Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Ellen C. Carillo
Part 1. Transforming Scholes's "Canon of Methods"
1. Reading’s Many Branches: Robert Scholes’s “Canon of Methods” | Paul T. Corrigan
2. Now More Than Ever: Developing Crafty Readers in Writing Classes and across the Curriculum | Alice S. Horning
3. Periodical Textuality: A Case for Contextualized Reading Practices in First-Year Writing | Christopher J. La Casse
4. “Learning and Teaching”: A Heuristic for Prioritizing Teacher-Learning in English Education | Jessica Rivera-Mueller
5. Excerpt from “A Fortunate Fall?”: The Rise and Fall of English | Robert Scholes
Part 2. Extending Scholes’s Scholarship on Dispoitions and Habits of Mind
6. From Argument to Invitation: Promoting Empathy and Mutual Understanding in the Composition Classroom | Kelsey McNiff
7. “Everyday Theory”: Robert Scholes and the Ethics of Reading | Christian Smith
8. Truth, Propaganda, and Textual Power: A Pedagogy for Combatting Cynicism in the Post-Truth Era | Kenny Smith
9. “The Transition to College Reading” | Robert Scholes
Part 3. Thinking About Disciplinary Issues Alongside Scholes
10. How Scholes Helped English Departments Confront the Death of the Author, the Loss of Readers, and the Emergence of Intertextual Literacies | Thomas P. Miller
11. Will Writing Studies Abandon Literacy Education Too? | Emily J. Isaacs
12. “Not a Neat Conspiracy, but a Muddle”: A College-to-Career Quality Enhancement Plan in the Spirit of Robert Scholes | Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Angela Christie
13. Attending to the Tactical: Robert Scholes and the Legacy of White Language Supremacy | Robert Lestón
14. “The English Apparatus” | Robert Scholes
15. Presidential Address 2004: The Humanities in a Posthumanist World | Robert Scholes
Afterword | Douglas D. Hesse
About the Contributors
Index