Articles

PDF

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...
 

PDF

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;...
 

Link

Should We Invite Students to Write in Home Languages? Complicating the Yes/No Debate, Composition Studies (2007)
 

PDF

The Music of Form, College Composition and Communication (2006)
The concept itself of "organization" tends to be biased towards a picture of how...
 

Link

Foreword: "When the Margins are at the Center", From the book entitled: Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education / edited by Shondel J. Nero. (2006)
 

Link

"The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful", From the book entitled: Nurturing the Peacemakers in Our Students: A Guide to Teaching Peace, Empathy, and Understanding / edited by Chris Weber. (2006)
 

Link

"A Friendly Challenge to Push the Outcomes Statement Further", From the book entitled: The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus after the WPA Outcomes Statement (2005)
 

Link

Bringing the Rhetoric of Assent and the Believing Game Together - and Into the Classroom, College English (2005)
To Wayne Booth‘s argument for assent, I assent. I will explore our large agreement, our...
 

Link

"How to Enhance Learning by Using High-Stakes and Low-Stakes Writing" (with Mary Deane Sorcinelli), From the book entitled: McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers.12th ed. (2005)
 

Link

Write First: Putting Writing before Reading is an Effective Approach to Teaching and Learning, Educational Leadership (2004)
The phrase “reading and writing” reflects the implicit assumption that reading comes first and that...
 

PDF

The Cultures of Literature and Composition: What Could Each Learn From the Other?, College English (2002)
 

Link

"Vernacular Englishes in the Writing Classroom: Probing the Culture of Literacy", From the book entitled: ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy / edited by Christopher Schroeder, Helen Fox, Patricia Bizzell. Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook--Heinemann (2002)
 

Link

Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond "Mistakes," "Bad English", and "Wrong Language", The Journal of Advanced Composition (1999)
This essay grows out of feeling torn between conflicting goals or obligations. I think most...
 

Link

Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing, Composition Studies (1999)
 

Link

Collage: Your Cheatin' Art, Writing on the Edge (1997)
 

Unpublished Papers

PDF

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...
 

PDF

The Believing Game--Methodological Believing (2008)
A defintion of the believing and doubting games; a thumbnail idealized history of believing and...
 

PDF

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...
 

Link

Enlisting Speaking and Spoken Language for Writing, The Selected Works of Peter Elbow (2007)
 

PDF

Vernacular Literacy (2006)
How our present culture of literacy serves to exclude many many potential writers--and why changing...
 

PDF

Exploring Problems With “Personal Writing” and “Expressivism” (2002)