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This essay offers a chronology of over sixty works that have directly innovated, solidified, or critiqued feminist research methodologies in the study of historic rhetoric and composition over the past four decades. The ongoing conversation about feminist research in rhetoric and composition continues to raise questions about method, methodology, and canonicity just as the research itself continues to recover and re-vision a wealth of historic work. This essay, in its broad review, presents readers a panoramic snapshot of the major trends and methodological debates that have shaped feminist historic scholarship in our field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that writing teachers can encourage students to adopt a rhetorical perspective toward research-based writing by characterizing products of research in terms of how writers use them in their texts. It maintains that the standard nomenclature for treating sources ("primary, secondary, tertiary") is antirhetorical and proposes an alternative: "Background" for materials a writer relies on for general information or for factual evidence; "Exhibit" for materials a writer analyzes or interprets; Argument for materials whose claims a writer engages; and "Method" for materials from which a writer takes a governing concept or derives a manner of working. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study offers scholars in composition and communication studies an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between feminists and rhetoric in the context of edited collections. The author first recasts recovery and gender critique as inventive arts for editors, and then analyzes a selection of edited collections' framing texts to demonstrate how editors compose their collections by mediating these arts. This work reveals that an early either/or relationship between the arts of recovery and gender critique gives way to a both/and approach that opens possibilities for multiple, rich avenues of inquiry in feminist rhetorical studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author focuses on the study of writing and the study of language, The author states the noncontroversial aspect of the controversial survey of writing research, The Making of Knowledge in Composition, by Stephen North is the omission of linguistics. It further discusses a group of North American researchers of written language who applied principles and analytical tools developed by linguistics in the 1980s including Deborah Brandt, Linda Brodkey and Joseph Williams.