Suggested Readings Supporting Use of Personal Writing

in Composition and Basic Writing Courses


Banks, William P. “Written through the Body: Disruptions and ‘Personal’ Writing.”
College English
66 (2003): 21-40.

Bishop, Wendy. “Places to Stand: The Reflective Writer-Teacher-Writer in Composition.” College Composition and Communication 51 (1999): 9-31.

Bloom, Lynn Z. “Finding a Family, Finding a Voice: A Writing Teacher Teaches Writing Teachers.” Journal of Basic Writing 9.2 (1990):3-14.

Brooke, Robert E. Writing and Sense of Self: Identity Negotiation in Writing Workshops. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1991.

Cody, Jim. “The Imprortance of Expressive Language in Preparing Basic Writers for College Writing.” Journal of Basic Writing 15.2 (1996): 95-111.

Connors, Robert. “Personal Writing Assignments.” College Composition and Communication 38 (1987): 166-83.

Dixon, Kathleen G. “Intellectual Development and the Place of Narrative in ‘Basic’ and Freshman Composition.” Journal of Basic Writing 8.1 (1989): 3-20.

Elbow, Peter. “Response.” College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 87-92.

---. “Silence: A Collage.” Presence of Mind: Writing and the Domain Beyond the Cognitive. Ed. Alice Glarden Brand and Richard L. Graves. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994. 9-20.

---. Writing without Teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.

Elliot, Norbert. “Narrative Discourse and the Basic Writer.” Journal of Basic Writing 14.2 (1995): 19-30.

Goldthwaite, Melissa A. “Confessionals.” College English 66 (2003): 55-73.

Hindman, Jane E. “Thoughts on Reading ‘the Personal’: Toward a Discursive Ethics of Professional Critical Literacy.” College English 66 (2003): 9-20.

Macrorie, Ken. Uptaught. Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden, 1970.

Moran, Molly Hurley. “Toward a Writing and Healing Approach in the Basic Writing Classroom: One Professor’s Personal Odyssey.” Journal of Basic Writing 23.2 (2004): 93-115.

Morgan, Dan. “Opinion: Ethical Issues Raised by Students’ Personal Writing.” College English 60 (1998): 318-25.

Murray, Donald M. “All Writing Is Autobiography.” College Composition and Communication 42 (1991): 66-74. Rpt. in Landmark Essays on Writing Process. Ed. Sondra Perl. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994. 207-16.

Nudelman, Jerrold, and Alvin H. Schlosser. “Experiential vs. Expository: Is Peaceful Coexistence Really Possible?” Teaching English in the Two-Year College (Fall 1981): 17-23.

Papoulis, Irene. “Subjectivity and its Role in ‘Constructed’ Knowledge: Composition, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalysis.” Into the Field: Sites of Composition Studies. New York: MLA, 1993.

Perl, Sondra. “Understanding Composing.” College Composition and Communication 31 (1980): 363-69.

Robillard, Amy E. “It’s Time for Class: Toward a More Complex Pedagogy of Narrative.” College English 66 (2003): 74-92.

Sommers, Nancy. “Between the Drafts.” College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 23-31.

Sullivan, Patricia A. “Composing Culture: A Place for the Personal.” College English 66 (2003): 41-54.

Tobin, Lad. Writing Relationships: What Really Happens in the Composition Class. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1993.

Welch, Nancy. “Revising a Writer’s Identity: Reading and ‘Re-modeling’ in a Composition Class.” College Composition and Communication 47 (1996): 41-61.

 

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