Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition Book

	Foreword
	Introduction	1
	Joining the Scholarly Conversation: Publishing Articles and Chapters
	Breaking the Print Barrier: Entering the Professional Conversation	5
	Publishing Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition: Joining the Conversation	19
	Scholarship and Teaching: Motives and Strategies for Writing Articles in Composition Studies	35
	Person, Position, Style	47
	Gender and Publishing Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition	57
	Shaping the Conversation: Publishing Scholarly Monographs and Textbooks
	From Dissertation to Scholarly Monograph: Meeting Professional Expectations	75
	Getting Booked: Commodity, Confinement, Conundrum	89
	The Edited Collection: A Scholarly Contribution and More	103
	Planning and Producing a Traditional Rhetoric Textbook	119
	Making Essay Connections: Editing Readers for First-Year Writers	133
	Negotiating the Conversation: Examining Issues in Scholarly Publishing
	The Consequences of Theory for the Practice of Writing	147
	Observation-Based Theory Building	163
	Conducting Research in the History of Rhetoric: An Open Letter to a Future Historian of Rhetoric	187
	The Politics of Electronic Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition	197
	Work Habits of Productive Scholarly Writers: Insights from Research in Psychology	211
	Graduate Students as Active Members of the Profession: Some Questions for Mentoring	229
	Contributors	237
	Index	241