THE MAJOR IN WRITING & ADVANCED WRITING COURSES - A BIBLIOGRAPHY

CCCC Committee on the Major in Writing and Rhetoric

BOOKS

Adams, Katherine H. & John L. Adams. Eds. (1991). Teaching Advanced Composition. Portsmouth,

NH: Boynton/Cook.

Crowley, Sharon. (1998). Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. University

of Pittsburgh Press.

Franke, David, Alex Reid, and Anthony Di Renzo. Eds. (2010). Design Discourse: Composing and

Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing. WAC Clearinghouse / Parlor Press,

Giberson, Gregory A., Jim Nugent, & Lori Ostergaard. Eds. (2015). Writing Majors: Eighteen

Program Profiles. Logan: Utah State University Press.

Giberson, Greg A. & Thomas A. Moriarty. Eds. (2010) What We Are Becoming: Developments in

Undergraduate Writing Majors. Logan: Utah State University Press. 2010.

Olson, Gary A. & Julie Drew. Eds. (1996). Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition. Mahwah, NJ:

Hermagoras Press.

O’Neill, Peggy, Angela Crow, & Larry R. Burton. Editors.( 2002). A Field of Dreams: Independent

Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies. Logan: Utah State UP.

Shamoon, Linda K., Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, & Robert A. Schwegler. Eds. (2000).

Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

Boynton/Cook.

SPECIAL ISSUES

Composition Studies 35.1 (Spring 2007) Special Issue on the Writing Major

WEBSITES

Association of Undergraduate Rhetoric and Writing Studies Majors.

http://www.rhetoricandwritingundergraduatemajor.org (an affiliate of the Master’s Degree

Consortium Writing Studies Specialists. http://www.mdcwss.com).

Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee on the Major in Writing and

Rhetoric website. http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/majorrhetcomp

Gladstein, Jill, and Brandon Fralix. The National Census of Writing Database. 2015.

http://writingcensus.swarthmore.edu

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

Adams, Katherine H. “Bringing Rhetorical Theory into the Advanced Composition Class.” Rhetoric

Review 3 (1985): 184-189.

Balzhiser, Deborah, and Susan H. McLeod. “The Undergraduate Writing Major: What Is It? What

Should It Be?” College Composition and Communication 61.3 (2010): 415-433.

Bank, Stanley. “Composition Aims in Advanced Writing Courses.” College Composition and

Communication 15 (1964): 190-191.

Beck, James P. “‘Advanced Composition’ and Occasion-Sensitivity.’ Journal of Advanced

Composition 2 (1981): 79-88.

Behr, Robert. “Teaching Advanced Composition for Teachers.” College Composition and

Communication 13 (1962): 77-78.

Belcher, Diane D. “Peer vs. Teacher Response in the Advanced Composition Class.” Issues in Writing

2.2 (Spring/Summer 1990): 128-50.

Berke, Jacqueline. “Invitational Workshop on Advanced Composition.” College Composition and

Communication 18 (1965): 199-200.

Bloom, Lynn Z. “Creative Nonfiction, Is There Any Other Kind?” Teaching Advanced Composition.

Ed. Katherine H. Adams and John L. Adams. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991. 249-266.

Bloom, Lynn Z. “Diving into the Mainstream: Configurations of Advanced Composition.” Conference

on College Composition and Communication. New York, March 1984. ERIC, 1984. ED 243114.

Burke, Virginia M. “The Advanced Course in Expository Writing: Aims, Texts, Methods.” College

Composition and Communication 9 (1958): 165-167.

Christensen, Francis. “The Course in Advanced Composition for Teachers.” College Composition and

Communication 24 (1973): 163-170.

Clark, Wilma. “Writing for Publication in an Advanced Course for Undergraduates.” Journal of

Advanced Composition 3 (1982): 24-36.

Clary-Lemon, Jennifer. “The Hot Arctic: Writing Majors as New Sites for New Hires.” Composition

Studies 35.1 (Spring 2007): 37-38.

Covino, William A. “Defining Advanced Composition: Contributions from the History of Rhetoric.”

Journal of Advanced Composition 8 (1988): 113-122.

Cushman, Ellen. “Vertical Writing Programs in Departments of Rhetoric and Writing.” Composition

Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom,

Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press,

2003. 121-125.

Delli Carpini, Dominic. “Re-writing the Humanities: The Writing Major’s Effect upon Under graduate

Studies in English Departments.” Composition Studies 35.1 (Sp. 2007): 15-36.

Dicks, Bernice. “State of the Art in Advanced Expository Writing: One Genus, Many Species.”

Journal of Advanced Composition 3 (1982): 172-191.

Estrem, Heidi. “Growing Pains: The Writing Major in Composition and Rhetoric.” Composition

Studies 35.1 (Spring 2007): 11-14.

Ewald, Helen Rothschild. “What We Could Tell Advanced Student Writers about Audience.” Journal

of Advanced Composition 11 (1991): 147-58.

