Books
Kenneth Burke in the 1930s (Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, in press). A sequal to Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, this book offers an account of Burke's complicated relationships during the Great Depression with various circles that animated his four 1930s books, Auscultation, Creation, and Revision (1932); Permanence and Change (1935); Attitudes toward History (1937); and The Philosophy of Literary Form (1941). Includes the results of substantial archival research into Burke's relationships with Popular Front groups (including the League of American Writers), literary esthetes (e.g., William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore), "New Critics" (e.g., Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom), and University of Chicago social scientists and neo-Aristotelians. With Ann George.
Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village: Conversing with the Moderns,
1915-1931 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997).
286+xx pages. In the series on American Modernist Writers--Frank
Lentricchia, general editor. A study of the early work of Kenneth
Burke, including his first essays (many of them published in The Dial),
fiction (both short stories and his novel Towards a Better Life),
poetry, and criticism (most importantly Counter-Statement, published
in 1931). Designed to orient scholars to Burke’s early work by locating
it in the conversation about modernism that was being conducted in New
York from 1915-1931 (notably in the pages of The Dial, Broom,
Secession,
S4N,
Contact,
The New Republic,
Smart Set, and other avant garde publications)
and that included Burke, Malcolm Cowley, William Carlos Williams, Marianne
Moore, Hart Crane, Allen Tate, Jean Toomer, Katherine Anne Porter, and
a great many others. The study involved substantial primary research
in the Kenneth Burke Papers housed in Pattee Library at Penn State as well
as in Burke materials in collections at Princeton, Yale, Brown, Penn, Indiana,
the Newberry Library, the Rosenbach Museum, and elsewhere. Reviewed in
Publishers Weekly, December 16, 1996;
Booklist, January 1,
1997; London Times Literary Supplement, March 7, 1997; [Sunday]
New York Times Book Review, April 20, 1997;
London Review of
Books, June 5, 1997; Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27 (1997):
85-88; University of Toronto Quarterly 66 (1997): 562-74;
Raritan
17.3 (Winter 1998): 151-60; Quarterly Journal of Speech 84 (1998):
528-30.
Edited Books
Understanding Scientific Prose (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, in the series on the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences), 388 pages. A collection of fifteen original essays (by scholars such as Carolyn Miller, Michael Halloran, Charles Bazerman, Susan Wells, Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Debra Journet, Dorothy Winsor, and Stephen Jay Gould) that together propose and demonstrate various critical approaches to scientific discourse. As editor, I conceived of the book and its various individual chapters, put together the list of contributors and assigned chapters to them, worked carefully with those contributors on drafts of their individual chapters, and edited the complete manuscript and prepared it for publication. As a contributor to the book, I wrote a substantial introduction as well as another chapter (with Gay Gragson; listed below) that takes a reader-response approach to scientific prose. Reviews: "Libre" (WPSX radio, 30-minute interview/review), September 16, 1993; Science 263 (4 February 1994): 697; IEEE Transactions on Professional Comunication 37 (June 1994): 110-111; Composition Chronicle 7 (November, 1994): 15-16; Technical Communication Quarterly 3 (1994), 343-47; Quarterly Review of Biology 69 (1994): 373-75 (see also 70 [1995]: 485-89); Technical Communication 40 (1994): 725-26; New Scientist (December 18, 1993): 43; College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 292-302; CBE [Council of Biology Editors] Views 17 (1994): 81-82; Biology and Philosophy 9 (1994): 507-14; Metascience 7 (1995): 229-32; American Literary History 7 (1995): 169-86; Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 24 (1994): 474-77, 477-82 (double review); English for Special Purposes, 14 (1995): 179-81; Rhetoric Society Quarterly 26 (1996): 67-69; Quarterly Journal of Speech 82 (1999): 82-84; Technostyle 16 (2000): 175-88. Winner of 1993 NCTE Award for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication, in the category "Best Collection of Essays."
Rhetorical Bodies (with Sharon Crowley). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. 395 pages. Collection of fifteen essays from the 1997 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. My responsiblities included helping to select and edit contributions (including ones by Lester Faigley, Celeste Condit, Christina Haas, Carole Blair, and Sue Wells), composing the introductory essay, preparing the manuscript for production, and seeing it through the publication process. Reviewed in Technical Communication 47 (2000): 425-26; JAC 20 (2000): 699-703; Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 55 (2001): 127; RSQ 31 (2001): 116-22.
Tambour. Facsimile edition (with 87-page introduction) of a "lost" modernist "little magazine" published in Paris in 1929-1930 (with Mark Morrisson). Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Reviewed in [London] Times Literary Supplement, April 26, 2002.
