Concepts in Composition

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Processes: Approaches and Issues Irene L. Clark
Reading(s) Composing Behaviors of One-and Multi-Draft Writers

Author: Muriel Harris (1989)

Source: College English, 51 (2): 174-190

Author: Mary Jo Reiff (2006)

Source: In Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers. Eds. Peter Vandenberg, Sue Hum, Jennifer Clary-Lemon. NCTE: Urbana IL, 157-206




Invention: Issues and Strategies Irene L. Clark
Reading: Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language, A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer's Block

Author: Mike Rose (1980)

Source: College Composition and Communication, 31(4): 389-401




Revision: Issues and Strategies Betty Bamberg and Irene L. Clark
Reading: Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers

Author: Nancy Sommers (1980)

Source: College Composition and Communication, 31(4): 378-388




Audiences Irene L. Clark
Reading: Closing My Eyes as I speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience

Author: Peter Elbow (1987)

Source: College English, 49(1): 50-69




Genre, Transfer, and Related Issues Irene L. Clark
Reading: "Emphasizing Similarity" but Not "Eliding Difference": Exploring Sub- Disciplinary Differences as a Way to Teach Genre Flexibly

Katherine Schaefer (2015)

WAC Journal, 26: 36-55




Reading/Writing Connections Irene L. Clark
Reading: Motivation and Connection: Teaching Reading (and Writing) in the Composition Classroom

Author: Michael Bunn (2013)

Source: College Composition and Communication, 64(3): 496-516




Assessment: Issues and Controversies Julie Neff-Lippman
Reading: Across the Drafts

Author: Nancy Sommers (2006)

Source: College Composition and Communication, 58: 248-257




Teaching Multilingual Students in a Composition Class Olga Griswold and John Edlund
Reading: Promoting Grammar and Language Development in the Writing Class: Why, What How, and When

Author: Dana R. Ferris (2016)

Source: In Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages. Ed. E. Hinkel. New York: Hinkel (2016) pp. 222-245




Language, Linguistic Diversity, and Writing Sharon Klein
Reading: Clarifying the Multiple Dimensions of Monolingualism: Keeping Our Sights on Language Politics

Authors: Missy Watson and Rachael Shapiro (2018)

Source: Composition Forum, 38, http://compositionforum.com/issue/38/




Issues in Digital and Multimodal Writing: Composition Instruction for the 21st Century Jennifer Sheppard

Reading: The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing

Author: Cynthia L. Selfe (2009)

Source: College Composition and Communication, 60(4): 616-663