Books in the Studies in Composition and Rhetoric series

Balancing practical advice and theoretical discussions, this book provides a variety of models, frameworks, and research methods to consider writing assessment approaches that are sensitive to the linguistic and cultural identities that diverse students bring to writing classrooms.

Afrocentric Teacher-Research: Rethinking Appropriateness and Inclusion reports on a qualitative teacher-research study that examines the ways in which African American and other students perform expository writing tasks using an Afrocentric Ebonics-focused first-year writing curriculum.

Confronts a range of debates about stewardship in writing studies in the 21st century. In this book, the authors represent a broad range of expertise and specialization in the field, and they seek to answer questions not only about the current ownership of writing studies but also about the theoretical and practical applications of this ownership.

Includes a discussion of contexts in which argumentative and aggressive communication has become salient as well as areas of research which extend into the domains of healthcare, sports, politics, digital media, and nonverbal communication. It provides over 100 studies and references.

As individual institutions of education at all levels respond to the call for greater accountability and assessment, those who teach literacy face the challenging task of choosing what to measure and how to measure it.

In Contemporary times, the fundamental nature of literacy remains unchanged; it is for this reason that the lessons of 1880 to 1930 are still quite relevant.

This edited collection brings together well-known and emerging scholars in the field of Writing Studies, broadly defined, to explore the range of research methods and methodologies, the types of research questions asked, and the types of data in play in research about higher education writing in the 21st century

This collection offers support for instructors who are concerned about students' critical literacy abilities

Teaching and Race: How To Survive, Manage, and Even Encourage Race Talk provides an in-depth interdisciplinary analysis of some common student talk about race and manageable tools for responding to students.