This section of the web resource offers a brief look at a variety of current composition textbooks. To nominate your favorite textbook, email kimberly.emmons@case.edu.
The following textbooks represent some of the major scholarly traditions and topical interests of composition scholars. Click on the texbook entries for more details, including sample writing prompts.
Scholarly Tradition
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Textbook Bibliographic Information
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| Academic Discourse |
Bartholomae, David, and Anthony Petrosky. Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers. 5th ed. Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
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| Argument/Civic Discourse |
Goshgarian, Gary, Kathleen Krueger, and Janet Barnett Minc. Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2003.
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| Classical Rhetoric |
Corbett, Edward P.J., and Robert Connors. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 4th ed. Oxford/New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
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| Current-Traditional Rhetoric |
Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell. Patterns for College Writers: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 9th ed. Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004.
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| Expressivist |
Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers. London/New York: Oxford UP, 1973.
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| Genre Theory |
Devitt, Amy, Mary Jo Reiff, and Anis Bawarshi. Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004.
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| Grammar & Style |
Kolln, Martha. Rhetorical Grammar. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2003.
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| Language Diversity |
Goshgarian, Gary. Exploring Language. 10th ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004.
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| Process Theories (General) |
Bishop, Wendy. On Writing: A Process Approach. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2004. |
| Process Theories (Cognitive) |
Flower, Linda. Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing in College and Community. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998.
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| Service Learning |
Deans, Thomas. Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric with Readings. New York: Longman, 2003.
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| Visual Rhetoric |
Faigley, Lester, Diana George, Anna Palchik, Cynthia Selfe. Picturing Texts. New York/London: W.W.Norton & Company, 2004.
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| WAC/WID |
Kirscht, Judy, and Mark Schlenz. Engaging Inquiry: Research and Writing in the Disciplines. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
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