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1. Landmark Essays on Basic Writing

   Volume 18

   Edited by Kay Halasek, Nels P. Highberg

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   The essays selected for this volume address debilitating assumptions that place both students and teachers of basic writing, as well as the discipline itself, on the margins of educational, economic, and political localities of influence. The collection presents readers with previously published...

   Published April 30th 2001 by Routledge
2. Landmark Essays on ESL Writing

   Volume 17

   Edited by Tony Silva, Paul Kei Matsuda

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   In recent years, the number of nonnative speakers of English in colleges and universities in North America has increased dramatically. As a result, more and more writing teachers have found themselves working with these English as a Second Language (ESL) students in writing classes that are...

   Published December 31st 2000 by Routledge
3. Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature

   Volume 16

   Edited by Craig Kallendorf

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   The studies of rhetoric and literature have been closely connected on the theoretical level ever since antiquity, and many great works of literature were written by men and women who were well versed in rhetoric. It is therefore well worth investigating exactly what these writers knew about...

   Published December 31st 1998 by Routledge
4. Landmark Essays on Contemporary Rhetoric

   Volume 15

   Edited by Thomas B. Farrell

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   This work brings together the pivotal, scholarly essays responsible for the present resurgence in rhetorical studies. Assembled by one of the most respected senior scholars in the field of rhetoric, the essays chart a course from tradition-based theory of civic rhetoric to ongoing issues of...

   Published July 31st 1998 by Routledge
5. Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing

   Volume 13

   Edited by Frank Farmer

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   The essays in this collection give voice to the plurality of approaches that scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition have when they set forth to assimilate Bakhtin for their varied purposes. The collection is arranged in three major sections. The first attempts to capture the most...

   Published January 31st 1998 by Routledge
6. Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and the Environment

   Volume 12

   Edited by Craig Waddell

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   This volume presents some of the best essays yet published on rhetoric and the environment. The collection should appeal to an interdisciplinary audience, including those interested in rhetoric, especially rhetoric of science and/or the environment, environmental studies, and modern American...

   Published December 31st 1997 by Routledge
7. Landmark Essays on Aristotelian Rhetoric

   Volume 14

   Edited by Richard L. Enos, Lois P. Agnew

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   There is little doubt that Aristotle's Rhetoric has made a major impact on rhetoric and composition studies. This impact has not only been chronicled throughout the history of rhetoric, but has more recently been contested as contemporary rhetoricians reexamine Aristotelian rhetoric and its...

   Published December 31st 1997 by Routledge
8. Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies

   Volume 11

   Edited by Randy Allen Harris

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   Rhetoric of science is the study of how scientists persuade and dissuade each other and the rest of us about nature -- the study of how scientists argue in the making of knowledge. In fragmented form, it goes back as long as the two fields have existed, and it makes various appearances throughout...

   Published December 31st 1996 by Routledge
9. Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition

   Volume 10

   Edited by Gary A. Olson, Julie Drew

   Series: Landmark Essays Series

   As advanced composition continues to grow as an important sub-area of rhetoric and composition, it becomes increasingly more important for scholars and teachers to have access to key studies produced in the field. Providing a comprehensive overview of significant work on the theory and pedagogy of...

   Published February 29th 1996 by Routledge
10. Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Invention in Writing

    Volume 8

    Edited by Richard E. Young, Yameng Liu

    Series: Landmark Essays Series

    In the process of assembling this collection, the editors quickly realized that no group of a dozen and a half articles can adequately represent the developments in modern rhetorical invention, even when the choices are restricted to articles on invention in writing. The articles selected for...

    Published October 31st 1995 by Routledge