This article analyzes how public policymakers responded to CCCC's 1988 National Language Policy. While many treated CCCC as a leading critic of English-only policies, others interpreted the organization to be more of a hesitant critic, or even an outright ally of the English-only movement. Rather than cede rhetorical ground to monolingual…

In this essay, the author aims to show how a specific focus on interactionally emergent and rhetorically negotiated elements of a communicative situation can enrich the study of difference in composition research. She develops this argument by first identifying two strategies used by writing researchers when forwarding new understandings of…

In this article, we argue that prior learning assessment (PLA) essays manifest a series of issues central to composition research and practice: they foreground the "contact zone" between the unauthorized writer, institutional power, and the articulation of knowledge claims; they reinforce the central role of a multifaceted approach to…

Discusses four of Weaver's ideas that the teacher of communication might stress for students as producers and consumers of communication. (DD)

Uses figurative language to contrast the values of the Indian culture with the culture which replaced it in America. (RB)

Examines James Kinneavy's "A Theory of Discourse," contending that Kinneavy isolates the communication triangle of self-expression as Being-for-Itself, Being-for-Others, and Being-in-the World, into three separate kinds of texts, ignoring the key element underlying the philosophical positions that generated this triangle--time. (HTH)

Focuses on the "publicly authored" Internet spaces on the World Wide Web. Explores how these generative texts negotiate the odd interplay of fixity and fluidity online, an interplay that at once suggests both the presence of a coherent feminist community-through-text and the inadequacy of coherence as a textual principle. (SG)

Text of a speech given at the NCTE convention; a tongue-in-cheek Scriptural basis'' for the teaching of English. (SP)

Discusses how freshman English separated from other courses. Considers many different points of view regarding the development of freshman English versus composition and communication. Ponders what composition would be like in the last half century had it incorporated communication. Concludes that when freshman English won the "Turf…

Discusses the beginning of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and how it provided a glimpse of the natural alliance between composition and communication. Describes how the early CCCC over time began to gain more composition than communication participants. Concludes that communication cannot be abandoned completely, and it…

Considers how the Conduit Metaphor of language and communication has been roundly condemned by language scholars, including scholars in rhetoric and composition. Notes that it is time to reevaluate its importance and value. Notes that the Conduit Metaphor combines with the metaphor Language Is Power to form a prudentially applied ethical measure…

Suggests that effectiveness of a given written work can be judged by how well the writer recognizes what the reader already knows and how well the writer provides the reader with new information. (DD)

Suggests that an undergraduate writing course which focuses on the literature of anthropology and intercultural communication can effectively teach anthropology, writing, and the philosophy of rhetoric. (DD)

The views of Aristotle, Plato and other philosophers toward rhetoric are examined in a plea to elevate rhetoric to a true science. (HTH)