A Note on This Collection
Introduction: Robert J. Connors: A Life in Writing
The Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse
Handbooks: History of a Genre
The Rhetoric of Explanation: Explanatory Rhetoric from Aristotle to 1850
The Rhetoric of Explanation: Explanatory Rhetoric from 1850 to the Present
The Genius (short story)
The Rhetoric of Mechanical Correctness
Textbooks and the Evolution of the Discipline
Grammar in American College Composition: An Historical Overview
Personal Writing Assignments
Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research
Introduction to Selected Essays of Edward P. J. Corbett
Overwork/Underpay: Labor and Status of Composition Teachers since 1880
How in the World Do You Get a Skunk out of a Bottle? (personal essay)
Writing the History of Our Discipline
Dreams and Play: Historical Method and Methodology
Teachers’ Rhetorical Comments on Student Papers
Women’s Reclamation of Rhetoric in Nineteenth- Century America
The Abolition Debate in Composition: A Short History
Teaching and Learning as a Man
Introduction to Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy
Memorial Tribute to Edward P. J. Corbett, 1919–1998
The Rhetoric of Citation Systems — Part I: The Development of Annotation Structures from the Renaissance to 1900
The Rhetoric of Citation Systems — Part II: Competing Epistemic Values in Citation
Adversus Haereses: Robert J. Connors Responds to Roxanne Mountford
Composition History and Disciplinarity
Frances Wright: First Female Civic Rhetor in America
The Erasure of the Sentence
In Memory of Robert J. Connors
PATRICIA A. SULLIVAN, DAVID EDWARDS, ANDREA ABERNETHY LUNSFORD AND LISA EDE, CHERYL GLENN, LYNN Z. BLOOM, ELIZABETH A. FLYNN, PATRICK MCGANN, SHERRIE GRADIN, THOMAS NEWKIRK
Bibliography for Robert J. Connors
Index