Approved Textbooks for First-Year Writing Courses
Instructors of 151, 152, and 153 must use a rhetoric (textbook focused on writing instruction) and a reader (textbook of readings) from the lists below. In their first year, new instructors must teach the required reader and rhetoric used in orientation. After their first year, instructors can teach from any reader and rhetoric on the approved list below. Any variation must be approved by the Director of Composition.
After their first year of teaching, instructors may propose a coursepack to replace a reader and teach with an approved rhetoric. To propose a coursepack, instructors submit either a copy of the proposed coursepack or an annotated bibliography of the coursepack with a rationale to the Director of Composition. The proposal should have a rationale that discusses why each reading was chosen, how the coursepack adheres to the First-year English Rhetorical Competencies, what approved rhetoric will be used with the readings, and a draft of the syllabus for the course.
151 Readers
- Bishop, Wendy. On Writing: A Process Reader. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2004.
- Carter, Duncan, and Sherrie Gradin. Writing as Reflective Action. NY: Longman, 2001.
- Faigley, Lester, and Jack Selzer. Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments. 3rd ed.
NY: Pearson, 2007. (includes the rhetoric).
- Hesford, Wendy S. and Brenda Jo Brueggemann. Rhetorical Visions: Reading and
Writing in a Visual Culture. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
- Shrodes, Caroline, et al. The Conscious Reader. Brief ed. New York: Pearson Longman,
2008.
- Silverman, Jonathan and Dean Rader. The World Is a Text: Writing, Reading, and
Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Prentice Hall, 2006.
- Sunstein, Bonnie Stone, and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. FieldWorking: Reading and
Writing Research. Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2007.
- Walters, Keith and Michael Brody, eds. What’s Language Got to Do with It? New York:
Norton, 2005.
151 Rhetorics
- Bean, John C., Virginia A. Chappell, and Alice M. Gillam. Reading Rhetorically. Brief
Ed. 2nd ed. NY: Pearson, 2007.
- Faigley, Lester. Good Reasons. 3rd ed. NY: Pearson, 2006.
- Ramage, John D., John C. Bean, and June Johnson. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to
Writing. Concise ed. 4th ed. NY: Pearson Longman, 2006. (or brief ed.)
- Ramage, John D., John C. Bean, and June Johnson. Writing Arguments. Concise ed. 4th
ed. NY: Pearson Longman, 2007.
- Wilhoit, Stephen W. A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings. 4th ed. NY: Pearson, 2007.
152 Readers
- Abcarian, Richard, and Marvin Klotz. Literature: The Human Experience. Shorter 9th ed.
Bedford St. Martins, 2007.
- Gwynn, R.S., and Steven J. Zani. Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Arguing. New
York: Pearson Longman, 2007.
- James, Missy, and Alan P. Merickel. Reading Literature and Writing Argument. 3rd ed.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall: 2008.
153 Readers
Longman Topic Readers, including:
- Friedman, Ellen G., and Marshall, Jennifer D. Issues of Gender. NY: Pearson Longman,
2004.
- Mathieu, Paula, et al. Writing Places. NY: Pearson Longman, 2006.
Approved Textbooks for Junior-Year Writing Courses
308J Readers
- Bizzell, Patricia. Negotiating Difference. NY: Bedford/St. Martins, 1996.
- Coleman, Linda S., and Robert Funk. Professional and Public Writing: A Rhetoric and
Reader for Advanced Composition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2005.
- Colombo, Gary, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle. Rereading America: Cultural Contexts
for Critical Thinking and Writing. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2007.
- Comley, Nancy R, et al. Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing. 8th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martins, 2007.
- Muller, Gilbert H. The New World Reader: Thinking and Writing about the Global
Community. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
- Ore, Tracy E. The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class,
Gender,and Sexuality. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2006.
- Trimbur, John. The Call to Write. Brief 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.