: Carolyn Ostrander at January 7, 2005 09:49 PM

From the PDFs I'll be sending you.

Posted by: senioritis at January 11, 2005 07:11 AM