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Exploring Composition Studies

  • Sites, Issues, and Perspectives
  • edited by Paul Kei Matsuda and Kelly Ritter
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Imprint: Utah State University Press
University Press of Colorado - Exploring Composition Studies
  • Paperback Price: $36.95
  • Ebook Price: $27.95

Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda have created an essential introduction to the field of composition studies for graduate students and instructors new to the study of writing. The book offers a careful exploration of this diverse field, focusing specifically on scholarship of writing and composing. Within this territory, the authors draw the boundaries broadly, to include allied sites of research such as professional and technical writing, writing across the curriculum programs, writing centers, and writing program administration.

Importantly, they represent composition as a dynamic, eclectic field, influenced by factors both within the academy and without. The editors and their sixteen seasoned contributors have created a comprehensive and thoughtful exploration of composition studies as it stands in the early twenty-first century. Given the rapid growth of this field and the evolution of it research and pedagogical agendas over even the last ten years, this multi-vocal introduction is long overdue.

  • Kelly Ritter

    Kelly Ritter is chair of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and professor of writing and communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of four books and editor or coeditor of four collections, including Beyond Fitting In: Rethinking First-Generation Writing and Literacy Education. Her work has appeared in CCC, College English, Rhetoric Review, Pedagogy, Profession, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Composition Studies, JAC, Slate, The Conversation, and The Chronicle of Higher Education and in numerous edited collections.

    Paul Kei Matsuda

    Paul Kei Matsuda is professor of English and the director of Writing Programs at Arizona State University, where he works closely with doctoral and master’s students in rhetoric and composition as well as applied linguistics and TESOL. Previously, he taught at Miami University and the University of New Hampshire, where he directed the composition program.
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60732-629-8
  • EISBN: 978-0-87421-883-1
  • Publication Year: 2010
  • Pages: 296
  • Discount Type: Short
  • ECommerce Code: 978-0-87421-882-4
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