Teaching English and Composition

Books, articles and links on teaching English, composition, writing and rhetoric

English Pear 'Jargonelle'
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Dixon, J. (1967). Growth Through English. NATE/Oxford University Press.

Dixon, J. (1991). A Schooling in 'English': Critical Episodes in the Struggle to Shape Literary and Cultural Studies. Open University Press.

Goodson, I. and Medway, P. eds. (1990). Bringing English to Order: the History and Politics of a School Subject. Falmer Press.

Graff, G. (1987). Professing Literature. University of Chicago Press.

Heilker, P. (1996). The Essay: Theory and Pedagogy for an Active Form. NCTE.

Kress, G. (1995). Writing the Future. English and the Making of a Culture of Innovation. NATE.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (2004). 'An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism.' College Composition and Communication 56.1 (2004): 16–50.

Lunsford, A. and Ede, L. (1990). Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Lunsford, A. and Ede, L. (1994). 'Collaborative Authorhship and the Teaching of Writing' in Woodmansee, M. and Jaszi, P. The Construction of Authorship. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

Marshall, B. (2000). 'A Rough Guide to English Teachers'. English in Education, 34,1: 24-41.

Miller, S. (1989). Rescuing the Subject: a Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer. Southern Illinois University Press.

Morgan, W. (1997). Critical Literacy in the Classroom: the Art of the Possible. London and New York: Routledge.

Murphy, J. ed. (2001). A Short History of Writing Instruction From Ancient Greece to Modern America. Hermagoras Press.

Nystrand, M., Greene, S., & Wiemelt, J. (1993). 'Where did composition studies come from? An intellectual history'. Written Communication 10: 267-333.

Oliver, R. (2007). 'Essayist Literacy Plus: an Activity-based Analysis of Texts in Curriculum Change'. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Conference on College Communication and Composition, New York. For a summary of this presentation see here.

Petraglia, J. (1995). Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Pope, R. (1995). Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. London and New York: Routledge.

Scholes, R. (1998). The Rise and Fall of English. Yale University Press.

Willinsky, J. (1991). The Triumph of Literature, the Fate of Literacy: English in the Secondary School Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press.

Assessment

White, E., Lutz, W. and Kamusukiri, S. eds. (1996). Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. New York: MLA.

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Pedagogy & Curriculum

Applebee, A. N. (1996). Curriculum as conversation : transforming traditions of teaching and learning. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.

Bernstein, B. (1996). Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity. Taylor and Francis.

Bruner, J. (1986). Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. (1996). The Culture of Education. Harvard University Press.

Christie, F. ed. (1999). Pedagogy and the Shaping of Consciousness. Continuum.
Includes Bernstein, 'Official Knowledge and Pedagogic Identities'.

Delpit, L. (1988). 'The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children'. Harvard Educational Review, 53,3: 280-298.

Elsworth, E. (1989). 'Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy'. Harvard Educational Review, 59,3: 297-324.

Gilbert, P. (1988). Writing, Schooling and Deconstruction: From Voice to Text in the Classroom. London: Routledge.

Green, A. (1997). Education, Globalization and the Nation State. Macmillan.

Janks, H. (2000). 'Domination, access, diversity and design: a synthesis for critical literacy education'. Educational Review, 52: 175-186.

Kress, G. (2000). 'A Curriculum for the Future'. Cambridge Journal of Education, 30,1: 133-145.
Luke, A. (1988). Literacy, Textbooks, and Ideology. Falmer Press.

Learning Theory

Heath, S.B. (1996). 'Good Science or Good Art? Or both?' in Baker, D., Clay, J. and Fox C. eds. Alternative Ways of Knowing: Literacies, Numeracies, Sciences. Falmer Press.

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Literary Study

Corcoran, B., Hayhoe, M. and Pradl, G. eds. (1994). Knowledge in the Making: Challenging the Text in the Classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann.

Hines, M.B. and Appleman, D. (2000). 'Multiple Ways of Knowing in Literature Classrooms'. English Education, 32:141-168.

Langer, J. ed. (1992). Literature Instruction: a Focus on Student Response. Urbana, Ill: NCTE.

Langer, J. (1995). Envisioning Literature: Literary Understanding and Literary Instruction. New York: Teachers College Press.

Morgan, W. (1994). 'Works of Literature or the Play of Texts? Unconventional Writing in the Secondary Classroom'. In Corcoran, B. et al.

Pradl, G. (1996). Literature for Democracy: Reading as a Social Act. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.

Probst, R. (1992). 'Five Kinds of Literary Knowing' in Langer, J ed.

Rosenblatt, L. (1938/1995). Literature as Exploration. New York: MLA.

