Just as the majority of books about computer literacy deal more with technological issues than with literacy issues, most computer literacy programs overemphasize technical skills and fail to adequate
While there have been several studies of writing programs at larger, baccalaureate institutions, the community college classroom has often been overlooked. Authors Howard Tinberg and Jean-Paul Nadeau
Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to ch
This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers.We write and read as participants in a process through
The question of how students transfer knowledge is an important one, as it addresses the larger issue of the educational experience. In Agents of Integration: Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Ac
The act of inventing relates to the process of inquiry, to creativity, to poetic and aesthetic invention. Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other dis-cipl
Rousculp founded the Community Writing Center at Salt Lake Community College in 2001, and when she left 12 years later, she decided to write about her experience for the benefit of colleagues in rheto
“The mature writer is recognized ... by his ability to create a flow of sentences, a pattern of thought that is produced, one suspects, according to the principles of yet another kind of grammar—a gra
Lynch considers how the field of composition thinks about teaching and how it can reinvent the pedagogical part of its mission in the wake of the expanded agenda that is no longer focused on pedagogy,
Rural Literacies identifies the problems inherent in trying to understand rural literacy, addresses the lack of substantive research on literacy in rural areas, and reviews traditional misrepresentati
In this precise and provocative treatise, Julie Jung augments the understanding and teaching of revision by arguing that the process should entail changing attitudes rather than simply changing texts.
Noting that the field of composition studies is at a crossroads in an increasingly digital age, the authors argue that it has privileged text-based forms of writing over other types of composition and
In Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom, David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald point out the centrality of rhetoric in the academy, asserting the intimate connection between lang
