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Book Reviews
Browse by Issue (In order of appearance in issue):
- 36.1
- Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences, edited by Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard Haswell
- The Locations of Composition, edited by Christopher J. Keller and Christian R. Weisser
- Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America, by Mark Garrett Longaker
- Plagiarism: Alchemy and Remedy in Higher Education, by Bill Marsh
- The Writing Center Director's Resource Book, edited by Christina Murphy and Byron L. Stay
- Can It Really Be Taught? Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, edited by Kelly Ritter and Stephanie Vanderslice
- Whistlin' and Crowin' Women of Appalachia: Literary Practices Since College, by Katherine Kelleher Sohn
- Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing LIfe, by Chris Thaiss and Terry Myers Zawacki
- Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers, edited by Peter Vandenberg, Sue Hum, and Jennifer Clary-Lemon
- Identity Papers: LIteracy and Power in Higher Education, edited by Bronwyn T. Williams
- "What about Rose?": Using Teacher Research to Reverse School Failure, by Smokey Wilson
- 35.2
- Freedom’s Journal: The First African-American Newspaper, by Jacqueline Bacon
- College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction, by Anne Beaufort
- Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques, by Laura Hennessey DeSena
- Writing with Authority: Students’ Roles as Writers in Cross-National Perspective, by David Foster
- The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice, by Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, and Elizabeth H. Boquet
- Writing at the Center: Proceedings of the 2004 Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, edited by Jo Ann Griffin, Carol Mattingly, and Michele Eodice
- Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity, edited by Rona Kaufman and Jennifer Sinor
- African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Elaine B. Richardson and Ronald L. Jackson II
- 35.2 Online Exclusives
- 35.1
- Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training in the Next Wave of Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano
- Composition and/or Literature: The End(s) of Education, edited by Linda S. Bergmann and Edith M. Baker
- Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual, edited by Patricia Bizzell
- Technology and English Studies: Innovative Professional Paths, edited by James A. Inman and Beth L. Hewitt
- Punishing Schools: Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education by William Lyons and Julie Drew
- Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric by LuMing Mao
- The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land, edited by Paul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, and Xiaoye You
- Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum, edited by Susan H. McLeod and Margot Iris Soven
- Discord and Direction: The Postmodern Writing Program Administrator, edited by Sharon James McGee and Carolyn Handa
- Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness, by Krista Ratcliffe
- Research on Composition: Multiple Perspectives on Two Decades of Change, edited by Peter Smagorinsky
- Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship, by Morris Young
- 34.2
- Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism, by Sharon Crowley
- Sentimental Attachments: Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition, by Janet Carey Eldred
- On a Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America, by Norbert Elliott
- Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom, by Zan Meyer Gonçalves
- Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies, edited by Andrea Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane
- Writing Across Borders, directed by Wayne Robertson
- The Eloquence of Mary Astell, by Christine Mason Sutherland
- Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom, edited by Elizabeth Vander Lei and bonnie lenore kyburz
- 34.1
- Voice as Process, by Lizbeth A. Bryant
- Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States, by Jean Ferguson Carr, Stephen L. Carr, and Lucille Schultz
- Situation Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location, by Lisa Ede
- The Outcomes Book, edited by Susanmarie Harrington, Keith Rhodes, Ruth Overman Fischer, and Rita Malenczyk
- Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era, by James A. Inman
- Multiple Genres, Multiple Voices: Teaching Argument in Composition and Literature, by Cheryl L. Johnson and Jayne A. Moneysmith
- Coming to Terms: A Theory of Writing Assessment, by Patricia Lynne
- Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in English Composition, by Paula Mathieu
- The Profession of English in the Two-Year College, edited by Mark Reynolds and Sylvia Holladay-Hicks
- The Function of Theory in Composition, by Raúl Sánchez
- Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930, by Wendy B. Sharer
- Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse, by Candace Spigelman
- 34.1 Online Exclusives (in alphabetic order)
- The Hope and the Legacy: The Past, Present and Future of "Students' Right to Their Own Language," edited by Patrick Bruch and Richard Marback
- Writing Environments, edited by Sidney Dobrin and Christopher Kelly
- Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education, edited by Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva
- Genre Across the Curriculum, edited by Anne Herrington and Charles Moran
- Second Language Writing Research: Perspectives on the Process of Knowledge Construction, edited by Paul Kei Matsuda and Tony Silva
- Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency: from Manifesto to Modem, by Jacqueline Rhodes
- Self-Development and College Writing, by Nick Tingle
- 33.2
- Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to
Critical Praxis, edited by Stephen Gilbert Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2004. 352 pages. Reviewed by Susan V.
