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> You might trying posting this question to mbu-l@ttuvm1.  This is
> discussion list that is more directed to composition than to
> rhetoric.  For our graduate course in composition theory, we try to
> use the best and most recent books by composition theorists.  These
> are usually inexpensive and readily available.  It is also much
> easier than assembling a packet.  For our introductory course in the
> fall, we will be using the following titles:
>
> Peter Dixon.  Rhetoric.  Methuen, 1971.  [A short intro. to classical
> rhetoric from the Critical Idiom series.]
>
> James Porter.  Audience and Rhetoric.  Prentice Hall, 1992.  [Part of
> the Prentice Hall series in Writing and Culture.  This is the finest
> and most accessible work on audience I have found.]
>
> Lester Faigley.  Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the
> Subject of Composition.  Pittsburgh, 1992.  [part of the U of
> Pittsburgh series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture]
>
> Anne Ruggles Gere, ed.  Into the Field: Sites of Composition Studies.
>  MLA, 1993.  [Includes a number of essay on philosophy and
> composition and specifically postmodern philosophy and composition]
>
> James Williams.  Preparing to Teach Writing.  Wadsworth, 1989.  [A
> practical guide to the teaching of writing.  This course also
> supports TA training.]
>
> David Foster.  A Primer for Writing Teachers.  1992.  [Part of the
> Boynton/Cook series in Composition.  A revision of Foster's earlier
> book by the same name.  This gives a good overview of composition
> theory in the last ten years.]
>
>
> I can also recommend the following:
>
> Kurt Spellmeyer.  Common Ground: Dialogue, Understanding, and the
> Teachng of Composition.  [Part of the Prentice Hall series]
>
> Myron C. Tuman.  Literacy Online: The Promise [and peril] of Reading
> and Writing with Computers.  [Part of the Pittsburgh series]
>
>
>
> This should get you started if your main interest is composition
> theory.  If you are interested in expanding that focus to rhetorical
> theory, I can suggest some additional titles.
Gary Hatch
Brigham Young University
English Department
3146 JKHB
Provo, UT  84602        (801) 378-2402
gary_hatch@byu.edu