Fischer, Ruth Overman, and Christopher J. Thaiss. “Advancing Writing at GMU: Responding to

Community Needs, Encouraging Faculty Interests.” Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing

Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A.

Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000. 139.

Fulkerson, Richard. “Conjectures on (Advanced?) Composition and Its Teaching.” Journal of

Advanced Composition 1 (1980): 30-34.

Fulkerson, Richard. “Some Theoretical Speculations on the Advanced Composition Curriculum.”

Journal of Advanced Composition 1 (1980): 9-12.

Gebhardt, Richard. “The Subject Is Writing.” Journal of Advanced Composition 1 (1980): 13-17.

Geiger, T.J. “A New Field of Dreams: A Study of the Writing Major.” Diss. Syracuse U, 2013.

Hairston, Maxine. “Working with Advanced Writers.” College Composition and Communication 35

(1984): 196-208.

Halio, Marcia PeoPles. “Conferencing at the Advanced Composition Level.” ATAC Forum 2.2 (1990):

11-13.

Halpern, Jeanne W. “The Structure of Advanced Composition.” Journal of Advanced Composition 1

(1980): 45-52.

Hart, Edward L. “Advanced Composition: What Is It?” College Composition and Communication 22

(1971): 291-292.

Hogan, Michael P. “Advanced Composition: A Survey.” Journal of Advanced Composition 1 (1980):

21-29. Rpt. Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition. Ed. Gary A. Olson and Julie Drew.

Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1996. 7-16.

Howard, Rebecca Moore. “Curricular Activism: The Writing Major as Counterdiscourse.”

Composition Studies, 35:1. Spring 2007. 41-52.

Jamieson, Sandra. “The Major in Composition Writing and Rhetoric: Tracking Changes in the

Evolving Discipline.” In Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity: Traces of the Past, Issues of

the Moment, and Prospects for the Future. Eds Kathleen Yancey, Rita Malencyzk, Elizabeth

Wardle, and Susan Miller-Cochran. Parlor. Forthcoming.

Jenseth, Richard. “Assignment Sequencing in Advanced Composition.” The ATAC Newsletter 1.1

(1989): 10-11.

Keene, Michael L., and Ray Wallace. “Advanced Writing Courses and Programs.” Teaching Advanced

Composition. Ed. Katherine H. Adams and John L. Adams. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook,

1991. 89-102.

L’Eplattenier, Barbara and George H. Jensen. “Reshaping the BA in Professional and Technical

Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.” Writing Majors: Eighteen Program

Profiles. Ed. Gregory A. Giberson, Jim Nugent, and Lori Ostergaard. Logan: Utah State UP,

2015. 22-35.

Larson, Gale K. “The Advanced Composition Course.” College Composition and Communication 21

(1970): 289-290.

Larson, Richard. “A Special Course in Advanced Composition for Prospective Teachers.” The Journal

of Teacher Education 20 (1969): 168-174

Loux, Ann Kimble, and Rebecca M. Stoddart. “Denial, Conflagration, Pride: Three Stages in the

Development of an Advanced Writing Requirement.” College Composition and Communication

45 (1994): 521-534. Rpt. Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition. Ed. Gary A. Olson and

Julie Drew. Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1996. 99-112.

Lovitt, Carl R. “Literature Requirements in the Curricula of Writing Degrees and Concentrations:

Examining a Shifting Institutional Relationship.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 29.1-2

(Fall 2005): 11-30.

Lowe, Kelly. “Against the Writing Major.” Composition Studies 35.1 (Spring 2007): 97-98.

McCormick, Kathleen, and Donald C. Jones. “Developing a Professional and Technical Writing Major

That Integrates Composition Theory, Literacy Theory, and Cultural Studies.” Coming of Age:

The Advanced Writing Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra

Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000. 140 and

CD-ROM.

Mathes, J.C. “A Taxonomy of Communication Acts for the Design of Advanced Writing Courses.”

Journal of Advanced Composition 1 (1980): 53-57.

McClure, Randall. “Projecting the Shape of the Writing Major.” Composition Studies 35.1 (Spring

2007): 39-40.

Moore, Leslie, and Linda Peterson. “Convention as Transition: Linking the Advanced Composition

Course to the College Curriculum.” Journal of Advanced Composition 4 (1983): 173-187.

Newman, Glenn. “Concocting a Writing Major: A Recipe for Success.” Composition Studies 35.1

(Spring 2007): 79-80.

Olson, Gary A. “Advanced Composition.” Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts.

National Council of Teachers of English, 1995.

O’Neill, Peggy and Barbara Mallonee. “Reforming and Transforming Writing in the Liberal Arts

Context: The Writing Department at Loyola University of Maryland.” Writing Majors: Eighteen

Program Profiles. Ed. Gregory A. Giberson, Jim Nugent, and Lori Ostergaard. Logan: Utah

State UP, 2015. 47-61.