Rosenblatt, L. (1978). The Reader, the Text, the Poem: the Transactional Theory of the Literary Work. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Smagorinsky, P., & Coppock, J. (1994). 'Cultural tools and the classroom context: An exploration of an artistic response to literature'. Written Communication, 11: 283-310.

Smagorinsky, P., & Coppock, J. (1995). 'The reader, the text, the context: An exploration of a choreographed response to literature'. Journal of Reading Behavior, 27, 271-98.

Sumara, D.J. (1996). Private Readings in Public: Schooling the Literary Imagination. New York: Peter Lang.

Woods, C. (2001). 'Bridging the creative and the critical'. L1 - Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 1: 55-72. Online at IAIMTE site.

Yancey, K. (2004). Teaching Literature as Reflective Practice. Urbana, Il: NCTE.

US National Council for the Teaching of English Position Statement on Literature in the Curriculum (2006)

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Professional and Research Associations

UK Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre
http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/index.php
NCTE http://www.ncte.org
CCCC http://www.ncte.org/cccc/
NATE http://www.nate.org.uk/index.php
IFTE http://www.ifte.net/
UKLA http://www.ukla.org/site/about/index.php
IAIMTE http://www.ilo.uva.nl/development/iaimte/
IRA http://www.reading.org/
EARLI http://www.earli.org/

Learning to Write/Writing to Learn

Books and articles on writing and learning

Illustration by Christopher Baldwin.

Andrews, R. (1995). Teaching and Learning Argument. Cassell Education.

Blakeslee, A.M. (2001). Interacting with Audiences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Brandt, D. (1995). 'Accumulating literacy: Writing and learning to write in the twentieth century'. College English, 57: 649-668.

Britton, J. (1970). Language and Learning. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook.

Britton, J., Burgess, T., Martin, N., McLeod, A. and Rosen, H. (1975). The Development of Writing Abilities 11-18. Macmillan Education.

Cherry, R. (1988). 'Ethos vs. Persona: Self-Representation in Written Discourse'. Written Communication, 5,3: 251-76.

Czerniewska, P. (1992). Learning about Writing. Blackwell.

Elbow, P. (2000). Everyone Can Write. Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Elbow, P. (2006). 'The Music of Form: Rethinking Organization' in College Composition and Communication, 57,4: 620-666. See my blog here for a discussion of this paper.

Emig, J. (1971). The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders. NCTE.

Flower, L. (1994). The construction of negotiated meaning: A social cognitive theory of writing. Carbondale: SIU Press

*Fulwiler, T. eds. (1987). The Journal Book. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook.

Haas, Christina. (1994). 'Reading biology: One student's rhetorical development in college'. Written Communication, 11: 43-84

Hasan, R. and Williams, G. eds. (1996). Literacy in Society. Longman.

Herrington, A. and Curtis, M. (2000). Persons in Process. Four Stories of Writing and Personal Development in College. NCTE.

Ivanič, R. (2004). ‘Discourses of writing and learning to write’, Language and Education 18 (3): 220 – 245. See also notes from 2003 Learning Conference, London, 'The Teaching of "Wrighting": Literacy Education in a Multimodal World'. Six 'discourses' of writing pedagogy: skills, creativity, process, genre, social practices, socio-political.

Kress, G. (1994). Learning to Write (Second Edition). Routledge.

Langer, J. and Applebee, A. (1987). How Writing Shapes Thinking: a Study of Teaching and Learning. Urbana, Il: NCTE.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (1987). 'From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle'. College English, 49,4: 437-48.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (1990). 'Writing as Repositioning'. Journal of Education, 172,1: 18-21.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (1991). 'Redefining the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy: a Critique of the Politics of Linguistic Innocence'. Journal of Basic Writing, 10,1: 26-40.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (1994). 'Professing Multiculturalism: the Politics of Style in the Contact Zone'. College Composition and Communication, 45,4: 442-58.

Mitchell, S. and Riddle, M. (2000). Improving the Quality of Argument in Higher Education. Middlesex University School of Lifelong Learning and Education.

Mitchell, S. (1996). The Teaching and Learning of Argument in Sixth Forms and Higher Education. Middlesex University.

Perera, K. (1984). Children's Writing and Reading: Analysing Classroom Language. Blackwell.

G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van den Bergh, M. Couzijn eds. (1996). Effective Teaching and Learning of Writing. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van den Bergh, M. Couzijn eds. (1996). Theories, Models and Methodology in Writing Research. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van den Bergh, M. Couzijn eds. (2005). Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

Winsor, D. A. (1996). Writing like an engineer: A rhetorical education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Zamel, V. and Spack, R. eds. (1998). Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures. Lawrence Erlbaum.

