Teaching Writing Landmarks and Horizons Edited by Christina Russell McDonald and Robert L. McDonald Foreword by Gary Tate Postscript by Steve North   September 2002 paper, 0-8093-2454-7, $29.50s 320 pages, 6 x 9 Rhetoric and Composition     “By its arrangement and its contents, this collection of essays performs at least two important functions for teachers of writing: it demonstrates that the work of our recent past is still valuable, and it contributes to the efforts of recent years to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Such a new vision of our history and a new level of understanding between practitioners and theorists could provide the foundation for a more productive, enlightened disciplinary future.” —Gary Tate, from the Foreword   “The primary contribution of Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons is to bring together the generations. Moreover, while the discipline seems to be entering into a period of greater attention to pedagogy, part two of this timely collection of stellar contributors and landmark essays brings a new understanding between theory and practice.” —Pat Belanoff, coeditor of Nothing Begins with “N”: New Investigations of Freewriting     Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons, edited by Christina Russell McDonald and Robert L. McDonald, is designed to present an overview of some of the major developments in the establishment of composition studies as a field during the past thirty-five years. The essays are theoretically grounded but are focused on pedagogy as well. Divided into two parts, the first presents nine landmark essays, selected and introduced by distinguished composition scholars, and the second brings together eight new essays by emerging scholars.   Christina Russell McDonald is an associate professor of English and Institute Director of Writing at Virginia Military Institute. She is the coeditor with Robert L. McDonald of Teaching Composition in the 90s: Sites of Contention. Robert L. McDonald is a professor of English and the associate dean for Academic Affairs at Virginia Military Institute. His publications include two books on the American writer Erskine Caldwell and, most recently, Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism.    Contents and Contributors   Part One. Landmarks: Classic Essays on the Teaching of Writing   “Pre-Writing: The Stage of Discovery in the Writing Process,” D. Gordon Rohman, Introduced by Robert J. Connors   “Rhetoric 2001,” Richard M. Coe, Introduced by Erika Lindemann   “Writing as a Mode of Learning,” Janet Emig, Introduced by Lisa Ede and Andrea Abernethy Lunsford   “The Study of Error,” David Bartholomae, Introduced by John Trimbur   “Responding to Student Writing,” Nancy Sommers, Introduced by Edward M. White   “Reflections on Academic Discourse,” Peter Elbow, Introduced by Lynn Z. Bloom   “Rhetoric and Composition Studies: A Multimodal Discipline,” Janice M. Lauer, Introduced by Richard Leo Enos   “Freshman Composition: No Place for Literature,” Erika Lindemann, Introduced by Wendy Bishop   “A Place for Literature in Freshman Composition,” Gary Tate, Introduced by Wendy Bishop   Part Two. Horizons: New Essays in Composition Pedagogy   “The Slave of Pedagogy: Composition Studies and the Art of Teaching,” Nancy Myers   “Imagining Our Teaching Selves,” Christina Russell McDonald   “Imaginative Literature: Creating Opportunities for Multicultural Conversations in the Composition Classroom,” Linda Woodson   “Irrigation: The Political Economy of Personal Experience,” Carol Reeves and Alan W. France   “What Are Styles and Why Are We Saying Such Terrific Things about Them?,” Rebecca Moore Howard, et al.   “Valuating Academic Writing,” Kurt Schick   “Brave New (Cyber)World: From Reader to Navigator,” David W. Chapman   “Learning to Walk the Walk: Mentors, Theory, and Practice in Composition Pedagogy,” Paul Heilker   “Postscript: The One Who Attends,” Steve North