Examines rhetorical practices in cultures and time periods that have received little attention to date.

Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.

Offers a thorough look at peer review in virtual environments.

Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.

Shows how battered women's personal theologies help them survive and heal, despite the women's knowledge that religion may also have contributed to their oppression.

Argues for a more theoretically-informed and cogent curricular space for rhetoric in the academy.

Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts.

Adds to our understanding of the powerful nature of texts and writing.

An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.

Extends the borders of essay scholarship by reading Latin American and Latino/a essayists alongside European and American ones.

Examines the relationships between language and nature.

Explores theoretical and pedagogical approaches to "resistance," showing how this concept plays out in the college writing classroom.

A rich array of interesting ways to teach personal writing critically and in settings where it has typically been excluded.

A cultural materialist critique of six key terms used in composition studies to define its work.

These "narralogues" combine story and argument, moving from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, and ultimately making the case that fiction is a medium for telling the truth.

Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.

Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property.

Proposes feminist research principles to assist in making informed decisions to address ethical dilemmas that arise in research and teaching.

A cultural history of the origins of composition studies that sheds new light on contemporary debates regarding the role of rhetoric in student transformation.

Presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers--their intertwined lives as professionals, feminists, writers, instructors, and colleagues.

Examines the relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge, within the academy in general and composition studies in particular.

Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.

Stressing the social dimensions of composing, this book inquires into the problems of interpreting and representing writers' talk in both academic and self directed writing groups, arguing for the value ...

This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward, in order to construct a suggestive conceptual framework for disrupting our conventional ...

Ecotone: Wayfaring on the Margins, a personal history of place, is written from the perspective of a teacher, naturalist, and feminist and uses the metaphor of the biological ecotone as the boundary where ...