Rhetoric Resources
- Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford Books, 2001.
- Brummett, Barry. Reading Rhetorical Theory. Wadsworth, 1999. [Good introductory text on rhetorical theory.]
- Corbett, Edward P.J. and Robert J Connors. “A Survey of Rhetoric.” Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 489-543.
- Covino, William and David A. Jolliffe. Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. Allynand Bacon, 1995. (especially their introduction, “What is Rhetoric”)
- Crowley, Sharon and Debra Hawhee. “Ancient Rhetorics: Their Differences, and the Differences They Make.” Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.
- Enos, Theresa (ed). Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
- González, Alberto and Dolores V. Tanno, Rhetoric in Intercultural Contexts. London: Sage, 1999.
- Hart, Roderick P. and Suzanne Daughton. Modern Rhetorical Criticism. 3rd ed. Allyn & Bacon, 2004. [A good introductory text to learn about rhetoric.]
- Heinrichs, Jay. Thank you for arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion. Three Rivers Press, 2007. [A more offbeat approach to learning about argumentation]
- Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Appeals in Modern Rhetoric. Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. [A good introductory text about modern rhetoric theory and practice.]
- Lunsford, Andrea A. and Cheryl Glenn. “Rhetorical Theory and the Teaching of Writing.” 1990. The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing. Eds. Cheryl Glenn, MelissaGoldthwaite, and Robert Connors. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.
General Resources
- Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques. A Handbook for College Teachers. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
- Atwill, Janet M., and Janice M. Lauer, eds. Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
- Bartholomae, David. “The Study of Error.” College Composition and Communication 31.3 (Oct. 1980): 253-69.
- Bettem, LaSere, and Diane Weltner Strommer. Teaching College Freshmen. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991.
- Bitzer, Lloyd. “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric. 1.1 (1968): 1-14.
- Bizzell, Patricia, Bruce Herzberg, and Nedra Reynolds. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.
- Booth, Wayne. The Vocation of a Teacher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Bromley, Hank, and Michael W. Apple. Education, Technology, Power: Educational Computing as a Social Practice. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
- Cherry, Roger. “Ethos vs. Persona: Self-Representation in Written Discourse.” Written Communication 15.3 (Jul. 1998): 384-410.
- Connors, Robert and Cheryl Glenn. The New St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing. 4thed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.
- Corbett, Edward P., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate. The Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Curzan, Anne, and Lisa Damour. First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student’s Guide to Teaching. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
- Davis, Barbara Gross. Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
- Ede, Lisa, and Andrea Lunsford. “Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy.” CCC 35 (1984): 155–171.
- Elbow, Peter. “Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshman and Colleagues.” College English 53.2 (Feb. 1991): 135-55.
- Garber, Marjorie B. Academic Instincts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Halasek, Kay, Tara Pauliny, Edgar Singleton, Rebecca Greenberg Taylor, Kathleen R. Wallace, and Matt Wanat. The Writer’s Companion: A Guide to First-year Writing. Needham Heights, MA: Pearson, 1999.
- Hartwell, Patrick, “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar,” in Connors and Glenn, eds. The New St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing. 404-428.
- Hawisher, Gail and Cynthia Selfe. Global Literacies and the World-Wide Web. New York:Routledge, 2000.
- Holberg, Jennifer, and Mary Tyler, eds. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
- hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York:Routledge, 1994.
- Hostetler, Karl D., R.M. Sawyer, Robert MacLaran, and Keith W. Prichard. The Art and Politics of College Teaching: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Professor. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.
- Hyman, Ronald T. Improving Discussion Leadership. New York: Columbia University Teachers College Press, 1980.
- Janangelo, Joseph, and Kristine Hansen. Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs. Portsmouth: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995.
- Johnson, Nan. “Ethos and the Aims of Rhetoric.” Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
- Kasteley, James. “Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion.” A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism. Ed. Walter Jost and Wendy Olmstead. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
- Killingsworth, Jimmie. “Rhetorical Appeals: A Revision.” Rhetoric Review 24.3 (2005): 249-63.
- Light, Richard J. Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Lindemann, Erika. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- McKeachie, Wilbert James. McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers. 10th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
- Murray, Donald. “Teach Writing as a Process…” Cross-Talk in Comp Theory. Ed. VictorVillanueva. Urbana: NCTE, 1997.
- Neff, Rose Ann and Maryellen Weimer. Classroom Communication: Collected Readings for Effective Discussion and Questioning. Madison: Magna, 1989.
- Nilson, Linda. Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors. Boston: Anker, 1998.
- Palmer, Parker J. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Finer Landscape of a Teacher’s Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
- Pemberton, Michael A. The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice. Stanford, CT: Ablex, 2000.
- Ponsot, Marie, and Rosemary Dean. Beat Not the Poor Desk. Boynton/Cook, 1989.
- Pytlik, Betty P., and Sarah Liggett. Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Programs, Practices. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Reiff, Mary Jo. Approached to Audience: The Major Perspectives. Chicago: Parlay, 2004.
- Rodrigues, Dawn. The Research Paper and the World Wide Web. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.
- Sellnow, Deanna. The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts. Sage, 2009.
- Sommers, Nancy. “Responding to Student Writing.” The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching
- Writing. 5th ed. Eds. Cheryl Glenn, Melissa Goldthwaite, and Robert Connors. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.
- Shaughnessy, Mina P. Error and Expectations. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1979.
- Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
- Vatz, Richard. “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 6.3: 154-61.
- Walker, Jeffrey. “A Body of Persuasion: The Enthymeme.” College English 56.1 (Jan. 1994): 46-65.
- Women’s Needs Assessment Study Group. Final Report. Stanford: Dean of Student Affairs Office, 1992
Readings on Peer Review Practices
- Beaudin, Andrea L., Steven J. Corbett, Ilene W. Crawford. Peer Pressure, Peer Power:
- Toward Systematic Collaborative Peer Review in the Composition and Writing Across the Curriculum Classroom. <http://galleryofwriting.org/writing/585497>
- Belcher, Lynn. “Peer Review and Response: A Failure of the Process Paradigm as Viewed from the Trenches.” Reforming College Composition: Writing the Wrongs. Eds. Ray Wallace, Alan Jackson, and Lewis Wallace. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2000. 99-111. Print.
- Bishop, Wendy. “Helping Peer Writing Groups Succeed.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 15 (1988): 120-25. Print.
- Corbett, Steven J. “The Give and Take of Tutoring On Location: Peer Power and Authority in Classroom-Based Writing Tutoring.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 4.2 (Spring 2007): n. pag. Web. 7 August 2009.
- Corbett, Steven J., and Juan C. Guerra. “Collaboration and Play in the Writing Classroom.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9.4 (Winter 2005): 106-11. Print.
- George, Diana. “Working with Peer Groups in the Composition Classroom.” College Composition and Communication 35.3 (1984): 320-26. Print.
- Grimm, Nancy. “Improving Students’ Responses to Their Peers’ Essays.” College Composition and Communication 37.1 (1986): 91-94. Print.
- Harris, Muriel. “Collaboration Is Not Collaboration Is Not Collaboration: Writing Center vs. Peer-Response Groups.” College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 369-83. Print.
- Holt, Mara. “The Value of Written Peer Criticism.” College Composition and Communication. 44 3.3 (1992): 348-92. Print.
- Moss, Beverly J., Nels P. Highberg, and Melissa Nicolas, eds. Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print.
- Newkirk, Thomas. “Direction and Misdirection in Peer Response.” College Composition and Communication. 35.3 (1984): 301-11. Print.
- Reid, Shelley. "Shelley's (Quick) Guide for Writing Instructors: Full-Circle Peer Review." Website. <http://mason.gmu.edu/~ereid1/teachers/tchguidepeerrev.htm>
- Spear, Karen. Sharing Writing: Peer Response Groups in English Classes. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1988. Print.
Readings on Writing Effective Assignment Prompts
- Brossell, Gordon C, and Barbara Hoetker Ash. "An Experiment with the Wording of Essay Topics." CCC 35 (December 1984): 423-25.
- Gardner, Traci. Designing Writing Assignments. NCTE, 2008.
- ---. "Ten Tips for Designing Writing Assignments." NCTE Web March 27, 2001. Re-Posted on Traci's Lists of Ten. June 12, 2005.
- Harris, Mickey & Mary Alm. "Sure fire tips leading to bad writing assignments." Purdue Writing Lab. (Handout)
- Hoetker, James, and Gordon Brossell. "The Effects of Systematic Variations in Essay Topics on the Writing Performance of College Freshmen." CCC 40.4 (1989): 414-421.
- Murphy, Sandy and Leo Ruth. Designing Writing Tasks for the Assessment of Writing.Ablex Publishing, 1988.
- Ruth, Leo, and Sandra Murphy. "Designing Topics for Writing Assessments: Problems of Meaning." CCC 35 (December 1984): 410-42.
- White, Edward M. Assigning, Responding, Evaluating: A Writing Teacher's Guide. Bedford, 2006.
Teaching Students with Disabilities
- Disability Rhetoric, "a website for, and about, people studying, teaching, and researching at the intersection of disability studies and rhetoric/composition," produced by the Disability Studies Special Interest Group at CCCC.
- Corrigan, John R. “Teaching Writing to Dyslexic Students: A Guide for the Composition Instructor.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 24.3 (Oct. 1997): 205-11.
- Livingston, Sue. “Promising Practice: Teaching Developmental Writing to Post-Secondary Students Who Are Deaf.” Journal of Post-Secondary Education and Disability 12.2 (Fall 1996): 43-44.
- Summer, Caroline. “Careless Errors: Teaching Writing to Post-Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities or Attention Deficit Disorder.” ERIC ED443126, 1997.
Selected Handbooks
- The St. Martin’s Handbook
- The Everyday Writer
- The Bedford Handbook
- The New Century Handbook
Selected Rhetorics
- Covino, The Elements of Persuasion
- Graff and Graff, They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing
- Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz, Everything’s an Argument
- Corbett and Eberly, The Elements of Reasoning
- Rosenwasser and Stephen, Writing Analytically
- Alfano and O’Brien, Envision in Depth: Reading, Writing, and Researching Arguments
Websites
- Conference on College Composition and Communication. http://www.ncte.org/cccc
- The Council of Writing Program Administrators. http://wpacouncil.org/
- National Council of Teachers of English. http://www.ncte.org
- Modern Languages Association. http://www.mla.org
- University Faculty Handbookhttp://www.stanford.edu/dept/provost/faculty/policies/handbook
- Tomorrow’s Professor. http://tomprof.stanford.edu
- Program in Writing and Rhetoric. http://pwr.stanford.edu
- Hume Writing Center. http://hume.stanford.edu