David Holmes’s Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize asks readers to attend to the frequently overlooked rhetoric of key speakers during the 1963 Birmingham mass meetings that contributed to the s...

In this review, the author discusses two books that attend to the variety of ways in which the geography of a writing program affects how writing is managed and taught.

The first and only time I ever heard Martin Luther King speak I was a college undergraduate. It was in the early sixties and I sat mesmerized in the upper tier of what was then the Charlotte (North...

What do we want students to know, what do we want them to have after completing a series of courses in college English? College English ought to provide students with certain communicative that enable them to ana lyze rhetorical effect and produce rhetorically effective texts, including those to be read, those to be viewed as images, those to be heard, and those not to be heard. Especially exciting is the expanding body of knowledge centered on visual, aural, and silent texts. Within the past five years, new books on visual rhetoric, the rhetoric of silence, and the rhetoric of listening have joined guides to analysis and production of printed texts (see, e.g., Faigley et al.; Glenn; Ratcliffe). This trend signals increasing recognition of the need to develop nondiscursive communication skills, that college English should engage itself in perfecting. I use the term skills unapologetically. Although many in English studies are uncomfortable with the idea that we should teach skills?claiming instead that we teach texts or au thors?I think it is just the right word. Ultimately what students remember about

The undergraduate English curriculum should move well beyond study of the traditional Eurocentric literary canon. It should help students participate in society by teaching them how to communicate across various languages, discourses, and media.

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An earlier version of this article was delivered as the Chair’s Address at the Opening General Session of the CCCC convention in New York, March 2003. I review the current mission and position statements of the organization by calling attention to the ways in which our current social and political climate challenges our ability to meet our goals and support our positions. I weave into my text the “voices” of historical black women who called for response in their own time and even in ours.