The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals
Series Editor: Steve Parks
Each year, a team of editors selects the best work published in the independent journals in the field of Rhetoric and Composition, following a competitive review process involving journal editors and publishers. For additional information about the series, see http://www.parlorpress.com/bestofrhetcomp.
The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2012
Edited by Julia Voss, Beverly Moss, Steve Parks, Brian Bailie, Heather Christiansen, and Stephanie Ceraso
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Contents
1 Rhetorical Recipes: Women’s Literacies In and Out of the Kitchen
2 Analogize This! The Politics of Scale and the Problem of Substance in Complexity-Based Composition
3 “So what are we working on?” Pronouns as a Way of Re-Examining Composing
Kate Pantelides and Mariaelena Bartesaghi
Heidi A. McKee
5 Re-reading Marshall McLuhan: Hectic Zen, Rhetoric, and Composition
6 Reflecting on the Liberal Reflex: Rhetoric and the Politics of Acknowledgment in Basic Writing
7 Positioning the Textbook as Contestable Intellectual Space
8 Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs’ Addresses, 1977–2011
Richard H. Thames
10 Writing Time: Composing in an Accelerated World
11 Daughters Making Sense of African American Young Adult Literature in Out-of-School Zones
Introduction
Questioning, Challenging, and Advocating: Advancing Knowledge in Composition and Rhetoric
Julia Voss and Beverly Moss
In his 2012 Kairos webtext “Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs’ Addresses, 1977-2011” (featured in this collection), Derek N. Mueller uses word clouds as a way to make sense of composition and rhetoric as a field, to systematically notice trends, patterns, connections. Mueller suggests that “there is a value in network sense: an aptitude enriched by this tracing of linkages across an assortment of people, places, things, and moments.” In the introduction to this anthology, we attempt a sort of network sense on a smaller scale. That is, the articles