1600 - 1699

1700 - 1799

1800 - 1865

Newman, Samuel: A Practical System of Rhetoric (1827)

1865 - 1899

Hill, Adams Sherman: The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application (1878)

Bain, Alexander: English Composition and Rhetoric (1866)

1900 - 1919

1920 - 1929

1930 - 1939

1940 - 1949

1950 - 1959

Kitzhaber, Albert R. Rhetoric in American Colleges, 1850-1900. 

1960 - 1969

Cremin, Lawrence A. The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education 1876-1957. (1961)

Kinneavy, James L. “Basic Aims of Discourse”

1970 - 1979

Ohmann, Richard. English in America: A Radical View of the Profession (1976)

Mina Shaughnessy, Errors and Expectations (1977)

Geneva Smitherman, Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America (1977)

Donald Murray “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product” (1972)

1980 - 1989

Faigley, Lester. “Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal.” (1986)

Connors, Robert. “The Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse.” (1981)

Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. (1987)

Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History. (1987)

Berlin, James. “Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class.” (1988)

Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary (1989)

Flynn, Elizabeth A. “Composing as a Woman.” (1988)

Myers, Greg. “Reality, Consensus, and Reform in the Rhetoric of Composition Teaching.” (1986)

Bizzell, Patricia “Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing”

What Is Literacy

Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class

Flower, Linda; Hayes, John. “A Cognitive Theory of Writing.” (1981)

James Berlin’s Rhetoric and Reality.  SIUP, 1987

1990 - 1999

Myers, D.G. The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880 (1996)

Hawisher, Gail E., et al. Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education (1996)

Connors, Robert J. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy (1997)

Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966 (1997)

Professing Multiculturalism: The Politics of Style in the Contact Zone

Royster, Jacqueline Jones. “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own.” (1996)

Paul Kei Matsuda’s “Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor”

Vandenberg, Peter. “Taming Multiculturalism: The Will to Literacy in Composition Studies.” (1999)

Villanueva, Victor. “On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism.” (1996)

“The Subject Is Discourse” by John Clifford

Ritchie, Joy S. and Kathleen Boardman “Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption”

Cushman, Ellen “The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research” (1999)

Reynolds, Nedra. “Composition’s Imagined Geographies: The politics of Space in the Frontier...”

Linda Flower, “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing”

Royster, Jacqueline Jones and Jean C. Williams. “History in the Spaces Left...”

Trimbur, John. “Taking the Social Turn: Teaching Writing Post-Process.” College Composition and Communication 45.1 (1994):108–18

2000 - 2009

Lee-Ann M. Kastman Breuch “Post-Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philosophical Exercise”

Bawarshi, Anis. “Sites of Invention.” (2003)

Daniel Mahala and Jody Swilky (2003) “Constructing Disciplinary Space: The Borders, Boundaries, and Zones of English”

The Intellectual Work of Mixed Forms of Academic Discourse—Patricia Bizzell

Dobrin, Sidney and Christian Weisser. “Breking Ground in Ecocomposition: Exploring Relationships...” (2000)

Taking Dictation: The Emergence of Writing Programs and the Cultural Contradictions of Composition Teaching

Sohn, Katherine Kelleher. Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College. (2006)

Connors, Robert. “The Erasure of the Sentence.” (2000)