Texts for Students New to the Field of Rhetoric and Composition | writingfly

A useful list of books for people who want to learn more about teaching composition and rhetoric, originally from Elizabeth VanderLei at Calvin College:

Agar, Michael H., Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation
Aristotle, On Rhetoric (Kennedy version)
Berlin, James, Rhetoric and Reality
Berthoff, Anne, Forming/Thinking/Writing
---, Reclaiming the Imagination
---, The Making of Meaning
Burke, Kenneth, Language As Symbolic Action
Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Hertzberg, The Rhetorical Tradition
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Booth, Wayne, The Vocation of a Teacher
Bruner, Jermoe, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Connors, Robert, Composition-Rhetoric
Corbett, Edward P., and Robert Connors, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
Covino, William, The Art of Wondering
---, and David Jolliffe, Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries
Crosswhite, James, The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attractions of Argument (1997)
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee, Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students
Elbow, Peter, Everyone Can Write
---, What is English?
Faigley, Lester, Fragments of Rationality
Flower, Linda, The Construction of Negotiated Meaning: A Social Cognitive Theory of Writing
Fox, Thomas, Defending Access
Grassi, Ernesto, Rhetoric as Philosophy
Harris, Joseph, A Teaching Subject
Haswell, Richard, Gaining Ground in College Composition
Heilker, Paul, and Peter Vandenberg, Keywords in Composition Studies
Hooks, bell, Teaching to Transgress
Huot, Brian, and Takayoshi, Teaching Writing with Computers
Jarrett, Susan, Rereading the Sophists
Kennedy, George, Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition
Leamnson, Robert, Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning With First Year College and University Students
Lindemann, Erika, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers
---, and Gary Tate, An Introduction to Composition Studies
Macrorie, Ken, Telling Writing
Mayher, John S., Uncommon Sense
Murray, Donald, A Writer Teaches Writing
Paley, Vivian Gussin, The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter
Persig, Robert, Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plato, Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII (Penguin Classic)
Postman, Neil, The End of Education
Reynolds, Nedra, Patricia Bizzell, and Bruce Herzberg, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, 6th ed.
Roen, Duane, Stuart Brown, and Theresa Enos, Living Rhetoric and Composition: Stories of the Discipline
Rose, Mike, Lives on the Boundary
Schell, Eileen, Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers
Seitz, James, Motives for Metaphor: Literacy, Curriculum Reform and the Teaching of English ( 1999)
Villanueva, Victor, Bootstraps, From an American Academic of Color
---, Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader
Wiley, Mark, Barbara Gleason, and Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Composition in Four Keys: Inquiring Into the Field
Williams, Joseph, Style: Ten Lessons In Clarity and Grace