Composition Manual

Journals & Professional Organizations

Researching in Composition & Rhetoric

Sample Syllabi

Sample Assignments: Coming Soon!

Textbook Publishers

Teaching Ideas

Sample Assignments

ª    Composition Manual

This is the manual developed by the UNCG Composition Program for Teaching Assistants.  It has helpful guidelines, policies, and suggestions for teaching English 101.

ª Journals and Professional Organizations

The field of composition is large and growing.  Here's some of the journals that composition instructors may be interested in reading or submitting articles to.  In addition, there are links to several professional organizations composition instructors may wish to join.

Journals

The ADE Bulletin

The CEA Forum

College Composition and Communication

College English

Composition Studies

Computers and Composition

English Education

English Journal

English for Specific Purposes

JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory

Journal of Basic Writing

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Journal of Second Language Writing

Journal of Teaching Writing

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

Philosophy and Rhetoric

PRE/TEXT

Radical Teacher

Research in the Teaching of English

Rhetoric Review

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Rhetoric

TESOL Quarterly

Teaching English in the Two-Year College

Technical Communication Quarterly

The Writing Center Journal

The Writing Instructor

Writing Lab Newsletter

Writing on the Edge

Written Communication

E-Journals

Academic Writing

Composition Forum

Enculturation

First Monday

The Journal of Literacy and Technology

Kairos

Rhet/Net

The Technology Source

Writer's Write: The Internet Writing Journal

Professional Organizations

American Association for Higher Education

Association for Teachers of Technical Writing

Alliance for Computers and Writing

MLA

NCTE

National Writing Centers Associations

SAMLA

WPA

ª Researching in Composition & Rhetoric

There are a few developing online databases and websites for doing scholarly work in Composition and Rhetoric.

CompPile

comppile.tamucc.edu

Largest online searchable database of composition sources 1939-1999

Cyber Culture and Hypermedia Resources

mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/cyber-resources.htm

A large subdivided bibliography of sources about teaching with technology

RhetComp

www.rhetcomp.com

links, programs, journals, calls for papers

www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/Harris/rhetform.html

rhetorical devices, tests, and literary terms

www.uta.edu/english/V/rhetcomp.html

Victor Vitanza's web page

www.uta.edu/english/V/histrhet.html

history of rhetoric

ª Sample Syllabi

Below are links to several composition sample syllabi.  These can be helpful in forming your own policies, assignments, and classroom activities.

English 101

Amy Gerald

Kay McEvoy

Shannon Stewart

Pam Whitfield

Judit Szerdahelyi (101N)

English 102S

Kay McEvoy

ª Textbook Publishers

ª Teaching Ideas (UNCG Teaching and Learning Center)

The campus Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) has complied a large number of websites dedicated to teaching ideas: what to do the first day of class, how to create syllabi and assignments, how to work with groups in the classroom, and so forth.

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