Many of these texts are final versions I sent to the publisher--and thus lack some final copying and are not in publication format. --About the unpublished essays: I welcome responses, thoughts, suggetions.
Articles
Coming to See Myself as a Vernacular Intellectual, College Composition and Communication (2008)
A short essay taken from remarks at the annual 2007 convention on getting the Exemplar...
Voice in Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, College English (2007)
"Voice in writing" has fallen into a kind of limbo as a topic: it's vexed;...
Should We Invite Students to Write in Home Languages? Complicating the Yes/No Debate, Composition Studies (2007)
The Music of Form, College Composition and Communication (2006)
The concept itself of "organization" tends to be biased towards a picture of how...
Foreword: "When the Margins are at the Center", From the book entitled: Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education / edited by Shondel J. Nero. (2006)
Unpublished Papers
A Unilateral Grading Contract to Improve Learning and Teaching [co-written with Jane Danielewicz] (2008)
Regular grading is a problem for many reasons--but most of all because it so often...
The Believing Game--Methodological Believing (2008)
A defintion of the believing and doubting games; a thumbnail idealized history of believing and...
Why Deny Speakers of African American Language a Choice Most of Us Offer Other Students? (2008)
Mainstream teachers commonly invite mainstream students to freewrite and use very informal language for early...
Vernacular Literacy (2006)
How our present culture of literacy serves to exclude many many potential writers--and why changing...