Reviews three books: Class Politics: The Movement for the Students’ Right to Their Own Language, by Stephen Parks; (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology, and Pedagogy, edited by Xin Liu Gale and Fredric G. Gale; Exploring Literature: Writing and Thinking about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, by Frank Madden.

A Group of Their Own: College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, 1880–1940, by Katherine H. Adams; Everyone Can Write: Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing, by Peter Elbow; Teaching Composition as a Social Process, by Bruce McComiskey.