Acknowledgments

Introduction

Debra Journet

Beth Boehm

Mary Rosner

Part I. History and the Making of Histories

Composition History and Disciplinarity

Robert J. Connors

Veterans' Stories on the Porch

Lester Faigley

Paths Not Taken: Recovering History as Alternative Future

Louise W. Phelps

Watson Conference Oral History #1: Research Forums and Agendas in Composition Studies

Carol Berkenkotter

Lester Faigley

Richare Larson

Stephen Witte

Part II. Agendas in Teaching and in Research

Composition Research Agendas in the 1960s and 1970s

Richard Lloyd-Jones

Early Work on Composing: Lessons and Illuminations

Sondra Perl

The Expressivist Menace

James T. Zebroski

A Brief History of Writing Assessment in the Late Twentieth Century: The Writer Comes Center Stage

Kathleen Blake Yancey

Watson Conference Oral History &num2: Process Theory and the Shape of Composition Studies

Deborah Brandt

Janet Emig

Sondra Perl

Part III. Intellectual Influences and Disciplinary Narratives

Rereading Feminism's Absence and Presence in Composition

Kathleen A. Boardman

Joy Ritchie

Is There Still a Place for Rhetorical History in Composition Studies?

Gerald P. Muldering

The Developing Discipline of Composition: From Text Linguistics to Genre Theory

Amy J. Devitt

Two Disciplinary Narratives for Non-Standard English in the Classroom: Citation Histories of Shaughnessy's Errors and Expectations and Smitherman's Talkin' and Testifyin'

Shirley K. Rose

Watson Conference Oral History &num3: The Breadth of Composition Studies: Professionalization and Interdisciplinary

Joseph Comprone

Lisa Ede

Peter Elbow

Janice Lauer

Andrea Lunsford

Richard Young

Watson Conference Oral History &num4: Classical Rhetoric in the Present and Future of Composition Studies

Edward P.J. Corbett

Frank D'Angelo

Winifred Horner

James Kinneavy

C. Jan Swearingen

Part IV. The Development of a Profession

Professionalizing Politics

Richard Ohmann

Evocative Gestures in CCCC Chairs' Addresses

Ellen L. Barton

Whispers from the Margin: A Class-based Interpretation of the Conflict Between High School and College Writing Teachers

Irvin Peckham

Professing Rhetoric and Composition: A Personal Odyssey

Frank J. D'Angelo

Watson Conference Oral History #5: Discourse and Politics in Composition Studies

David Bartholomae

Pat Bizzell

Patty Harkin

Richard Ohmann

Part V. Future Prospects and Challenges

Rethinking Research on Composing: Arguments for a New Research Agenda

Lee Odell

Christina Lynn Prell

Intellectual-Bureaucrats: The Future of Employment in the Twilight of the Professions

Richard E. Miller

Watson Conference Oral History #6: Working Inside and Outside Composition Studies

Charles Bazerman

Charles Cooper

Richard Lloyd-Jones

Lee Odell

Author Index

Subject Index