English 521: Composition Theory and Pedagogy

This page contains links to some resources on the web that are related to composition theory and pedagogy. This page will likely change throughout the semester as new links are added or old one are updated.

General Resources

Orgainzations

Journals.

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• Rhetoric and Composition page. A very useful site from the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University containing extensive links for rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies.

• Composition and Rhetoric Bibliographic Database. A very useful site maintained by Lee Honeycutt at Iowa State University containing extensive bibliographies for composition and rhetoric.

• Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, 4th edition. This bibliography, edited by Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg, contains many citiations relevant to the study of rhetorical theory and history.

• WWW Database for Rhetoric and Composition. A helpful though slightly dated site maintained by the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System.

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• National Council of Teachers of English.
• Conference on College Composition and Communication.
• Alliance for Computers and Writing.

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• College Composition and Communication, the preeminent journal in the field of Composition.

• Computers and Composition. An excellent journal devoted to issues of technology in the teaching of writing.

• Pre/Text. A rather edgy and provocative journal with an esoteric take on the field.

• Rhetoric Review. This outstanding journal has a broad focus that encompasses classical rhetoric and rhetorical theory as well composition theory and pedagogy.

• Journal of Teaching Writing. A less well-known but very useful journal intended for K-12 teachers as well as college-level teachers and scholars.

• Research in the Teaching of English. one of the few journals still devoted primarily to empirical research. This web site includes an extensive and very useful set of links to related resources as well as an annotated bibliography for the journal.

• Kairos. One of the first (and perhaps the best) exclusively online journal devoted to issues in writing and teaching writing with technology.

• Journal of Advanced Composition. An excellent journal whose focus tends to be on theoretical issues in the teaching of writing.

• RhetNet, a "dialogic publishing (ad)venture," maintained at the University of Missouri. Includes several unusual and interesting bibliographies.

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