Monday, January 28, 2008
Readings on Readings: A List for FYC
Fresh off the WPA-list, a list of readings about readings for use in First Year Composition. Thanks to Asao Inoue for asking the question that summoned so many useful replies and for compiling the list below!
Without further delay, and in no particular order:
Ishmael Reed, “Beware: Do Not Read This Poem.”
Keats, “On Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”
Ezra Pound, first few chapters of ABC of Reading.
Christina Haas and Linda Flower, “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning.” College Composition and Communication 39 (1988): 167-83.
Christina Haas, “Beyond ‘Just the Facts’: Reading as Rhetorical Action.” In Hearing Ourselves Think. Eds. Penrose and Sitko 19-32.
Stuart Greene, “Exploring the Relationship between Authorship and Reading.” In Hearing Ourselves Think. Eds. Penrose and Sitko 33-51.
Peter Elbow, “Being a Writer vs. Being an Academic: A Conflict in Goals.” College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 72-83.
Gerald Graff, Clueless in Academe.
Mark Edmundson, Why I Read.
Peter Elbow, “The Doubting Game and the Believing Game: An Analysis of the Intellectual Enterprise.”
Sherman Alexie. “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me.” In Cohen’s 50 Essays.
Frederick Douglass, “Learning To Read and Write.”
Malcolm X’s, “Learning To Read.”
Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna Be Average.”
Calib Crain, “Twilight of the Books.” The New Yorker. December 24, 2007.
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading.
Robert Scholes, Protocols of Reading.
Lawrence Musgrove, “Metaphors We Read By.” Editorial in Inside Higher Ed.
Paul De Man, Allegories of Reading.