Journals - Rhetoric and Composition
College English
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College English
Editor: John Schilb
Key words: college teacher, literature, rhetoric, writing theory, pedagogy, literacy
College English is the professional journal for the college scholar-teacher. CE publishes articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and pedagogy, linguistics, literacy, reading theory, pedagogy, and professional issues related to the teaching of English. Each issue also includes opinion pieces, review essays, and letters from readers. It is published in the month of September, November, January, March, May, and July.
Recent issues (Vol. 72, No. 1, September 2009):
- The Fighting Style: Reading the Unabomber’s Strunk and White by Catherine Prendergast.
Abstract: The fiftieth anniversary of the Strunk and White edition of The Elements of Style is an appropriate occasion for considering its enormous popularity. Especially interesting is the esteem for the book held by Theodore Kaczynszki, convicted as the Unabomber. His embrace of Strunk and White’s values points to a kind of violence and primitivist nostalgia in their ideology of style
- Floating Foundations: Kairos, Community, and a Composition Program in Post-Katrina New Orleans by T. R. Johnson, Joe Letter, and Judith Kemerait Livingston
Abstract: The authors describe their individual and collective experiences reconstructing their New Orleans-based university composition program in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They emphasize how the concept of floating foundations helps account for changes in their students’ interests, and they suggest that this idea is applicable to the work of writing instructors in general.
- Reconsiderations: Anonymity and Violence: Jane Tompkins’s “Fighting Words” Twenty Years Later by Gary Weissman
Abstract: In her influential 1988 essay, “Fighting Words,” Jane Tompkins argued that the arguments typically made by literary critics are characterized by an aggressive competitiveness that amounts to violence. But, as Tompkins’s own rhetorical strategies demonstrate, at least as deplorable are the practices whereby critics render certain people anonymous.
- Opinion: An Argument for Archival Research Methods: Thinking Beyond Methodology by Barbara L’Eplattenier
Abstract: In reporting their research, historians of rhetoric and composition should be more explicit and specific about their investigative methods.
- Review: Not Your Parents’ Curriculum: Multiple Genres, Technologies, and Disciplines in the Life Writing Classroom by Victoria Elmwood
Access:
- View current issues on their official website
- Recent issues from 2004 to 2009 in periodicals are available on the 4th and 7th floor of Alden Library.
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