History, Reflection, and Narrative

MARY ROSNER is Associate Professor of English, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, rhetoric, and literature. Her current interests are interdiciplinary: feminist readings of science, Victorian science and fiction, and the making of knowledge in composition theory.BETH BOEHM is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she also directs graduate studies in English. She teaches and writes about British Literature, Rhetoric, and Narrative Threory.DEBRA JOURNET is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Louisville. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of science and has appeared in such journals as Written Communication, Social Epistemology, Mosaic, and Technical Communication Quarterly.

• Acknowledgments Introduction, Debra Journet, Beth Boehm, and Mary Rosner PART I. HISTORY AND THE MAKING OF HISTORIES Composition History and Disciplinarity, Robert J. Connors Veterans' Stories on the Porch, Lester Faigley Paths Not Taken: Recovering History as Alternative Future, Louise W. Phelps Watson Conference Oral History #1: Research Forums and Agendas in Composition Studies, Carol Berkenkotter, Lester Faigley, Richard Larson, and Stephen Witte PART II. AGENDAS IN TEACHING AND IN RESEARCH Composition Research Agendas in the 1960s and 1970s, Richard Lloyd-Jones Early Work on Composing: Lessons and Illuminations, Sondra Perl The Expressivist Menace, James T. Zebroski A Brief History of Writing Assessment in the Late Twentieth Century: The Writer Comes Center Stage, Kathleen Blake Yancey Watson Conference Oral History #2: Process Theory and the Shape of Composition Studies, Deborah Brandt, Janet Emig, and Sondra Perl PART III. INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES AND DISCIPLINARY NARRATIVES Rereading Feminism's Absence and Presence in Composition, Kathleen A. Boardman and Joy Ritchie Is There Still a Place for Rhetorical History in Composition Studies? Gerald P. Mulderig The Developing Discipline of Composition: From Text Linguistics to Genre Theory, Amy J. Devitt Two Disciplinary Narratives for Non-Standard English in the Classroom: Citation Histories of Shaughnessy's Errors and Expectations and Smitherman's Talkin' and Testifyin', Shirley K. Rose Watson Conference Oral History #3: The Breadth of Composition Studies: Professionalization and Interdisciplinary, Joseph Comprone, Lisa Ede, Peter Elbow, Janice Lauer, Andrea Lunsford, and Richard Young Watson Conference Oral History #4: Classical Rhetoric in the Present and Future of Composition Studies, Edward P.J. Corbett, Frank D'Angelo, Winifred Horner, James Kinneavy, and C. Jan Swearingen PART IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROFESSION Professionalizing Politics, Richard Ohmann Evocative Gestures in CCCC Chairs' Addresses, Ellen L. Barton. Whispers from the Margin: A Class-based Interpretation of the Conflict Between High School and College Writing Teachers, Irvin Peckham Professing Rhetoric and Composition: A Personal Odyssey, Frank J. D'Angelo Watson Conference Oral History #5: Discourse and Politics in Composition Studies, David Bartholomae, Pat Bizzell, Patty Harkin, and Richard Ohmann PART V. FUTURE PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES Rethinking Research on Composing: Arguments for a New Research Agenda, Lee Odell and Christina Lynn Prell Intellectual-Bureaucrats: The Future of Employment in the Twilight of the Professions, Richard E. Miller Watson Conference Oral History #6: Working Inside and Outside Composition Studies, Charles Bazerman, Charles Cooper, Richard Lloyd-Jones, and Lee Odell Author Index Subject Index