College English, Vol. 72, No. 1, September 2009

Table of Contents

• From the Editor

  John Schilb

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• The Fighting Style: Reading the Unabomber’s Strunk and White

  Catherine Prendergast

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  Abstract: The fiftieth anniversary of the Strunk and White edition of The Elements of Style is an appropriate occasion for considering its enormous popularity. Especially interesting is the esteem for the book held by Theodore Kaczynszki, convicted as the Unabomber. His embrace of Strunk and White’s values points to a kind of violence and primitivist nostalgia in their ideology of style

• Floating Foundations: Kairos, Community, and a Composition Program in Post-Katrina New Orleans

  T. R. Johnson, Joe Letter, and Judith Kemerait Livingston

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  Abstract: The authors describe their individual and collective experiences reconstructing their New Orleans-based university composition program in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They emphasize how the concept of floating foundations helps account for changes in their students’ interests, and they suggest that this idea is applicable to the work of writing instructors in general.

• Reconsiderations: Anonymity and Violence: Jane Tompkins’s “Fighting Words” Twenty Years Later

  Gary Weissman

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  Abstract: In her influential 1988 essay, “Fighting Words,” Jane Tompkins argued that the arguments typically made by literary critics are characterized by an aggressive competitiveness that amounts to violence. But, as Tompkins’s own rhetorical strategies demonstrate, at least as deplorable are the practices whereby critics render certain people anonymous.

• Opinion: An Argument for Archival Research Methods: Thinking Beyond Methodology

  Barbara L’Eplattenier

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  Abstract: In reporting their research, historians of rhetoric and composition should be more explicit and specific about their investigative methods.

• Review: Not Your Parents’ Curriculum: Multiple Genres, Technologies, and Disciplines in the Life Writing Classroom

  Victoria Elmwood

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  Abstract: Reviewed is Teaching with Life Writing Texts, edited by Miriam Fuchs and Craig Howes.

• Announcements and Calls for Papers

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