Concepts in Composition

Irene L. Clark is Professor of English, Director of Composition, and Director of the Master’s Option in Rhetoric and Composition at California State University, Northridge. She previously taught at the University of Southern California (USC), where she also co-directed the university’s Writing Program and directed its Writing Center. She has authored several textbooks for both undergraduate and graduate students and written a number of articles concerned with Writing Studies, genre, and transfer. Her recent scholarly interest is in the interconnection between literacy and current work in neuroplasticity—the ability of the brain to alter in response to experience. She holds a B.A. in Music from Hunter College, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in English Literature from USC.

• Table of Contents Processes: Approaches and Issues Irene L. Clark Reading(s) Composing Behaviors of One-and Multi-Draft WritersAuthor: Muriel Harris (1989)Source: College English, 51 (2): 174–190Author: Mary Jo Reiff (2006)Source: In Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers. Eds. Peter Vandenberg, Sue Hum, Jennifer Clary-Lemon. NCTE: Urbana IL, 157–206 Invention: Issues and Strategies Irene L. Clark Reading: Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language, A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s BlockAuthor: Mike Rose (1980)Source: College Composition and Communication, 31(4): 389–401 Revision: Issues and Strategies Betty Bamberg and Irene L. Clark Reading: Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult WritersAuthor: Nancy Sommers (1980)Source: College Composition and Communication, 31(4): 378–388 Audiences Irene L. Clark Reading: Closing My Eyes as I speak: An Argument for Ignoring AudienceAuthor: Peter Elbow (1987)Source: College English, 49(1): 50–69 Genre, Transfer, and Related Issues Irene L. Clark Reading: "Emphasizing Similarity" but Not "Eliding Difference": Exploring Sub- Disciplinary Differences as a Way to Teach Genre FlexiblyKatherine Schaefer (2015)WAC Journal, 26: 36–55 Reading/Writing Connections Irene L. Clark Reading: Motivation and Connection: Teaching Reading (and Writing) in the Composition ClassroomAuthor: Michael Bunn (2013) Source: College Composition and Communication, 64(3): 496–516 Assessment: Issues and Controversies Julie Neff-Lippman Reading: Across the DraftsAuthor: Nancy Sommers (2006)Source: College Composition and Communication, 58: 248–257 Teaching Multilingual Students in a Composition Class Olga Griswold and John Edlund Reading: Promoting Grammar and Language Development in the Writing Class: Why, What How, and WhenAuthor: Dana R. Ferris (2016)Source: In Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages. Ed. E. Hinkel. New York: Hinkel (2016) pp. 222–245 Language, Linguistic Diversity, and Writing Sharon Klein Reading: Clarifying the Multiple Dimensions of Monolingualism: Keeping Our Sights on Language PoliticsAuthors: Missy Watson and Rachael Shapiro (2018) Source: Composition Forum, 38, http://compositionforum.com/issue/38/ Issues in Digital and Multimodal Writing: Composition Instruction for the 21st Century Jennifer Sheppard Reading: The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal ComposingAuthor: Cynthia L. Selfe (2009)Source: College Composition and Communication, 60(4): 616–663