Exploring Composition Studies Sites, Issues, Perspectives

Name: Exploring Composition Studies Sites, Issues, Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780874218824

ISBN-10: 0874218829

ISBN-13: 9780874218824

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kelly Ritter, Paul Kei Matsuda

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Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda have created an essential introduction to the field of composition studies for graduate students and instructors new to the study of writing. The book offers a careful exploration of this diverse field, focusing specifically on scholarship of writing and composing. Within this territory, the authors draw the boundaries broadly, to include allied sites of research such as professional and technical writing, writing across the curriculum programs, writing centers, and writing program administration. Importantly, they represent composition as a dynamic, eclectic field, influenced by factors both within the academy and without. The editors and their sixteen…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 4/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Foreword: Defining Composition Studies … Again, and Again



Introduction: How Did We Get Here?




The State of the Field(S)



Creation Myths and Flash Points: Understanding Basic Writing through Conflicted Stories




Teaching Composition in the Multilingual World: Second Language Writing in Composition Studies




Remapping Professional Writing: Articulating the State of the Art and Composition Studies




Writing Center Scholarship: A "Big Cross-Disciplinary Tent"




WAC's Disappearing Act




Scholarly Positions in Writing Program Administration




Innovations, Advancements, and Methodologies



Reimagining the Nature of FYC Trends in Writing-about-Writing Pedagogies




Transfer, Portability, Generalization: (How) Does Composition Expertise "Carry"?




Writing Assessment in the Early Twenty-first Century: A Primer




Studying Literacy in Digital Contexts: Computers and Composition Studies




"What Goes On Here?": The Uses of Ethnography in Composition Studies




Archival Research in the Field of Rhetoric and Composition




Writing Pedagogy Education: Instructor Development in Composition Studies



Afterword: Redefining the Ineffable-Or, Creating Scholarly Presence and a Usable Future: An Editor's Perspective



Works Cited


Index


About the Authors