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Composition Forum: Volume 27: Spring 2013

From the Editors
Christian Weisser and Michelle Ballif

Interview

A Portrait of a Scholar…In Progress: An Interview with Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Tanya K. Rodrigue

Retrospective

Reflecting Back and Looking Forward: Revisiting Teaching About Writing, Righting Misconceptions Five Years On
Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs

Articles

Latino/a Student (Efficacy) Expectations: Reacting and Adjusting to a Writing-about-Writing Curriculum Change at an Hispanic Serving Institution
I. Moriah McCracken and Valerie A. Ortiz

What Does Your Money Get You?: Active Learning as an Alternative to Consumerism in the Composition Classroom
Faith Kurtyka

In Support of Failure
Allison Carr

The Difficulties of Thinking Through Freewriting
Hannah Rule

Material Affordances: The Potential of Scrapbooks in the Composition Classroom
Kara Poe Alexander

The Ethics of Clarity and/or Obscuration
Nate Kreuter

Mapping Student Literacies: Reimagining College Writing Instruction within the Literacy Landscape
Erin Penner Gallegos

Program Profiles

Intractable Writing Program Problems, Kairos, and Writing-about-Writing: A Profile of the University of Central Florida’s First-Year Composition Program
Elizabeth Wardle

Writing the Transition to College: A Summer College Writing Experience at Elon University
Jessie L. Moore, Kimberly B. Pyne, and Paula Patch

Local History, Local Complexities: The First-Year Writing Curriculum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Clancy Ratliff

Review Essay

Sustaining Composition: Studying Content-Based, Ecological, and Economical Sustainability of Open-Source Textbooks Through Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing
Margaret Munson

Reviews

Review of Wendy Ryden and Ian Marshall's Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness
Tim Barnett

Review of Sidney Dobrin's Postcomposition
John Pell

Previous issue: Vol 26, Fall 2012.