Ashley Rea
DISCIPLINARY RESOURCES
IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION
The following is a list of disciplinary specific links for students in my rhetoric and composition classes, arranged topically.
Introduction to Composition: Theory and Practice
On the Practice of Writing
10 Ways to Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students by E. Shelley Reid
Shitty First Drafts from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Composition as a Write of Passage by Nathalie Signh-Corcoran
Practical Writing Advice
Real-World Writing: Making Purpose and Audience Matter by Grant Wiggins
Annoying Ways People Use Sources by Kyle D. Stedman
How to Write an Engaging Introduction by Jennifer Janecheck
Provide Metalanguage to Highlight your Organization by Joe Moxley
How to Write a Compelling Conclusion by Jennifer Yirinec
Peer Review Resources
Peer Review Matters: Creating Effective Peer Review by M. Kilian McCurrie
Responding--Really Responding--to Other Students' Writing by Richard Straub
Writers on Revising by Joe Moxley
Genre Theory
Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptions of an Old Concept by Amy J. Devitt
Navigating Genres by Kerry Dirk
Rhetorical Theory
The Rhetorical Situation by Lloyd F. Bitzer
The Rhetoric of Rhetoric by Wayne C. Booth
Teaching for Transfer
Reflection in the Writing Classroom by Kathleen Blake Yancey
Multimodality and Digital Composition
Introducing Multimodality, Mediation, and Remix
The Medium is the Message from Understanding Media: Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
Plagiarism, Originality, Assemblage by Stuart Selber and Johndan Johnson-Eiola
A Multimodal Task-Based Framework for Composing by Jody Shipka
The Movement of Air, The Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing by Cynthia Selfe
Re-Inventing Digital Delivery for Multimodal Composing: A Theory and Heuristic for Composition Pedagogy by Chanon Adsanathama, Bre Garrett, and Aurora Matzkec
Nondiscursive Rhetoric : Image and Affect in Multimodal Composition by Joddy Murray
Remixing Composition : A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy by Jason Palmeri
Tools and Tutorials for Multimodal Compositions
(Note: Program Labels are linked to useful tutorials from other scholars and designers.)