College Composition and Communication, Vol. 42, No. 2, May 1991

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Berkenkotter, Carol. “Paradigm Debates, Turf Wars, and the Conduct of Sociocognitive Inquiry in Composition.” CCC 42.2 (1991): 151-169.

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Keywords:

ccc42.2 Research Composition Language Cognitive Knowledge Study Community Categories Methods Rhetoric Writing Culture Field

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Berkenkotter, Carol. “The Legacy of Positivism in Empirical Composition Research.” Journal of Advanced Composition 9 (1989): 69-82.

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—. “Social Contexts and Socially Constructed Texts: The Initiation of a Graduate Student into a Writing Research Community.” Textual Dynamics of the Professions. Ed. Charles Bazer­man and James Paradis. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991. Forthcoming.

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Cooper, Marilyn M., and Michael Holzman. Writing as Social Action. Portsmouth: Boynton, 1989.

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Peterson, Linda H. “Gender and the Autobiographical Essay: Research Perspectives, Pedagogical Practices.” CCC 42.2 (1991): 170-183.

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Keywords:

ccc42.2 Students Writing Autobiography Women Essays Gender Men Experience Teachers Significance Assignments Self Patterns Topics

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Herrington, Anne J., and Deborah Cadman. “Peer Review and Revising in an Anthropology Course: Lessons for Learning.” CCC 42.2 (1991): 184-199.

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Keywords:

ccc42.2 Students Writing Drafts PeerReview Papers Courses Anthropology Comments Research Data

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Vipond, Douglas, and Russell A. Hunt. “The Strange Case of the Queen-Post Truss: John McPhee on Writing and Reading.” CCC 42.2 (1991): 200-210.

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Keywords:

ccc42.2 JMcPhee QueenPostTruss Reader Writing Forest People GypsyMoth

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Sieminski, Greg C. “Couching Our Cutting with Compassion.” CCC 42.2 (1991): 211-217.

Morrow, Diane Stelzer. “Tutoring Writing: Healing or What?” CCC 42.2 (1991): 218-229.

Schriner, Delores K., and Matthew Willen. “The Facts on Facts: Adaptations to a Reading and Writing Course.” CCC 42.2 (1991): 230-238.

Robinson, William S. “Response to Gary Sloan, ‘Frequency of Errors in Essays by College Freshmen and by Professional Writers.'” CCC 42.2 (1991): 239-240.

Sloan, Gary. “Reply by Gary Sloan.” CCC 42.2 (1991): 240-241.

Bloom, Lynn. Rev. of CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1988 by Erika Lindemann and Mary Beth Harding. CCC 42.2 (1991): 242-244.

McClure, Lisa. Rev. of Research in Basic Writing: A Bibliographic Sourcebook by Michael G. Moran and Martin J. Jacobi. CCC 42.2 (1991): 244-246.

Rose, Shirley K. Rev. of The Writing Teacher as Researcher: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Class-Based Research by Donald A. Daiker; Max Morenberg. CCC 42.2 (1991): 246-248.

Troyka, Lynn Quitman. Rev. of Personality and the Teaching of Composition by George H. Jensen and John K. DiTiberio. CCC 42.2 (1991): 248-250.

Lamb, Catherine E. Rev. of Farther Along: Transforming Dichotomies in Rhetoric and Composition by Kate Ronald and Hephzibah Roskelly. CCC 42.2 (1991): 250-251.

Bernhardt, Stephen A. Rev. of Writing Better Computer User Documentation: From Paper to Hypertext by R. John Brockmann; Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Help Files to Hypertext by William K. Horton. CCC 42.2 (1991): 252-254.

Crusius, Timothy W. Rev. of Modern Rhetorical Criticism by Roderick P. Hart. CCC 42.2 (1991): 254-256.

Farrell, Thomas J. Rev. of Oral and Written Communication: Historical Approaches by Richard Leo Enos. CCC 42.2 (1991): 256-258.

Enos, Richard Leo. Rev. of The Older Sophists by Rosamond Kent Sprague. CCC 42.2 (1991): 258-259.

Bridges, Charles W. Rev. of The Student’s Guide to Good Writing: Building Writing Skills for Success in College by Rick Dalton and Marianne Dalton. CCC 42.2 (1991): 259-261.