Wall.
- ESL
Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors, edited by Shanti Bruce
and Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2004. 192 pages. Reviewed
by Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar.
- Defining
Visual Rhetorics, by Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers. Mahwah: Lawrence
Erlbaum, 2004. 342 pages. Reviewed by Shane Borrowman.
- Invention
in Rhetoric and Composition, by Janice M. Lauer. West Lafayette: Parlor Press and
The WAC Clearinghouse, 2004. 276 pages. Reviewed by
Maureen Daly Goggin.
- Rhetoric
Before and Beyond the Greeks, edited by Carol S. Lipson and Roberta A.
Binkley. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 267 pages. Reviewed
by Teresa Grettano.
- City
Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices, edited by Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan.
Albany: State U of New York P, 2003. 248 pages. Reviewed
by James Guignard.
- Writing
Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom, edited by Beverly J. Moss, Nels P.
Highberg, and Melissa Nicholas. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. 264
pages. Reviewed
by Kurt Schick.
- Demythologizing
Language Difference in the Academy: Establishing Discipline-Based Writing
Programs, by Mark Waldo. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. 224
pages. Reviewed
by R. Mark Hall.
- 33.2 Online Exclusives (in alphabetic order)
- The Center Will Hold:
Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship, edited by Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead.
Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003. 225 pages. Reviewed by Dana Zaskoda.
- Electronic
Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options, edited by James A. Inman, Cheryl Reed, and Peter
Sands. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. 440 pages. Reviewed by Pavel Zemliansky.
- Historical Studies of
Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of
a Discipline, edited by Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo.
West Lafayette: Parlor Press, 2004. 316 pages. Reviewed by Andrea Deacon
Muldoon.
- Multiliteracies
for a Digital Age,
by Stuart A. Selber. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. 240
pages. Reviewed
by Kim Donehower.
- Response to Reform: Composition and the
Professionalization of Teaching by Margaret J. Marshall. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004. 197 pages.
Reviewed by Jami L. Carlacio.
- Rhetoric and Ethnicity, edited by Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley.
Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2004. 176 pages. Reviewed
by Allison Brimmer.
- Rhetorical Education in
America, edited by Cheryl Glenn,
Margaret M. Lyday, and Wendy B. Sharer. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 2004. 264 pages. Reviewed by Carol Lea Clark.
- Teaching Academic ESL
Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar, by Eli Hinkel. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2004. 368 pages. Reviewed by Amy Dayton.
- Writing
Genres, by Amy J.
Devitt. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Mary
Buchinger Bodwell.
- Writing New Media:
Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition, by Anne Frances Wysocki, Johndan Johnson-Eilola,
Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004.
276 pages. Reviewed by Wendy Warren
Austin.
- 33.1
- Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century, by Kurt Spellmeyer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 312 pages. Reviewed by Beth Brunk-Chavez.
- Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching, by Kristie S. Fleckenstein. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. Reviewed by Margaret M. Strain.
- Genre and the Invention of the Writer, by Anis Bawarshi. Logan: Utah State UP, 2003. 180 pages. Reviewed by Peter Clements.
- Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education, by Catherine Prendergast. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. 224 pages. Reviewed by Ronald L. Pitcock.
- The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education, by Mary Soliday. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. 240 pages. Reviewed by William DeGenaro.
- Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis, edited by Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 258 pages. Reviewed by Dion C. Cautrell.
- The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments, by Beverly A. Sauer. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. 376 pages. Reviewed by Michael J. Salvo and Julie Staggers.
