10/07/15 Brooke, Collin. Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2009.
Scalability (40), ecology of practice "one scale at which we might examine new media...and which is embedded in an even more generalized ecology" (45); most important changes in new media are in eco of practice (47); "practice implies conscious, directed activity" (49) and "those practices that may be unintended"
​10/7/15 Keller, Christopher J. and Christian R. Weisser, eds. The Locations of Composition. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.
The collection presents place space and location, material/immaterial, as figures useful the disciplinary questions in composition studies. While the editors establish some senses of their animating figures they generally leave place, space, location open to the collection's contributors.
Devitt's chapter, "Transferability and Genres" 215-228.
Establishes clearly the genre approach and communicates clearly why writing teachers can't be fully blamed for a student's challenges in writing across the curriculum. Copy and use in WAC/WID training. Really terrific.
Reynold's chapter, "Cultural Geography and Images of Place" 251-266.
10/7/15 Mathieu, Paula. Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in Composition. Portsmouth: Boyton Cook, 2005.