History, Reflection, and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition 1963-1983

by Mary Rosner (Editor), Beth Boehm (Editor), Debra Journet (Editor)

Overview

On October 9-12, 1996, over 400 scholars, researchers, and teachers gathered at the University of Louisville for the first Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. History, Reflection, and Narrative combines oral histories and reflections collected from the featured speakers at the Conference-scholars, teachers, and researchers whose work has been among the most influential in composition's development-with critical perspectives on the period from 1963 to 1983 by another generation of scholars, many of whom will play an important role in defining composition's future. This book offers an important contribution to our ongoing understanding of how composition came to be the profession it is, how the present builds on the past, and how the present may challenge the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567503982
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/21/1999
Series:	Perspectives on Writing Series: Theory, Research, Practice , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

MARY ROSNER is Associate Professor of English, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, rhetoric, and literature. Her current interests are interdiciplinary: feminist readings of science, Victorian science and fiction, and the making of knowledge in composition theory.

BETH BOEHM is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she also directs graduate studies in English. She teaches and writes about British Literature, Rhetoric, and Narrative Threory.

DEBRA JOURNET is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Louisville. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of science and has appeared in such journals as Written Communication, Social Epistemology, Mosaic, and Technical Communication Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Debra Journet, Beth Boehm, and Mary Rosner
PART I. HISTORY AND THE MAKING OF HISTORIES
Composition History and Disciplinarity, Robert J. Connors
Veterans' Stories on the Porch, Lester Faigley
Paths Not Taken: Recovering History as Alternative Future, Louise W. Phelps
Watson Conference Oral History #1: Research Forums and Agendas in Composition Studies, Carol Berkenkotter, Lester Faigley, Richard Larson, and Stephen Witte
PART II. AGENDAS IN TEACHING AND IN RESEARCH
Composition Research Agendas in the 1960s and 1970s, Richard Lloyd-Jones
Early Work on Composing: Lessons and Illuminations, Sondra Perl
The Expressivist Menace, James T. Zebroski
A Brief History of Writing Assessment in the Late Twentieth Century: The Writer Comes Center Stage, Kathleen Blake Yancey
Watson Conference Oral History #2: Process Theory and the Shape of Composition Studies, Deborah Brandt, Janet Emig, and Sondra Perl
PART III. INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES AND DISCIPLINARY NARRATIVES
Rereading Feminism's Absence and Presence in Composition, Kathleen A. Boardman and Joy Ritchie
Is There Still a Place for Rhetorical History in Composition Studies? Gerald P. Mulderig
The Developing Discipline of Composition: From Text Linguistics to Genre Theory, Amy J. Devitt
Two Disciplinary Narratives for Non-Standard English in the Classroom: Citation Histories of Shaughnessy's Errors and Expectations and Smitherman's Talkin' and Testifyin', Shirley K. Rose
Watson Conference Oral History #3: The Breadth of Composition Studies: Professionalization and Interdisciplinary, Joseph Comprone, Lisa Ede, Peter Elbow, Janice Lauer, Andrea Lunsford, and Richard Young
Watson Conference Oral History #4: Classical Rhetoric in the Present and Future of Composition Studies, Edward P.J. Corbett, Frank D'Angelo, Winifred Horner, James Kinneavy, and C. Jan Swearingen
PART IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROFESSION
Professionalizing Politics, Richard Ohmann
Evocative Gestures in CCCC Chairs' Addresses, Ellen L. Barton. Whispers from the Margin: A Class-based Interpretation of the Conflict Between High School and College Writing Teachers, Irvin Peckham
Professing Rhetoric and Composition: A Personal Odyssey, Frank J. D'Angelo
Watson Conference Oral History #5: Discourse and Politics in Composition Studies, David Bartholomae, Pat Bizzell, Patty Harkin, and Richard Ohmann
PART V. FUTURE PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
Rethinking Research on Composing: Arguments for a New Research Agenda, Lee Odell and Christina Lynn Prell
Intellectual-Bureaucrats: The Future of Employment in the Twilight of the Professions, Richard E. Miller
Watson Conference Oral History #6: Working Inside and Outside Composition Studies, Charles Bazerman, Charles Cooper, Richard Lloyd-Jones, and Lee Odell
Author Index
Subject Index