Article Summaries

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This page links to in-depth article summaries from prominent authors in this field. Links are organized by author's last name.

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Contents 1 A-D 2 E-H 3 I-L 4 M-P 5 Q-T 6 U-X 7 Y & Z

A-D

• Aristotle, Poetics
• Aristotle, Rhetoric

• Bakhtin, Mikhail "Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences"
• Baron, Dennis "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technology"
• Barthes, Roland "Death of the Author"
• Blythe, Stuart "Coding Digital Texts and Multimedia"
• Bitzer, Lloyd "The Rhetorical Situation"
• Bizzell, Patricia "Arguing About Literacy"
• Bormann, Ernest G. "Symbolic Convergence Theory"
• Brent, Douglas "Rogerian Rhetoric: An Alternative to Traditional Rhetoric"
• Bryant, Donald C. "Rhetoric: Its Functions and Its Scope"
• Burke, Kenneth "Definition of Man"

• Corder, Jim W. "Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love"
• "CCCC Position Statement"
• Cope, Bill and Kalantzis, Mary. "A Grammar of Multimodality"

• Delagrange, Susan "When Reflection is Re-Design: Key Questions for Digital Scholarship"
• DePew, Kevin Eric “Through the Eyes of Researchers, Rhetors, and Audiences”
• Downs, Douglas and Elizabeth Wardle “Teaching About Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning 'First Year Composition' as 'Introduction to Writing Studies'”

E-H

• Ede, Lisa S. and Andrea A. Lunsford "On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric"
• Ehninger, Douglas "On Systems of Rhetoric"
• Emig, Janet "Writing as a Mode of Learning"
• Eyman, Doug and Colleen Reilly "Multifaceted Methods for Multimodal Texts"

• Fisher, Walter "Narration as a Human Communication Paradigm"
• Foucault, Michel "What Is an Author?"

• Hea, Amy C. Kimme "Riding The Wave"
• Halloran, Michael S. "On the End of Rhetoric: Classical and Modern"
• Hart-Davidson, Bill and Steven D. Krause “Re: The Future of Computers and Writing: A Multivocal Textumentary”
• Hawkes, Lory "Impact of Invasive Web Technologies on Digital Research"

I-L

• Jenkins, Henry "Eight Traits of the New Media Landscape"
• Johnson-Eilola, Johndan “Negative Spaces: From Production to Connection in Composition”

• Logie, John “Champing at the Bits: Computers, Copyright, ad the Composition Classroom”
• Lunsford, Andrea and Lisa Ede "On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric"

M-P

• McIntire-Strasburg, Janice "Multimedia Research"
• McKeon, Richard “The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts”
• Moeller, Ryan and David Christensen "System Mapping: A Genre Field Analysis of the National Science Foundation's Grant Proposal and Funding Process"
• Mooney, Annabelle "The Rhetoric of Cults: Intoduction"

• Ohmann, Richard “In Lieu of a New Rhetoric”

• Palmquist, Mike, Kate Kiefer, James Hartvigsen, and Barbara Goodlew "Contrasts: Teaching and Learning about Writing in Traditional and Computer Classrooms"
• Perelman, Chaïm "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning"

Q-T

• Richards, I.A. "How to Read a Page"
• Rickly, Rebecca "Messy Contexts: Research as a Rhetorical Situation"

• Saussure, Ferdinand de "Nature of the Linguistic Sign"
• Scott, Robert L. "On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic"
• Sidler, Michelle "Playing Scavenger and Gazer with Scientific Discourse: Opportunities and Ethics for Online Research"
• Selfe, Cynthia L. & Richard J. Selfe Jr. "The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones"
• Slatin, John M. "Reading Hypertext: Order and Coherence in a New Medium"
• Sorapure, Madeleine, Pamela Inglesby, and George Yatchisin "Web Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities for Research in a New Medium"

• Toulmin, Stephen "The Layout of Arguments"

U-X

• Vatz, Richard "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation

• Wardle, Elizabeth and Douglas Downs “Teaching About Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning 'First Year Composition' as 'Introduction to Writing Studies'”
• Weaver, Richard "The Cultural Role of Rhetoric
• Williams, Sean D. "Part 2: Toward an Integrated Composition Pedagogy in Hypertext"

Y & Z

• Yancey, Kathleen Blake "Looking for Sources of Coherence in a Fragmented World: Notes toward a New Assessment Design"
• Yancey, Kathleen Blake "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key"