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Volume 12 Number 1, Fall/Winter 2001
Interview
- Beyond Bootstraps: A Conversation with Victor Villanueva (pp. 4-23)
Victor Villanueva is Professor of
English and Chair of the Department of English at Washington State University,
where he was previously the Director of Composition. Editor of Cross Talk
in Comp Theory: A Graduate Reader, Villanueva is also the author of Bootstraps,
From an American Academic of Color, a book which broke ground in rhetoric
and composition studies by combining the personal with the analytic and is now
widely used in training courses for future teachers of college composition. He
was Chair of the 1998 Conference on College Composition and Communication
(CCCC), the first of the conferences to have an Hispanic theme—Ideas, Historia
y Cuentos: Breaking With Precedent. Winner of several national research awards,
such as Rhetorician of the Year, he also received WSU’s Martin Luther King, Jr.
Distinguished Service Award for Faculty and has been recognized by graduate
students for his mentorship and support. On 7 November, 2001, IW Editors Mark
Balhorn, Wade Mahon, and Rebecca Stephens of the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point spoke with Villanueva by telephone.—Eds.
Articles
- Caught in the Grammar Cross Fire: One Student’s Plea and
Plan for Peace. Susan Marquardt
Blystone (pp. 24-43)
Abstract: Incorporating grammar into collegiate composition courses seems an impossible task, as faculty are criticized regardless of what is taught and how. This criticism stems from the public’s perception that faculty have failed both their students and society by excluding traditional grammar lessons. Faculty members can quiet the public’s lament that grammar has been wrongly eliminated by making those outside academia aware of research that indicates such lessons actually impede writers. Faculty can and must counter their critics by publicizing the various and improved ways grammar is now introduced in composition courses, providing evidence that demonstrates the effectiveness of today’s pedagogy.
- A Classical
Framework for a New “Visual Renaissance”: Bridging the Divide between the
Written and the Visual in Computer-Based Composition. Andrea Deacon (pp. 44-69)
Abstract: Despite a renewed recognition of the importance of visual design and its connection to computer-based composition,1 there are few pedagogical models in professional communication and composition studies that practically convey to students the theoretical reciprocity between the written and the visual. This article suggests that students will benefit from composing, organizing, and assessing their computer-based compositions, hypertext projects in particular, within the fuller framework of the five rhetorical canons: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Although these are “classical” canons, their origin in an oral and performative culture make them suitable heuristics for both the written and the visual elements of computer-based composition.
Reviews
Understanding Writing Blocks, by Keith Hjortshoj
Reviewed by Deborah Anne Hooker (pp. 70-73)
I-Writing: The Politics and Practice of Teaching First-Person Writing, by Karen Surman Paley
Reviewed by Alvin H. F. Smith (pp. 73-82)
Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America, by John McWhorter
Reviewed by Elaine E. Whitaker (pp. 82-83)
Learning To Rival: A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry, by Linda Flower, Elenore Long, and Lorraine Higgins
Reviewed by C. M. Tremonte (pp. 83-89)
Writing Across Languages, edited by Gerd Bräuer
Reviewed by Susan H. McLeod (pp. 89-93)
Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Theory, Research, and Practice, edited by Christine Farris and Chris M. Anson
Reviewed by Jennifer Mattix (pp. 93-97)
Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing, by Jim Henry
Reviewed by Cezar M. Ornatowski (pp. 97-102)
A Concise Guide to Technical Communication, by Laura J. Gurak and John M. Lannon
Reviewed by David Alan Sapp (pp. 102-07)
Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition, by David Coogan
Reviewed by James H. Wilson (pp. 107-09)
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