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March 1990

  1. Review essays
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    John Paul Russo. I. A. Richards: His Life and Work. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. 843 pages. Robert J. Connors, ed., Selected Essays of Edward P. J. Corbett. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1989. xxii + 359. W. Ross Winterowd, The Culture and Politics of Literacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 226 pages. Booth, Wayne C. The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xii + 557 pages. Chris Anderson, ed., Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, pp. xxvi + 337, 1989.

    doi:10.1080/07350199009388907
  2. Cultural literacy, curricular reform, and freshman composition
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    (1990). Cultural literacy, curricular reform, and freshman composition. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 270-278.

    doi:10.1080/07350199009388899
  3. The circular journey and the natural authority of form
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    (1990). The circular journey and the natural authority of form. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 208-219.

    doi:10.1080/07350199009388894
  4. Divisioas em‐/de‐powering topic: A basis for argument in rhetoric and composition1
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    (1990). Divisio as em‐/de‐powering topic: A basis for argument in rhetoric and composition. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 191-205.

    doi:10.1080/07350199009388893
  5. Taking practitioner inquiry seriously: An argument with Stephen North
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    (1990). Taking practitioner inquiry seriously: An argument with Stephen North. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 260-267.

    doi:10.1080/07350199009388898
  6. Rhetoric in a new key: Women and collaboration
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    (1990). Rhetoric in a new key: Women and collaboration. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 234-241.

    doi:10.1080/07350199009388896
  7. Feminist responses to Rogerian argument
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    (1990). Feminist responses to Rogerian argument. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 220-232.

    doi:10.1080/07350199009388895
  8. Writing and feelings: Checking our vital signs
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    (1990). Writing and feelings: Checking our vital signs. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 290-308.

    doi:10.1080/07350199009388901

September 1989

  1. Review essays
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    Edward M. White, Developing Successful College Writing Programs. Foreword by Richard Lloyd‐Jones. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 1989. xxii + 232 pages. Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Composition as a Human Science: Contributions to the Self‐Understanding of a Discipline. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xiii + 268 pages. Louise Z. Smith, ed., Audits of Meaning: A Festschrift in Honor of Ann E. Berthoff. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, Heinemann, 1988. Foreword by Paulo Freire. xv + 264 pages. Jasper Neel, Plato, Derrlda, and Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. 252 pages. Brian Vickers, In Defence of Rhetoric. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1988. xi + 508 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388888
  2. Mr. Darwin and his readers: Exploring interpersonal metadiscourse as a dimension ofethos
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    (1989). Mr. Darwin and his readers: Exploring interpersonal metadiscourse as a dimension of ethos. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 91-112.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388880
  3. Whole brains, half brains, and writing
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    (1989). Whole brains, half brains, and writing. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 127-136.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388882
  4. Disciplines and communities, “armies” and “monasteries,” and the teaching of composition
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    (1989). Disciplines and communities, “armies” and “monasteries,” and the teaching of composition. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 137-146.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388883
  5. Conflict in collaboration: A burkean perspective
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    (1989). Conflict in collaboration: A burkean perspective. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 113-126.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388881
  6. Attitudes toward imitation: Classical culture and the modern temper
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    (1989). Attitudes toward imitation: Classical culture and the modern temper. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 5-21.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388875
  7. Francis bacon and the historiography of scientific rhetoric
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    (1989). Francis bacon and the historiography of scientific rhetoric. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 74-88.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388879

March 1989

  1. Review essays
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    Richard Leo Enos, The Literate Mode of Cicero's Legal Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. xii + 127 pages. George Campbell, The Philosophy of Rhetoric, ed. Lloyd F. Bitzer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. Ixxvi + 415 pages. Jasper Neel, Plato, Derrida, and Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. 252 pages. William A. Covino, The Art of Wondering: A Revisionist Return to the History of Rhetoric. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook; Heinemann, I988. 141 pages. Bruce A: Kimball, Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education. Foreword by Joseph L. Featherstone. Columbia University: Teachers College Press, 1986. 293 pages. Jean‐François Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition: A Report On Knowledge. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Foreword by Frederick Jameson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. 110 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388871
  2. Hunting forethoswhere they say it can't be found
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    (1989). Hunting for ethos where they say it can't be found. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 299-316.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388863
  3. A girl in ninth grade English,A poem
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    (1989). A girl in ninth grade English, A poem. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 382-383.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388870
  4. Rhetorical history as a component of composition studies
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    (1989). Rhetorical history as a component of composition studies. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 230-240.

    doi:10.1080/07350198909388858

September 1988

  1. On the outside looking in: Students' analyses of professional discourse communities
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    (1988). On the outside looking in: Students' analyses of professional discourse communities. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 130-149.

    doi:10.1080/07350198809388844
  2. Review essays
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    Winifred Bryan Homer, Rhetoric in the Classical Tradition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. xvii + 462 pages. Ira Shor, ed., Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, Heinemann, 1987. Afterword by Paulo Freire. 237 pages. Erika Lindemann, Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric: 1984–1985. Longman, 1987. xviii + 318 pages. Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric: 1986. Longman, 1988. xv + 249 pages. Richard M. Coe, Toward a Grammar of Passages. CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. 123 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198809388850

March 1988

  1. Reader‐response and thepathosprinciple
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    (1988). Reader‐response and the pathos principle. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 152-166.

    doi:10.1080/07350198809359160
  2. Review essays
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    Gary Tate, ed., Teaching Composition: Twelve Bibliographical Essays. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1987. xiv + 434 pages. Stephen M. North, The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1987. 403 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198809359166

September 1987

  1. Creating a literate environment in Freshman English: Why and how
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    (1987). Creating a literate environment in Freshman English: Why and how. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 4-20.

    doi:10.1080/07350198709359149
  2. A perspective on Eagleton's revival of rhetoric
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    (1987). A perspective on Eagleton's revival of rhetoric. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 22-31.

    doi:10.1080/07350198709359150
  3. For a modern rhetoric: A prose‐poetic persuasion
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    (1987). For a modern rhetoric: A prose‐poetic persuasion. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 87-89.

    doi:10.1080/07350198709359155
  4. The first sophists and the uses of history
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    (1987). The first sophists and the uses of history. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 67-78.

    doi:10.1080/07350198709359153
  5. Review essays
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    Karen Burke LeFevre, Invention as a Social Act CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. 173 pages. Carol P. Hartzog, Composition and the Academy: A Study of Writing Program Administration. New York: MLA, 1986. xviii + 166 pages. Walter H. Beale, A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1987. 171 pages. James A. Berlin, Writing Instruction in Nineteenth‐Century American Colleges. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.92 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198709359157

March 1987

  1. Review essays
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    Donald Stewart, The Versatile Writer. Lexington: D. C. Heath, 1986. 381 pages. Sentence Combining: A Rhetorical Perspective. Ed. Donald A. Daiker, Andrew Kerek, and Max Morenberg. Southern Illinois University Press, 1985, xxi + 386 pages. Beverly L. Clark, Talking about Writing: A Guide for Tutor and Teacher Conferences. The University of Michigan Press, 1985. 225 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198709359147
  2. The status of composition faculty: Resolving reforms
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    (1987). The status of composition faculty: Resolving reforms. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 190-193.

    doi:10.1080/07350198709359144
  3. Entitling Kenneth Burke
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    In The New York Times Book Review of March 15, 1981, Richard Kostelanetz described Kenneth Burke as implacably American, citing in evidence Harold Bloom's earlier assertion that Burke was strongest living representative of the American Critical tradition, and perhaps the largest single source of that tradition since its founder, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1 1). Others too have seen Burke as vintage American: Merle Brown, for example, who wrote sixteen years ago that Burke, like John Dewey and Van Wyck Brooks, was clearly the man of the American 20s who sought to close the gap he saw widening then between the specialists and the masses (8-9);' and, more recently, Bloom's Yale colleague Angus Fletcher, who, in his English Institute essay, sees Burke as the American individualist and romantic hero:

    doi:10.1080/07350198709359145

September 1986

  1. Review essays
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    Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper. The St. Martin's Guide to Writing. 687 pages. New Directions in Composition Research. Ed. Richard Beach and Lillian S. Bridwell. Perspectives in Writing Research 1. The Guilford Press, 1984. 418 pages. The Process Reader. Ed. Richard Ray, Gary A. Olson, and James DeGeorge. Prentice‐Hall, 1985. 437 pages. Teaching College Students to Read Analytically. Jan Cooper, Rick Evans, and Elizabeth Robertson. NCTE, 1985. 58 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198609359141
  2. Why write . . . together: A research update∗
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    (1986). Why write . . . together: A research update. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 71-81.

    doi:10.1080/07350198609359137
  3. Intertextuality and the discourse community
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    (1986). Intertextuality and the discourse community. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 34-47.

    doi:10.1080/07350198609359131

January 1986

  1. This is not a review of Foucault'sThis is not a pipe1
    doi:10.1080/07350198609359124
  2. Review essays
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    James L. Kinneavy, William McCleary, and Neil Nakadate. Writing in the Liberal Arts Tradition: A Rhetoric with Readings. Harper & Row, 1985. Pp. xvii + 395. Cloth. Instructor's manual. Marian M. Mohr, Revision: The Rhythm of Meaning. Boynton/Cook, 1984. 248 pages. Lynn Z. Bloom, Fact and Artifact: Writing Nonfiction. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985. 337 pages. Research in Composition and Rhetoric: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. Ed. Michael G. Moran and Ronald F. Lunsford. Greenwood Press, 1984. 506 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198609359127
  3. The Perry scheme and the teaching of writing
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    (1986). The Perry scheme and the teaching of writing. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 152-158.

    doi:10.1080/07350198609359117

September 1985

  1. Review essays
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    Donald M. Murray, Write to Learn. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. 229 pages. What Makes Writing Good: A Multiperspective. Ed. William E. Coles, Jr., and James Vopat. D. C. Heath and Company, 1985. xxiii + 360 pages. Leonard A. Podis and Joanne M. Podis, Writing: Invention, Form, and Style. Scott, Foresman and Company, 1984. 558 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198509359113
  2. Argument as emergence, rhetoric as love
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    (1985). Argument as emergence, rhetoric as love. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 16-32.

    doi:10.1080/07350198509359100
  3. Multicultural literacy for faculty: Accommodating non‐native speakers of English in content courses
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    (1985). Multicultural literacy for faculty: Accommodating non‐native speakers of English in content courses. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 100-107.

    doi:10.1080/07350198509359111
  4. Designing a case study method for tutorials: A prelude to research
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    (1985). Designing a case study method for tutorials: A prelude to research. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 88-97.

    doi:10.1080/07350198509359109
  5. Romantic rhetoric for the modern student: The psycho‐rhetorical approach of Wordsworth and Coleridge
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    (1985). Romantic rhetoric for the modern student: The psycho‐rhetorical approach of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 64-79.

    doi:10.1080/07350198509359107

January 1985

  1. Review essays
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    Abstract Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse, ed. Robert J. Connors, Lisa S. Ede, and Andrea A. Lunsford (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1984). 291 pages. Student Writers at Work: The Bedford Prizes, edited by Nancy Sommers and Donald McQuade (Boston: Bedford Books, 1984). James M. McCrimmon, Writing With a Purpose, 8th edition by Joseph F. Trimmer and Nancy I. Sommers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984). 752 pp. Joyce S. Steward and Marjorie Smelstor, Writing in the Social Sciences. Scott, Foresman and Company, 1984. 340 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198509359097
  2. Writing‐across‐the‐curriculum textbooks: A bibliographic essay
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    (1985). Writing‐across‐the‐curriculum textbooks: A bibliographic essay. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 202-217.

    doi:10.1080/07350198509359094
  3. The nature of “audience” editor's note
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    (1985). The nature of “audience” editor's note. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 218-219.

    doi:10.1080/07350198509359095

September 1984

  1. The birth of molecular biology: An essay in the rhetorical criticism of scientific discourse
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    (1984). The birth of molecular biology: An essay in the rhetorical criticism of scientific discourse. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 70-83.

    doi:10.1080/07350198409359083
  2. The way of a large house: Synthesis in teaching composition
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    (1984). The way of a large house: Synthesis in teaching composition. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 4-12.

    doi:10.1080/07350198409359072
  3. Review essays
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    C. H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon, Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing. Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1984. 171 pages. Composition and Literature: Bridging the Gap. Ed. Winifred Bryan Horner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. New Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication: Research, Theory, Practice. Ed. Paul V. Anderson, R. John Brockmann, and Carolyn R. Miller. Baywood's Technical Communications Series: Volume 2. Farmingdale, NY: Bay wood Publishing Co., 1983. 254 pages. Persuasive Messages, Ruth Anne Clark. New York: Harper & Row 1984. vi + 250 pages.

    doi:10.1080/07350198409359085
  4. Confessions of a writer: The art of Richard Selzer
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    (1984). Confessions of a writer: The art of Richard Selzer. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 84-98.

    doi:10.1080/07350198409359084
  5. Going public: A case for reading aloud in the classroom
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    (1984). Going public: A case for reading aloud in the classroom. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 58-64.

    doi:10.1080/07350198409359080