CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1991 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080931892X ISBN 13: 9780809318926

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993

Synopsis

The CCCCBibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, offers teachers and researchers an annual classified listing of scholarship on written English and its teaching at the college level. The 1991 volume lists and annotates 1,925 articles, books, dissertations, and papers that, with few exceptions, were published during the 1991 calendar year. A group of 171 contributing bibliographers prepared the citations and annotations for the entries appearing in this volume. The CCCCBibliography includes an index of authors and editors, a subject index, and entries cross-referenced according to subject matter.

Considerably more comprehensive than other bibliographies in composition studies, the CCCCBibliography of Compositionand Rhetoric draws upon a large group of experts in the field to aid teachers and researchers in sorting through a vast body of interdisciplinary material, making their work easier and more effective.

Annotations accompany all entries in this volume. They describe a publication’s contents and are intended to help users determine its usefulness. Annotations are brief and, insofar as the English language allows, are meant to be descriptive, not evaluative—they explain what an entry is about while leaving readers free to judge for themselves the work’s merits. Most annotations serve one of three functions: they present the document’s thesis, main argument, or major research finding; they describe the work’s major organizational divisions; or they indicate the purpose or scope of the work. The subject index lists most of the topics discussed in the works cited in this volume. Consulting the Subject Index will help users locate sections and subsections containing large numbers of entries addressing the same topic.

Each document is cited and annotated only once under one of the five major sections of the CCCCBibliography. Each entry, however, receives an "entry number" so that cross-references to other sections are possible. This feature is especially useful because much scholarship in composition and rhetoric is interdisciplinary in nature. Cross-references appear as a listing of entry numbers, preceded by "See also," found at the end of each subsection.

Entries appear under five major categories: bibliographies and checklists; theory and research; teacher education, administration, and social roles; curriculum; and testing, measurement, and evaluation. Although the CCCCBibliography excludes master’s theses, textbooks, computer software, and book reviews from its coverage, it furnishes citations to review essays, articles appearing in some 220 journals, scholarly monographs and essay collections, dissertations abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International, and selected documents and conference materials available through ERIC.

About this title

About the Author

Gail E. Hawisher is an associate professor of English and the director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Cynthia L. Selfe is a professor of composition and communication in the Humanities Department at Michigan Technological University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080931892X
• ISBN 13: 9780809318926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Hawisher Gail E., Selfe Cynthia L.