Kathleen Yancey's new book explores reflection as a promising body of practice and inquiry in the writing classroom. In a personable and eclectic style, Yancey develops a line of research based on concepts of philosopher ...

Adler-Kassner and O'Neill show writing faculty and administrators how to frame discussions of writing assessment so that they accurately represent research-based practices, and promote assessments that are valid, reliable, ...

In Noise from the Writing Center, Boquet develops a theory of ''noise'' and excess as an important element of difference between the pedagogy of writing centers and the academy in general. Addressing administrative issues, ...

Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the boundaries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center--that it is solely a comfortable, ...

Securing a Place for Reading in Composition addresses the dissonance between the need to prepare students to read, not just write, complex texts and the lack of recent scholarship on reading-writing connections. Author ...

Naming What We Know examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies using the lens of threshold concepts"--concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. The ...

Peter Elbow is one of those scholars who had such an impact on his field that by mid-career he had already attained icon status. As an early proponent of what became known as process theory, Elbow, with others working along ...

Genre across the Curriculum will function as a ''good'' textbook, one not for the student, but for the teacher, and one with an eye on the context of writing. Here you will find models of practice, descriptions written by ...