Orth, Michael P. “An Advanced Composition Course Aimed at Publication.” College Composition

and Communication 17 (1976): 210-212.

Palumbo, Roberta M. “Advanced Composition: A Course for Students in All Disciplines.” ERIC,

1977. ED 147 843.

Peele, Thomas. “What Do We Mean When We Say Writing?” Composition Studies 35.1 (Spring

2007): 95-96.

Peeples, Timothy, Paula Rosinski, and Michael Strickland. “Chronos and Kairos, Strategies and

Tactics: The Case of Constructing Elon University’s Professional Writing and Rhetoric

Concentration.” Composition Studies 35.1 (Spring 2007): 57-76.

Pelz, Karen. “James Britton and the Pedagogy of Advanced Composition.” Journal of Advanced

Composition 3 (1982): 1-9.

Penfield, Elizabeth. “Freshman English/Advanced Writing: How Do We Distinguish the Two?

Teaching Advanced Composition. Ed. Katherine H. Adams and John L. Adams. Portsmouth, NH:

Boynton/Cook, 1991. 17-30.

Perron, John, Mary Rist, and Drew M. Loewe. “From ‘Emphasis’ to Fourth-Largest Major: Learning

from the Past, Present, and Future of the Writing Major at St. Edward’s University.” Writing

Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles. Ed. Gregory A. Giberson, Jim Nugent, and Lori Ostergaard.

Logan: Utah State UP, 2015. 208-2017

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee and John Ackerman “Making the Case for Disciplinarity in Rhetoric,

Composition, and Writing Studies: The Visibility Project.” College Composition and

Communication 62.1. (2010): 180-215. DOI: 10.2307/27917890

Porter, James E., and Patricia Sullivan. "'Remapping Curricular Geography:' A

Retrospection." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 21.1 (2007): 15-20.

Reynolds, John F., and Lita Liwag-Sutcliffe. “Team Teaching and Grading in Advanced

Composition.” ATAC Forum 3.1 (1991): 11-13.

Schwegler, Robert A. “Curriculum Development in Composition.” Coming of Age: The Advanced

Writing Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and

Robert A. Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000. 25-31.

Scott, J. Blake and Elizabeth Wardle. “Using Threshold Concepts to Inform Writing and Rhetoric

Undergraduate Majors The UCF Experiment.” In Naming What We Know Threshold Concepts of

Writing Studies Ed. Adler-Kassner, Linda and Elizabeth Wardle. Logan: Utah State UP, 2015.

122-139

Shamoon, Linda K., and Celest Martin. “Which Part of the Elephant Is this?: Questioning Creative

Non-Fiction in the Writing Major.” Composition Studies 35.1 (Spring 2007): 53-54.

Shamoon, Linda K. “The Academic Effacement of a Career: ‘Writer.’” Coming of Age: The Advanced

Writing Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and

Robert A. Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000. 42-51.

Schaffner, Spencer. “Grounding the Writing Major in the Socio-Graphemic Approach.” Composition

Studies 35.1 (Spring 2007): 55-56.

Shumaker, Arthur W. “How Can a Major in Composition Be Established?” Journal of Advanced

Composition 2.1-2 (1981): 139-146

Stevenson, Dwight W. “Teaching Rhetoric to Students in Upper Division and Professional Degree

Program Courses.” Journal of Advanced Composition 1 (1980): 60-67.

Stewart, Donald C. “Practical Work for Advanced Composition Students.” College Composition and

Communication 31 (1980): 81-83.

Stone, William B. “Rewriting in Advanced Composition.” Journal of Advanced Composition 1 (1980):

74-77.

Sullivan, Patricia, and James E. Porter. "Remapping Curricular Geography: Professional Writing

in/and English." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 7.4 (1993): 389-422.

Taylor, Hill. ” Black Spaces: Examining the Writing Major at an Urban HBCU.” Composition Studies

35.1 (Spring 2007): 99-112.

Trimbur, John. “The Problem of Freshman English (Only): Towards Programs of Study in Writing.”

WPA: Writing Program Administration 22.3 (Spring 1999): 9-30.

Werner, Warren W., Isabelle K. Thompson, and Joyce Rothschild. “A Survey of Specialized Writing

Courses for English Majors: 1975-76 to 1985-86.” Rhetoric Review 6 (1988): 204-217.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Introduction: Coming to Terms Composition/Rhetoric, Threshold Concepts,

and a Disciplinary Core.” In Naming What We Know Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies Ed.

Adler-Kassner, Linda and Elizabeth Wardle. Logan: Utah State UP, 2015. xvii-xxxi

Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “CCCC Chair's Letter” College Composition and Communication Vol. 56,

No. 2 (Dec., 2004): 358-367

Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Made Not Only In Words Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New

Key” College Composition and Communication Vol. 56, No. 2 (Dec., 2004): 297-328.