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Articles

               “Writing With The Ear.” Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy. Ed. by T. R.

                Johnson and Thomas Pace.  Logan: Utah State University Press. 376-404 in typescript.   

 

                 “Pedagogy and Apocalypse.” Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom. Ed. Matthew

                 Parfitt and Dawn Sckorczewski. Heinemann-Boynton-Cook, 2003. 64-68

 

                “School Sucks.” College Composition and Communication. June 2001. 620-650.

 

               “Discipline and Pleasure: ‘Magic’ and Sound.” Journal of Advanced Composition. 19.3 Summer

                 1999. 431-452.

 

               “Writing as Therapy and the Rhetorical Tradition: Sorting Out Plato, Postmodernism, Writing

                 Pedagogy, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” Writing and Healing. Ed. Marian MacCurdy

                 and Charles Anderson.  Urbana: NCTE, 1999. 85-114.

 

                “An Apology for Pleasure, or Rethinking Romanticism and the Student Writer.” Composition

                 Studies. 26.2 (1998). 35-56.

 

               “Expressivism, Pleasure, and the Magical Medicine of Gorgias.” Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and

                Literacy: Selected Papers from the 1994 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America.  Ed.  

                Fred Reynolds. Hillsdale: Lawrence Earlbaum, 1995. 119-126.

 

               “Telling Stories: Metaphors for the Human Genome Project.” With Mary Rosner. Hypatia. 10:4

                 (1995): 104-129. Rpt. In Genetic Engineering: A Documentary History. Ed by Thomas Shannon.       

                 Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.