Living Rhetoric and Composition: Stories of the Discipline

by Duane H. Roen (Editor), Stuart C. Brown (Editor), Theresa Jarnagi Enos (Editor)

Overview

This collection--of the stories of scholars who have found a lifelong commitment to the teaching of writing--includes the professional histories of 19 rhetoricians and compositionists who explain how they came to fall in love with the written word and with teaching. Their stories are filled with personal anecdotes--some funny, some touching, some m

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136773648
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Duane H. Roen, Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Jarnagi Enos

Table of Contents

Contents: A.A. Lunsford, Foreword. D. Roen, S. Brown, T. Enos, Preface: Scholar/Teacher/Story Teller. E.P.J. Corbett, How I Became a Teacher of Composition. J. Lauer, Getting to Know Rhetorica. C. Bazerman, Looking at Writing; Writing What I See. W. Bishop, Heart of Gold. R.M. Coe, The Zen of Writing as Social/Symbolic Action. W.A. Covino, Truth or Consequences. F.J. D'Angelo, In Search of the American Dream. R.L. Enos, The Curious Case of Harry Caplan's Hat, or, How I Fell in Love With Rhetoric. T. Enos, Road Rhetoric--Recollecting, Recomposing, Remaneuvering. R. Fulkerson, How Way Leads on to Way. J.L. Kinneavy, A Backward Look at 55 Years of Teaching Writing: 1941-1996. R. Lloyd-Jones, Doing as One Likes. D.H. Roen, The Education of a Wisconsin Farm Boy. J. Trimbur, Close Reading: Accounting for My Life Teaching Writing. V.J. Vitanza, Love, Lust, Rhetorics (From Double Binds to Intensities). K.E. Welch, Technology/Writing/Identity in Composition and Rhetoric Studies: Working in the Indicative Mood. E.M. White, On Being a Writer, Being a Teacher of Writing. W.B. Horner, The Long Look Back. S.C. Brown, Have Rhetoric, Will Travel. J.J. Royster, Afterword. Appendix: Annotated Bibliography: A Guide to Professional Development.

Editorial Reviews

"...the nineteen narratives collected in this volume give us the professional-and often intensely personal-life of the discipline as told from the first-person perspective of some of its most prominent scholars...all demand to be read, not only for what they say about what it means to 'make it' in this field, but also for how such stories go on making and remaking the field through the act of their telling."
—Composition Studies

"I just finished reading Living Rhetoric and Composition in one day...I could not put the book down. I read the whole thing, cover to cover, at one sitting....To my knowledge, there is nothing like this in the discipline....The contributors describe moments in which they were forever changed. I believe that many readers will be, as I was, forever changed by reading these stories."
—Rebecca Moore Howard
Texas Christian University

"I found this book intriguing, and more important, a challenge—not to what I think but to how I behave.... The opportunity to meet these men and women over coffee, so to speak, is a most notable feature that I find remarkably appealing."
—Jane F. Dugan
Cleveland State University

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