Rethinking Writing, Composition, & Communication Studies (incl. “multicultural education” in general)

Adams, J.Q., J.F. Niss, and C. Suarez. Multicultural Education: A Rationale for Development and Implementation. Macomb: Western Illinois University Foundation, 1991.

Asante, M.K. and W.B. Gudykunst, eds. Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989.

Barton, David.Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Esp. chapter 5, on multilingualism in literacy research.

Belcher, Diane. “How Professors Initiate Nonnative Speakers into their Disciplinary Discourse Communities.” Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education1 (1989): 207-25.

Border, L.B. and N.V.M. Chism, eds. The Future Is Now: A Call for Action and List of Resources. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No.49 (Teaching for Diversity). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

Brooke, Robert E., ed. Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing. New York: Teachers College P, 2003.

Chang, S.J. “Linguistics and Written Discourse in Particular Languages: Contrastive Studies: English and Korean.” Annual Review of Applied Linguistics(1982): 85-98.

Connor, Ulla.Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-cultural Aspects of Second-language Writing. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Fox, Helen.Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994.
[Addresses writing issues faced by non-western students in the U.S. academy, but much of what Fox discusses—e.g., the expectations for academic writing in the U.S.—is useful for thinking about writing and interpersonal communication issues for all students; she also devotes one chapter specifically to U.S. “involuntary minority” students. Short (150 pp.) and intelligent grappling with complex issues, especially with regard to the way in which recognizing and addressing cultural differences can bleed into ethnocentric cultural stereotyping and deprecation of “others.” Good list of “Resources for Research, Teaching, and Cross-Cultural Understanding.”]

Fox, T. “Basic Writing as Cultural Conflict.” Journal of Education 172.1 (1990): 65-83.

Fredericksen, Elaine Freedman.A New World of Writers: Teaching Writing in a Diverse Society. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Hairston, Maxine. “Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing.” College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 179-93.

Harvard Educational Review58.3 (Aug. 1988): special issue: “Race, Racism and American Education: Perspectives of Asian Americans, Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans.”

Hecht, M.L., M.J. Collier, and S.A. Ribeau. African American Communication: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Interpretation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993.

Hinds, J. “Linguistics and Written Discourse in English and Japanese: A Contrastive Study (1978-1982).” Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (1982): 78-84.

Hinds, J. “Reader versus Writer Responsibility: A New Typology.” Writing Across Languages: Analysis of L2 Text. Eds. Ulla Connor and Robert B. Kaplan. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987.

Horner, W., ed. Composition and Literature: Bridging the Gap. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.

International Journal of Intercultural Relations (1976?- )

Jenkins, M. “Teaching a New Majority: Guidelines for Cross-cultural Communication between Students and Faculty.” Feminist Teacher 5.1 (1990): 8-14.

Johns, Ann M. “Language and Culture in the Classroom.” Multicultural Diversity and College Teaching. Ed. Helen Roberts. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1994. 60-76.

Johns, Ann M. “ESL Students and WAC Programs: Varied Populations and Diverse Needs.”WAC for the New Millenium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs. Eds. S. McLead, E. Miraglia, M. Soven, and Chris Thaiss. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2001. 141-64.

Kaplan, Robert B. “Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter-Cultural Education.” Language Learning 16 (1966): 1-20. (the founding text for contrastive rhetoric studies)

Kaplan, Robert B. “Cultural Thought Patterns Revisited.” Writing Across Languages: Analysis of L2 Text. Eds. Ulla Connor and Robert B. Kaplan. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987.

Kochman, T. Black and White Styles in Conflict. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.

Lan, Haixia. “Contrastive Rhetoric: A Must in Cross-Cultural Inquiries.” Alt-Dis: Alternative Discourses in the Academy. Eds. Schraeder, Fox, and Bizzell. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 68-79.

Leki, Ilona.Understanding ESL Writers: A Guide for Teachers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992.

Li, Xiao-ming.“Good Writing” in Cross-Cultural Context. Albany: SUNY P, 1996.

Liebman, J. “Toward a New Contrastive Rhetoric: Differences between Arabic and Japanese Rhetorical Instruction.” Journal of Second Language Writing 1 (1992): 141-65.

Markus, H.R. and S. Kitayama. “Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation.” Psychological Review 58.3 (1991): 224-53.

Matalene, Carolyn. “Contrastive Rhetoric: An American Writing Teacher in China.”College English 47 (1985): 789-808. [JSTOR]

Matsuda, Paul Kei. “Contrastive Rhetoric in Context: A Dynamic Model of L2 Writing.”Journal of Second Language Writing 6.1 (1997): 45-60.

Matsuda, Paul Kei. “Alternative Discourses: A Synthesis.” Alt-Dis: Alternative Discourses in the Academy. Eds. Schraeder, Fox, and Bizzell. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. 191-96.

Muchiri, Mary N., Nshindi G. Mulamba, Greg Myers, and Deoscorous B. Ndoli. “Importing Composition: Teaching and Researching Academic Writing Beyond North America.”College Composition and Communication 46.2 (May 1995): 175-98.

Mulhauser, Peter and Rom HarrÉ. Pronouns and People: the Linguistic Construction of Social and Personal Identity. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

Murray, D.E., ed. Diversity as a Resource: Redefining Cultural Literacy. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1992.

Nieto, S.Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1992.

Purves, Alan C., ed. Writing across Languages and Cultures: Issues in Contrastive Rhetoric. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1988.

Purves, Alan C. and W.C. Purves. “Viewpoints: Cultures, Text Models, and the Activity of Writing.” Research in the Teaching of English 20.2 (1986): 174-97.

Roberts, Helen, ed. Teaching from a Multicultural Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994.

Samovar, L.A. and R.E. Porter, eds. Intercultural Communication: A Reader. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1988.

Santos, Terry. “Professors’ Reactions to the Academic Writing of Non-native-speaking Students.”TESOL Quarterly 22 (1988): 69-90.

Schoem, D., L. Frankel, X. Zuniga, and E.A. Lewis, eds. Multicultural Teaching in the University. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993.

Scollon, R. and S.B.K. Scollon. Narrative, Literacy, and Face in Interethnic Communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1981.

Severino, Carol, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler, ed. Writing in Multicultural Settings. New York: MLA, 1997.

Shen, F. “The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition.” College Composition and Communication 40.4 (1989): 459-66.

Sleeter, C.E. and C.A. Grant. “An Analysis of Multicultural Education in the United States.” Harvard Educational Review 57 (1987): 421-44.

Smitherman, Geneva. Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1986.

Smitherman, Geneva and Victor Villanueva, ed. Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003.

Ting-Toomey, S. and F. Korzenny, eds. Cross-cultural Interpersonal Communication. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991.

Tokarczyk, Michelle M. and Irene Papoulis, eds. Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Triandis, H. “The Self and Social Behavior in Differing Cultural Contexts.” Psychological Review 96 (1989): 506-20.

Ybarra, Raul E. Learning to Write as a Hostile Act for Latino Students. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.