Books

Considers How Social Media Writing Can Both Fuel and Resist Disinformation and Violence

Shows How a Rhetorical Theory That Centers Sensitivity Can Benefit Scholars and Students

Offers a New Rhetorical Repertoire for Interactive Writing in Social Media and Other Digital Spaces

A Global Analysis of Sites, Practices, and Processes of Decolonial and Indigenous Meaning-Making

A Corrective to the Pervasive Belief That Digital Writing Practices are Entirely New

How Five Prominent Women Writers Reshaped the Essay in the Late Twentieth Century

Weaponized Digital Rhetorics

A Detailed Study of the Rhetorical Labor of Low- and No-Wage Women Workers Unaffiliated with Traditional Labor Unions

Explores Writing as a Practice of Desire through an LGBTQ+ Lens

Centers Black Women’s Discourse and Sociopolitical Action from the Nation’s Founding through the Civil War and Beyond

Offers a New Perspective on Developing More Accessible Research and Teaching Practices and Learning Spaces

Offering a New, Ecological Theory of Inspiration That Shifts the Concept toward Deep, Transformative Connections

A Hopeful Approach to the Problem of Literacy Among Communities in Need

Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness traces the attempts of one writing teacher to understand theoretically – and to respond pedagogically – to what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college. Critical of even her own previous work, Patricia Bizzell presents a picture of how she has grappled with major issues in composition studies over the past decade and offers suggestions for the development of composition studies as an academic discipline.

In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, Fragments of Rationality questions why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines.

Winner of the 1994 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Winner of the 1992 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize