This second edition of Cross-Talk in Comp Theory offers a revised and updated resource that, once again, stands apart as must-have reading for comp veterans and newcomers alike.

Villanueva has replaced eight pieces and added two more, for a total of 43 landmark and recent essays by a veritable who’s who of composition, including Janet Emig, Walter Ong, Joy Ritchie, Richard Miller, Jacqueline Jones Royster, James Berlin, Mina Shaughnessy, Mike Rose, Chris Anson, and Patricia Bizzell; the volume is further updated by revised section introductions and a revised list of suggested readings.

Yet even as this new edition adds coverage of recent discussions and increases treatment of topics including feminism, ESL, service-learning, and technology, it retains the roughly chronological/historical approach that has made Cross-Talk an invaluable survey of the field’s evolution during the last four decades.
883 pp. 2003. College. ISBN 0-8141-0976-4.
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