Beyond Postprocess offers a vigorous, provocative discussion of postprocess theory in its contemporary profile. Fueled by something like a fundamental refusal to see writing as self-evident, reducible, and easily explicable, ...

A critique of the composition field's engagement with education reform, particularly the practice of "reframing." Reframing is a pragmatic argument establishing or appealing to the professional authority of scholars in an ...

A multi-year project to develop a mechanical engineering writing curriculum that satisfied the cultural needs of both compositionists and engineers. Colleagues employed intercultural communication theory and an approach ...

Explores the role of writing teachers in counteracting the polarized "post-truth" of public argument. Writing teachers are uniquely positioned to address the crisis of public discourse because their work is tied to ethical ...

A multi-year ethnographic study of first-year writing programs in Lebanon and Washington State--respectively, a country where English isn't the language of instruction and a state in which English is dominant--to examine ...

Exploring the distinction between curriculum and pedagogy focused on curriculum and its importance in many contexts in which writing plays a role. Using a mixed-methods approach of quantitative, qualitative, textual, ...

Bridging the disciplinary divide between writing and literature and introducing the concept of "literary affordances"--A theory that addresses interpretation and use through understanding how a rhetor applies a text. A mix ...

As a discipline can rhetoric and composition continue its historical commitment to pedagogy without sacrificing equal attention to other areas, such as research and theory? Contributors address disagreements about what it ...

How core writing center pedagogies and institutional arrangements are complicated by the need to create intentional, targeted support for advanced graduate writers. Most writing center tutors are undergraduates, whose lack ...