Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies. Vicki Byard

Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies

Lenses on Composition Studies

Series Editors, Sheryl Fontaine and Steve Westbrook

Lenses on Composition Studies offers authors the unique opportunity to write for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students who are new to the discipline of Composition Studies. While the series aims to maintain the rigor and depth of contemporary composition scholarship, it seeks to offer this particular group of students an introduction to key disciplinary issues in accessible prose that does not assume prior advanced knowledge of scholars and theoretical debates. The series provides instructors of advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students texts that are both appropriate and inviting for this fresh but professionally directed audience.

Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies

Vicki Byard

Parlor Press

Anderson, South Carolina

www.parlorpress.com

Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906

Printed in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Byard, Vicki, 1961-

Bibliographic research in composition studies / Vicki Byard.

p. cm. -- (Lenses on composition studies)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-1-60235-131-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-132-5 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-133-2 (adobe ebook : alk. paper)

1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching. 2. English language--Rhetoric--Research--Methodology. I. Title.

PE1404.B93 2009

808’.04207--dc22

2009036437

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

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Contents

1 Directions to the Parlor: The Need for a Guide to Scholarship in Composition Studies

The Need for Student-Centered Introductions to Composition Studies

The Need for Bibliographic Instruction in Academia

The Need for Bibliographic Instruction in Composition Studies

Suggestions for Using This Book

Some Cautions about This Book

Works Cited

For Further Reading

2 Voices in the Parlor: The Construction of Knowledge in Composition Studies

Scholarship

Definition of Scholarship