On Alternative Discourse

*Eldred, J.C. (2004). Sentimental Attachments: Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook/Heinemann.

On the patchwork text: see this Guardian article and the abstracts in the 2003 Innovations in Education and Teaching International collection here. Article on the patchwork text by Richard Winter here.

On L2 Writing

Matsuda, P.K., Cox, M, Jordan, J. and Ortmeier-Hooper, C. eds. (2006). Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Bedford/St Martins Press/NCTE.

Silva, T. and Matsuda, P.K. eds. (2001). On Second Language Writing. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Online

Lots of resources at Paul Matsuda's website including large bib at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~pmatsuda/index2.html.

Science writing - huge list of links at Chemistry Coach

Gothenburg University Project Learning to Write in the Information Society.

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Creativity

Carter, R. (2004). Language and Creativity: the Art of Common Talk. Routledge.

Pope, R. (2005). Creativity: Theory, History, Practice. Routledge.

Language Diversity, English/englishes

Books and articles on language diversity and 'global English/englishes
Abley, M. (2008). The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English. Heinemann.

Block, D. and Cameron, D. (2002). Globalization and Language Teaching. Routledge.

Canagarajah, A.S. (2006). 'The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued' in College Composition and Communication, 57:4, 586-619.

Clark, U. (2001). War Words: Language, History and the Disciplining of English. Elsevier Science.

Crowley, T. (1991). Proper English? Readings in Language, History and Cultural Identity. Routledge.

Crystal, D. (1997). English as a Global Language. Cambridge University Press.

Kachru, B.B. ed. (1992). The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures. University of Illinois Press.

Pennycook, A. (1994). The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language. London: Longman.

Tosi, A. (ed). (2002). Crossing Barriers and Bridging Cultures: the Challenge of Multilingual Translation for the European Union. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. For more on the EU Translation Service (the largest in the world) see here.

Bilingualism

Zentella, A.C. (1997). Growing Up Bilingual. Blackwells.

Social, Cultural and Literary Theory

Books and articles on all kinds of theory

Ahmed, S. (2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotions. Routledge.

Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined Comunities. Verso.

Armstrong, I. (2000). The Radical Aesthetic. Blackwell.

Bachelard, G. (1964). The Poetics of Space. Beacon Press.

Barthes, R. (1974). S/Z. Blackwell.

Barthes, R. (1977). Image Music Text. Fontana Press.

Barthes, R. (1985). The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-80. University of California Press.

Barthes, R. (1989). The Rustle of Language. University of California Press.

Barthes, R. (1993). Mythologies. Vintage Classics.

Barthes, R. (2000). Camera Lucida. Vintage Classics.

Baudrillard, J. (1988). Selected Writings. Stanford University Press.

Beck, U. and Beck- Gernsheim, E. (2002). Individualization. Sage.

Belsey, C. (1980). Critical Practice. Routledge.

Benjamin, W. (1973). Illuminations. Fontana.
'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction'

Bhaba, Homi K. (1994). The Location of Culture. Routledge.

Birch, D. (1989). Language, Literature and Critical Practice. Routledge.

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Harvard University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1990). In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology. Polity Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1990). The Logic of Practice. Stanford University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1991). Language and Symbolic Power. Polity Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1996). The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. Stanford University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1999). The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society (La Misere du Monde). Polity Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1977). Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture. Sage.

Bracher, M. (1993). Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: a Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism. Cornell University Press.

Butler, J. (1997). The Psychic Life of Power. Stanford University Press.

Butler, J. ed. Salih, S. (2004). The Judith Butler Reader. Blackwell Publishing.

Butler, J. (2005). Giving and Account of Oneself. New York: Fordham UP.

de Certeau, M. (1974/1998). Culture in the Plural. University of Minnesota Press.

de Certeau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press.

Geertz, C. (1983). Local Knowledge. Basic Books.

Giddens, A. (1984). The Constitution of Society. Polity Press.

Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Polity Press.

Giddens, A. (1992). The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Stanford University Press.

Giddens, A. (1996). In Defence of Sociology. Polity Press.

Guillory, J. (1993). Cultural Capital: the Problem of Literary Canon Formation. University of Chicago Press.

Hodge, R. and Kress, G. (1979). Language as Ideology. Routledge.

Vygotsky, L.S. (1925/1971). The Psychology of Art. MIT Press.

Writing in the News

History of Writing: ABC News report (29 October 2006) Oldest Writing in the World.

Writing and Immigration: article in The Independent by novelist Mohsin Hamid about applying for British citizenship and having to take the 'Test of Life in the UK'. See here.

Fonts and Typefaces: interesting BBC article (9 May 2007) about the Helvetica typeface, and ensuing debate about the social effects - or non-effects - of different fonts.