Composition and Rhetoric Studies
The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing
Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication
Invisible Forces
Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.
Joan Didion
Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.
Bordered Writers
Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.
Reflecting Pool
Both an anthology and an informal textbook that features poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets.
Getting Personal
Addresses how digital forms of personal writing can be most effectively used by teachers, students, and other community members.
Peaceful Persuasion
Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.
Green Voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.
Creating Nonfiction
A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.
The Lure of Literacy
Examines proposals for freshman composition’s abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses.
The Other Side of Pedagogy
Delineates Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are, developmentally, and where they might go.
Letters to a Best Friend
A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.
Vernacular Insurrections
Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Coach
Twenty-five celebrated writers share the encouraging words and timeless wisdom of the coaches who influenced their lives.
Active Voices
Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
Sound-Bite Saboteurs
Argues that the reliance on sound bites in recent political discourse is harmful to the democratic process.
Making Poems
Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.
Composition and Copyright
Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.
Measured Meals
Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.
The Wound and the Witness
Explores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts.
Between Speaking and Silence
Explores the question of student silence from students’ perspectives and challenges the conventional wisdom about silent students.
The Passionate Empiricist
Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.
Non-discursive Rhetoric
Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.
Writing-Based Teaching
Offers candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges.