Contents
Introduction: Complicating Composition / Christine Farris and Chris M. Anson
I. The Research/Theory/Practice Relationship
1. Theory, Research, Practice, Work / Christopher Ferry
2. Composing Composition Studies: Scholarly Publication and the Practice of Discipline / Peter Vandenberg
3. Toward a Theory of Theory for Composition Studies / James Thomas Zebroski
II. Critiquing Theories in Practice
4. The Dialogic Function of Composition Pedagogy: Negotiating between Critical Theory and Public Values / Rebecca Moore Howard
5. Keeping Honest: Working-Class Students, Difference, and Rethinking the Critical Agenda in Composition / David Seitz
6. Rethinking the Personal Narrative: Life-Writing and Composition Pedagogy / Deborah Mutnick
7. What Difference the Differences Make: Theoretical and Epistemological Differences in Writing Assessment Practice / Brian Huot and Michael M. Williamson
III. Refiguring and Relocating Research
8. Voices of Research: Methodological Choices of a Disciplinary Community / Susan Peck MacDonald
9. Grounded Theory: A Critical Research Methodology / Joyce Magnotto Neff
10. Feminist Methodology: Dilemmas for Graduate Researchers / Shirley Rose and Janice Lauer
11. Insider/Outsider/Other?: Confronting the Centeredness of Race, Class, Color and Ethnicity in Composition Research / Yuet-Sim D. Chiang
12. Re-Centering Authority: Social Reflexivity and Re-Positioning in Composition Research / Ellen Cushman and Terese Guinsatao Monberg
13. Tracking Composition Research on the World Wide Web / Susan Romano
14. Farther Afield: Rethinking the Contributions of Research / Ruth Ray and Ellen Barton
IV. Remaking Knowledge and Rewriting Practice
15. A Rhetoric of Teacher-Talk—Or How to Make More Out of Lore / Wendy Bishop
16. Theory, Practice, and the Bridge Between: The Methods Course and Reflective Rhetoric / Kathleen Blake Yancey
17. Rewriting Praxis (and Redefining Texts) in Composition Research / Nancy Maloney Grimm, Anne Frances Wysocki, and Marilyn M. Cooper
18. Coming (in)to Consciousness: One Asian American Teacher’s Journey into Activist Teaching and Research / Gail Y. Okawa
Works Cited
Contributors
Index