Required Texts:

Murphy, James, ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Modern America. 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press/LEA, 2001.

Villanueva, Victor, ed. Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2003.

Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004.

Suggested Texts:

Sirc, Geoffrey. English Composition as a Happening. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002.

Crowley, Sharon. Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. Pittsburgh, PA: U Pittsburgh P, 1998.

Lindemann, E. and G. Tate, eds. Introduction to Composition Studies. New York: Oxford U P, 1991.