Parlor Press: Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition

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Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition

Editor
Charles Bazerman

Series Launch: 1 January 2004

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Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition

Series Editor
Charles Bazerman
UC, Santa Barbara
Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse

The Series provides compact, comprehensive and convenient surveys of what has been learned through research and practice as composition has emerged as an academic discipline over the last half century. Each volume is devoted to a single topic that has been of interest in rhetoric and composition in recent years, to synthesize and make available the sum and parts of what has been learned on that topic. These reference guides are designed to help deepen classroom practice by making available the collective wisdom of the field and will provide the basis for new research. The Series is intended to be of use to teachers at all levels of education, researchers and scholars of writing, graduate students learning about the field, and all who have interest in or responsibility for writing programs and the teaching of writing.

Parlor Press and The WAC Clearinghouse are collaborating so that these books will be widely available through low-cost print editions and free digital distribution. The publishers and the Series editor are teachers and researchers of writing, committed to the principle that knowledge should freely circulate. We see the opportunities that new technologies have for further democratizing knowledge. And we see that to share the power of writing is to share the means for all to articulate their needs, interest, and learning into the great experiment of literacy.

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Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Email: bazerman@education.ucsb.edu

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April 2008

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics

Elenore Long

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978-1-60235-056-4 (paperback, $30.00, £16.00, €20.00); 978-1-60235-057-1 (hardcover, $60.00, £32.00, €40.00); 978-1-60235-058-8 (Adobe eBook, $12.00, £7.00, €8.00); also available at the WAC Clearinghouse: http://wac.colostate.edu/

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Description
Offering a comparative analysis of community-literacy studies, Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of “ordinary people going public.” Elenore Long offers a rich theoretical framework for reviewing emergent community-literacy projects, examines pedagogies that educators can use to help students to go public in the course of their rhetorical education at college, and adapts local-public literacies to college curricula. A glossary and annotated bibliography provide the basis for further inquiry and research.

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics is the perfect entry to the exuberant practice of literacy in community. It brings contemporary research to life—in people, stories, and purposes. And it documents the amazingly diverse ways ordinary people go public.”

—Linda Flower, Carnegie Mellon

“Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics begins to articulate a history for community literacy studies, and such a history is essential for helping us figure out where we are going with this area of inquiry. Long provides a new set of tools as well, and her local publics framework, in particular, will prove valuable to researchers and teachers alike.”

—Jeff Grabill, Michigan State

About the Author
After completing a postdoctoral fellowship through Pittsburgh’s Community Literacy Center and Carnegie Mellon University, Elenore Long continued to direct community-literacy initiatives with Wayne Peck and Joyce Baskins. With Linda Flower and Lorraine Higgins, she published Learning to Rival: A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry. They recently published a fifteen-year retrospective for the Community Literacy Journal. She currently directs the composition program and Writers’ Center at Eastern Washington University.

April 2007

Writing Program Administration

Susan H. McLeod

Information and Pricing
978-1-60235-007-6 (paper, $30.00; £16.00); 978-1-60235-008-3 (cloth, $60.00; £32.00); 978-1-60235-009-0 ( Adobe eBook, $12.00; £7.00). 172 pages, with glossary, annotated bibliography, and index.

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Description
Like its predecessors in Charles Bazerman’s series on Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition, this reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more. Writing Program Administration also provides the first comprehensive history of writing program administration in U.S. higher education. Writing Program Administration includes a helpful glossary of terms and an annotated bibliography for further reading. Written by a WPA who has also served in other administrative positions (department chair and associate dean), the book takes a broad perspective on the work of the WPA. It is an indispensable guide for experienced and new writing program administrators alike. Students new to the study of writing program administration will find it to be their essential guide to its history and to their own professionalization.

About the Author
Susan H. McLeod is Professor of Writing and Director of the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published widely on writing across the curriculum and composition. Her most recent book is Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum (Parlor Press, 2006), which she edited with Margot Soven.

June 2006

Cover image of Revision Revision: History, Theory, and Practice

Edited by Alice Horning and Anne Becker

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ISBN 1-932559-75-2 (Paper; $30.00; £16.00); ISBN 1-932559-76-0 (Cloth; $60.00; £32.00); ISBN 1-932559-77-9 (Adobe eBook; $12.00; £6.30)

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Like its predecessors in Charles Bazerman’s series on Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition, Revision: History, Theory, and Practice explores the wide range of scholarship on revision while bringing new light to bear on enduring questions. Starting with its overview of conventional definitions and misconceptions about revision, whether surface or deep, Revision then offers both theoretical and practical strategies designed to facilitate post-secondary writing instruction.

The twelve contributors examine recent cognitive writing models and the roles of long- and short-term memory in the writing process, demonstrating theoretically why revision is difficult for novices. Revision pays close attention to the meaning and function of revision for various writers, from basic to professional, creative, and second language writers. Revision concludes with a detailed presentation of practical pedagogical strategies for teaching revision, with emphasis on revision in textbooks, technology-rich contexts, and peer review.

Authors include Anne Becker, Cathleen Breidenbach, David Stephen Calonne, Douglas Eyman, Catherine Haar, Alice Horning, Kasia Kietlinska, Robert Lamphear, Cathy McQueen, Colleen Reilly, Jeanie Robertson, and Carol Trupiano.

July 2005

Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum

Charles Bazerman, Joseph Little, Lisa Bethel, Teri Chavkin, Danielle Fouquette, and Janet Garufis

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ISBN 1-932559-42-6 (Paper; $30.00) ISBN 1-932559-43-4 (Cloth; $60.00) ISBN 1- 1-932559-44-2 (Adobe eBook; $12.00)

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Description
Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum traces the Writing Across the Curriculum movement from its origins in British secondary education through its flourishing in American higher education and extension to American primary and secondary education. The authors follow their historical review of the literature by a review of research into primary, secondary, and higher education WAC teaching and learning. Subsequent chapters examine the relations of WAC to Writing to Learn theory, research, and pedagogy, as well as its interactions with the Rhetoric of Science and Writing in the Disciplines movements. Current issues of theory and practice are followed by a presentation of best practices in program design, assessment, and classroom practices. An extensive bibliography and suggestions for further reading round out this comprehensive guide to Writing Across the Curriculum.

January 2004

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition

By Janice M. Lauer

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Charles Bazerman

© 2004 by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse. 276 pages, including glossary, bibliography, and index;
ISBN 1-932559-06-X ($30.00 Paper)
ISBN 1-932559-07-8 ($60 Cloth)
ISBN 1-932559-08-6 ($12.00 Adobe eBook).

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Invention in Rhetoric and Composition examines issues that have surrounded historical and contemporary theories and pedagogies of rhetorical invention, citing a wide array of positions on these issues in both primary rhetorical texts and secondary interpretations. It presents theoretical disagreements over the nature, purpose, and epistemology of invention and pedagogical debates over such issues as the relative importance of art, talent, imitation, and practice in teaching discourse. . >> more

© 2004 by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse. 276 pages, including index, glossary, and bibliography.. Available in paper, cloth, and Acrobat eBook formats, direct from the publisher online, by fax or mail-in form, or at any online or brick-and-mortar bookstore.

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