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Bérubé, Michael. Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional
Child. New York: Vintage-Random, 1998. In this important text about
breaking stereotypes and not viewing your students through the lens of
disabilities, Bérubé describes his own child with Down syndrome.
Booth, Wayne C. “The Rhetorical Stance.” Now Don’t Try to Reason with Me:
Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1970.
Booth posits a carefully balanced tripartite division of rhetorical appeals,
including “the available arguments about the subject itself, the interests
and peculiarities of the audience, and the voice, the implied character, of
the speaker” (27).
Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. Enabling the Humanities: A Sourcebook for Disability
Studies in Language and Literature. New York: MLA, 2002.
———. Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness. Washington,
DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999. Writing out of both professional and personal
experience with deafness, Brueggemann provides an astute analysis of
rhetorical constructions and institutional traditions that limit deaf people;
interviews and poetry make this a compelling text for the classroom.
Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, Linda Feldmeier White, Patricia A. Dunn, Barbara A.
Heifferon, and Johnson Cheu. “Becoming Visible: Lessons in Disability.”
CCC 52.3 (Feb. 2001): 368–98. The authors scrutinize constructions of
normalcy, writing, and composition in this groundbreaking article in disability
studies.
Connors, Robert J., and Andrea Lunsford. “Teachers’ Rhetorical Comments on
Student Papers.” CCC 44 (May 1993): 200–24.
Corbett, Edward P. J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate. The Writing Teacher’s
Sourcebook. 4th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
Daiker, Donald A. “Learning to Praise.” Writing Response: Theory, Practice,
and Research. Ed. Chris Anson. Urbana: NCTE, 1989. 103–13.
Epes, Mary. “Tracing Errors to Their Sources: A Study of the Encoding Processes
of Adult Basic Writers.” Journal of Basic Writing 4 (Spring 1985):
4–33. Epes makes a cogent argument for grammatical instruction that
reflects standard academic English.
Halasek, Kay, Tara Pauliny, Edgar Singleton, Rebecca Greenberg Taylor, Kathleen
R. Wallace, and Matt Wanat. The Writer’s Companion: A Guide to
First-Year Writing. Needham Heights: Pearson, 1999.
Halsted, Isabella. “Putting Error in Its Place.” Journal of Basic Writing 1
(Spring 1975): 72–86.
Hartwell, Patrick. “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar.” CE
47 (1985): 105–27. Hartwell defines and explains the purposes of the various
grammars.
Holberg, Jennifer, and Mary Tyler, eds. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to
Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Durham:
Duke UP, 2000.