Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition

by Olson, Gary A.; Taylor, Todd W.

• ISBN13: 9780791433966
• ISBN10: 079143396X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
J. Hillis Miller
Introduction	1	(4)
Joining the Scholarly Conversation: Publishing Articles and Chapters
Breaking the Print Barrier: Entering the Professional Conversation	5	(14)
Christina Murphy
Publishing Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition: Joining the Conversation	19	(16)
Gary A. Olson
Scholarship and Teaching: Motives and Strategies for Writing Articles in Composition Studies	35	(12)
Richard C. Gebhardt
Person, Position, Style	47	(10)
Joseph Harris
Gender and Publishing Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition	57	(18)
Theresa Enos
Shaping the Conversation: Publishing Scholarly Monographs and Textbooks
From Dissertation to Scholarly Monograph: Meeting Professional Expectations	75	(14)
Maureen M. Hourigan
Getting Booked: Commodity, Confinement, Conundrum	89	(14)
Jasper Neel
The Edited Collection: A Scholarly Contribution and More	103	(16)
Gail E. Hawisher
Cynthia L. Selfe
Planning and Producing a Traditional Rhetoric Textbook	119	(14)
Michael L. Keene
Ralph F. Voss
Making Essay Connections: Editing Readers for First-Year Writers	133	(14)
Lynn Z. Bloom
Negotiating the Conversation: Examining Issues in Scholarly Publishing
The Consequences of Theory for the Practice of Writing	147	(16)
Thomas Kent
Observation-Based Theory Building	163	(24)
Linda Flower
Conducting Research in the History of Rhetoric: An Open Letter to a Future Historian of Rhetoric	187	(10)
James J. Murphy
The Politics of Electronic Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition	197	(14)
Todd Taylor
Work Habits of Productive Scholarly Writers: Insights from Research in Psychology	211	(18)
Robert Boice
Graduate Students as Active Members of the Profession: Some Questions for Mentoring	229	(8)
Janice M. Lauer
Contributors	237	(4)
Index	241