The Norton Book of Composition Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393931358 ISBN 13: 9780393931358

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

Synopsis

A landmark collection by one of the field’s most distinguished scholars, The Norton Book of Composition Studies introduces new students to the historical development and most consequential themes and emphases of the field’s scholarship.

An indispensable resource for every scholar in the field―both as textbook and as professional reference.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Miller (Ph.D. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) is professor of English and a faculty member in the University of Utah Writing Program. She has directed composition programs at The Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and was founding director of Utah's Writing Program. She has written many award-winning monographs: Rescuing the Subject: An Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer won the JAC award for best book. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition won the JAC award for best book and two others―the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for best theoretical book and the NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award. Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Ordinary Writing was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book and shared the NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award. She has also written four textbooks for first-year composition courses and published with first-year students a CCC article about cross-curricular student underlife.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0393931358
• ISBN 13: 9780393931358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1750
• Editor: Miller Susan