Rhetorics of overcoming

Rhetorics of Overcoming addresses the in/accessibility of writing classroom and writing center practices for disabled and nondisabled student writers, exploring how rhetorics of overcoming—the idea that disabled students must overcome their disabilities in order to be successful—manifest in writi...

Rhetorics elsewhere and otherwise

Winner of the 2020 CCCC Outstanding Book Award (Edited Collection)The discipline of composition and rhetoric stands at a crossroad in its pedagogical, research, and public commitments. Decolonial ruptures in writing and rhetoric studies work to build new horizons, new histories, of local knowledg...

English studies reimagined

In this sequel to English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s), editor Bruce McComiskey and contributors from a range of disciplines propose seven principles to reimagine English studies for increased relevance in an increasingly diverse and globalized world.While social values outside o...

Rethinking reading in college

Rethinking Reading in College argues for more systematic attention to the role of reading comprehension in college, as a necessary step in addressing the inequities in student achievement that otherwise increase over time.Synthesizing theory from literacy scholars with strategies derived from cla...

Materiality and writing studies

Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators An expansive look at the discipline of writing studies, with a focus on serving and supporting first-year writing students and instructors at open access institutions.There is a huge gap between perceptions of t...

Public pedagogy in composition studies

How many of us have difficulty remembering specific moments of learning in classrooms but vividly recall gaining knowledge through experiences outside our college or university walls? In the long term, how distinctive and memorable are the courses that remain within traditional spaces and follow...

What works in writing instruction

What Works in Writing Instruction offers the best of what is currently known about effective writing instruction to help teachers help middle and high school students develop as writers."What works?"As teachers, it's a question we often ask ourselves about teaching writing, and it often summarize...

Black perspectives in writing program administration

Winner of the 2020 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA).This collection centers writing program administration (WPA) discourse as intersectional race work. In this historical moment in public discourse when race and racist logics are no longer sanitized in cod...

Cross-talk in comp theory

Cross-Talk in Comp Theory is a collection of pivotal texts that mark the rebirth of a field, composition studies, beginning with the rise of the process movement. It has been thrice revised to account for shortfalls and changing conversations. The second edition paid increased attention to the si...

Recollections from an uncommon time

A collection of essays and personal narratives about living, writing, teaching, and learning in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. These are real stories from the field of writing and rhetoric, as told by the stories of individuals working within it.This particular collection of essay...

Critical rural pedagogy

Sharon Mitchler argues for a reconfiguration of critical pedagogy to empower and engage American literature students in rural community colleges. She constructs a pedagogy that addresses the multiple positions of power and marginalization rural students occupy, often concurrently. Drawing on femi...

Dynamic activities for first-year composition

This collection of activities for the composition classroom includes dozens of practical, useful, successful, and accessible exercises that have been developed and implemented by writing instructors from all over the country. Editors Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad have assembled a collection o...

Teachers talking writing

Teachers Talking Writing (TTW) is a collection of conversations with real teachers with diverse backgrounds and experiences about the theory and practice of teaching writing in postsecondary contexts. This composition anthology focuses on practices and pedagogies in the 21st century. TTW is inter...

Transfer in an urban writing ecology