Recommended Reading List for Composition

Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985.
Bizzell, Patricia. Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual.
Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg, eds. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present (2nd ed.).
Connors, Robert, Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford, eds. Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse.
Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power.
Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition.
Flower, Linda. The Construction of Negotiated Meaning: A Social Cognitive Theory of Writing.
Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966.
Hillocks, George. Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice.
Kinneavy, James L. A Theory of Discourse.
Lindemann, Erika. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (4th ed.).
Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition.
North, Stephen. The Making of Knowledge in Composition.
Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy.
Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary.
Selfe, Cynthia L. Technology and Literacy in the 21st Century: The Importance of Paying Attention (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric).
Shaughnessy, Mina. Errors and Expectations.
Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick, eds. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies.
Villanueva, Victor, ed. Cross-Talk in Comp Theory.