Possibilities for Annotated
Bibliography - An Incomplete List.
(Keep in mind I will help
you find sources; the main thing that you should think about for the time being
is what seems most interesting to you.)
1.
The History of Writing instruction
2.
Connections between prominent rhetoricians and contemporary writing
instruction
3. Writing and Technology
A.
Differences between "oral" and "literate" thinking (Ong,
McLuhan, etc.)
B. Computers and
Composition
C.
Rhetorics of Cyberspace
D. Visual Rhetorics
4. What is Academic Writing, and How Does it Differ from "Regular" Writing?
5. Poststructuralist influences in Contemporary Composition (Derrida, Foucault, etc.)
6.
Gender and Writing
A. Feminist Models
of Teaching
B. Gender
Differences in Language Use
C. "Writing
the Body" (Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva, etc.)
D. Autobiography
as Feminist Form
7. Composition Teaching and Politics/Cultural Studies (Bizzell, Priere, Schilb, Faigley)
8.
Theories and Practice of Collaborative Learning
9. Ethnography - The Naturalistic Study of Writing in Various Fields
10.
Rhetorics and Ethnicity
A. African-American
Rhetoric
B.
Native American Rhetoric
C. Asian Rhetoric
D. Latino/a Rhetoric
11. Writing in the workplace (medicine, law, business, science, etc. etc. etc.)
12. Writing Across the Curriculum
B. Administering WAC
13. The Composing Process
A.
Models of the C.P.
1.
Expressivist (Elbow, Murray)
2.
Cognitive (Flower, Hayes, Haas)
3.
Social (Berlin, Cooper, Bizzell, Halasek, etc.)
B. Stages
of the C.P.
1.
Invention
2.
Arrangement
3.
Style, Grammar, Usage
4. Revision
14. Considerations of Audience in the Writing Process
15. Models of Argumentative Writing
16. Responding to Writing
17.
Composition and Literature
18.
Basic and Developmental Writing
19.
Writing with Advanced Students
20. English as a Second Language Writers
21. Writing Centers/Tutoring Writing
22. Teaching Creative Writing
23. Linguistics and Writing