- 33.1 Online Exclusives (in alphabetic order)
- Crossing the Curriculum: Multilingual Learners in College Classrooms, edited by Vivian Zamel and Ruth Spack. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. 240 pages. Reviewed by Mary M. Juzwik, Michigan State University.
- Genre in the Classroom: Multiple Perspectives, edited by Ann M. Johns. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. 352 pages. Reviewed by Janet S. Zepernick, York College of Pennsylvania.
- Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference, by Nedra Reynolds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. 224 pages. Reviewed by James Fredal, The Ohio State University.
- Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, by Karyn L. Hollis. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004. 192 pages. Reviewed by Wendy B. Sharer, East Carolina University.
- What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices, edited by Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. 376 pages. Reviewed by Elizabeth Weiser, The Ohio State University at Newark.
- Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction, by Michael Carter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. 320 pages. Reviewed by Thomas Allbaugh, Azusa Pacific University.
- Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations? : Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers Across the Curriculum, by Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2002. 238 pages. Reviewed by David H. Roberts, Albany State University
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32.2
- (First Person)2 : A Study of Co-Authoring in the Academy, by Kami Day and Michele Eodice. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001. 216 pages. Reviewed by Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Georgia State University.
- Talking, Sketching, Moving: Multiple Literacies in the Teaching of Writing, by Patricia A. Dunn. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2001. 192 pages. Reviewed by David Martins, California State University, Chico.
- Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies, edited by Andrea Greenbaum, with a foreword by Gary A. Olson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 198 pages. Reviewed by Donald N. S. Unger, University at Albany, SUNY.
- Opening Spaces: Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Theory in Composition, by Joe Marshall Hardin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 126 pages. Reviewed by Fiona Glade, California State University, Sacramento.
- Misunderstanding the Assignment: Teenage Students, College Writing, and the Pains of Growth, by Doug Hunt. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 192 pages. Reviewed by Jill Swiencicki, California State University, Chico.
- Tutoring Writing: A Practical Guide for Conferences, by Donald A. McAndrew and Thomas J. Reigstad. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2001. 160 pages. Reviewed by Rebecca G. Taylor, Gustavus Adolphus College.
- WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs, edited by Susan H. McLeod, Eric Miraglia, Margot Soven, and Christopher Thaiss. Urbana: NCTE Press, 2001. 345 pages. Reviewed by Linda S. Bergmann, Purdue University.
- Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Programs, Practices, edited by Betty P. Pytlik and Sarah Liggett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 352 pages. Reviewed by Kathleen J. Ryan, West Virginia University.
- Introducing English: Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition, by James F. Slevin. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 280 pages. Reviewed by Christopher Schroeder, Northeastern Illinois University.
- Teaching Writing Teachers: of High School English & First-Year Composition, by Robert Tremmel and William Broz. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 192 pages. Reviewed by Rich Rice, Texas Tech University.
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32.2 Online Exclusives (in alphabetic order)
- A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery, by Beth Daniell. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. 176 pages. Reviewed by Joe Wagner, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Critical Passages: Teaching the Transition to College Composition, by Kristin Dombek and Scott Herndon, with a foreword by David Bartholomae. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003. 144 pages. Reviewed by Carola Mattord, Georgia State University.
- Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice, edited by Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. 176 pages. Reviewed by Steve Hecox, New Mexico Highlands University.
- Literacy in the New Media Age, by Gunther Kress. London: Routledge, 2003. 186 pages. Reviewed by Paul J. Morris II, Pittsburg State University.
- Reading Student Writing: Confessions, Meditations, Rants, by Lad Tobin. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2004. 152 pages. Reviewed by Heidi Estrem, Eastern Michigan University.
- Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, edited by Gary A. Olson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. 288 pages. Reviewed by Lisa L. Coleman, Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
- A Rhetoric of Pleasure: Prose Style & Today’s Composition Classroom, by T. R. Johnson. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2003. 144 pages. Reviewed by Inez Schaechterle, Bowling Green State University.
- Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom, by Jeffrey Berman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. 320 pages. Reviewed by Linda E. Holt, Belmont University.
- What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing, by Bob Broad. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003. 180 pages. Reviewed by John Eliason, Philadelphia University
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