Textbooks
Conversations: Readings for Writing (New York: Macmillan, 1991), 1040 pages: edited collection of readings designed for college composition courses; the title implies its "socio-rhetorical" orientation. Second edition (a revision of 50% of the contents; 1080 pages), 1994. Third edition (a revision of 40% of the contents; 1098 pages), 1997. Fourth edition (a revision of 25% of the contents; 1085 pages), 2000. Fifth edition (25% revision), 2003. Sixth edition, 2005 (with Dominic Kelli Carpini).
Technical Communication (Chicago: Irwin, 1995), 760 pages: Author of three chapters (on Planning, 29-52; Audience, 53-82; and Argument, 117-150) as well as parts of several other chapters in this collaboratively written textbook. First authors and managers of the project: Mary Lay and Billie Wahlstrom; other coauthors: Stephen Doheny-Farina, Ann Hill Duin, Sherry Little, Carolyn Rude, Cynthia Selfe. Second edition, 740 pages, 2000; only four authors involved (I revised three chapters and contributed an appendix).
Good Reasons (New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1999; with Lester Faigley), 334 pages. Argument textbook intended for college writing courses. Second edition, 2003. Third edition, in press.
Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments (New York: Allyn and Bacon, 2000; with Lester Faigley), 648 pages. Second edition, 2004.
Argument in America: Essential Issues, Essential Texts. New York: Penguin, 2004. 537 pages. Edited collection of readings intended for college courses in argument.
Edited Monograph
Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Science, Rhetoric Society Quarterly
26 (1996), 136 pages. (with Leah Ceccarelli and Richard Doyle)
Articles in Books (selected)
"Composing 'The Composing Processes of an Engineer.'" Central Works in Technical Communication. Ed. Johndan Johnson-Eilola. New York: Oxford, forthcoming. three-page manuscript.
"Rhetorical Analysis: Understanding How Texts Persuade." What Writing Does and How It Does It. Ed. Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 2003. 279-307.
"Habeas Corpus: An Introduction." Rhetorical Bodies. Ed. Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. 3-15. (refereed)
"The Reader in the Text of ‘The Spandrels of San Marco’" (with Gay Gragson). Understanding Scientific Prose. Ed. Jack Selzer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. 180-202. (refereed)
"More Meanings of ‘Audience’." A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays on Written Discourse in Honor of James L. Kinneavy. Ed. Roger Cherry, Neil Nakadate, and Stephen Witte. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. 161-77. (refereed; reprinted in James C. McDonald, ed., The Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers [Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996], 72-87)
"Intertextuality and the Writing Process: An Overview." Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives. Ed. Rachel Spilka. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993. 171-80. (refereed)
"Evaluating Technical Writing" (with Davida Charney). Technical Writing: Student Samples and Teacher Responses. Ed. Sam Dragga. Minneapolis: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 1992. 11-88. (refereed)
"Critical Inquiry in a Technical Writing Course." The Writing Teacher As Researcher. Ed. Donald Daiker and Max Morenberg. New York: Heinemann, 1990. 181-218. (winner of 1991 NCTE Award for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Communication, in the category Best Article on Methods of Teaching)
"Composing Processes in Technical and Scientific Discourse." Technical Writing: Theory and Practice. Ed. Bertie Fearing and W. Keats Sparrow. New York: MLA, 1989. 43-51. (refereed)
"Arranging Business Prose." Writing in the Business Professions. Ed. Myra Kogen. Urbana: NCTE, 1989. 37-64. (refereed)
"Special Topics of Argument in Engineering Reports" (with Carolyn Miller). Writing in Nonacademic Settings. Ed. Lee Odell and Dixie Goswami. New York: Guilford, 1985. 309-41. (refereed)
"What Constitutes a ‘Readable’ Technical Style?" New Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication. Ed. Paul Anderson, Carolyn Miller, John Brockmann. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 1983. 71-89. (refereed)
"Emphasizing Rhetorical Principles in Business Writing."
Teaching
Business Writing: Challenges, Plans, Pedagogy, Research.
Ed. Jeanne Halpern. Champaign: American Business Communication
Association, 1983. 3-20.
Articles in Journals (selected)
"What Happened at the First American Writers' Congress? Kenneth Burke's 'Revolutionary Symbolism in America' Reconsidered." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 33 (2003): 47-66. (with Ann George)
"Documenting Cultures of Modernism: Selections from Tambour." PMLA 115 (2000): 1006-32. (with Mark Morrisson)
"Scrutinizing Science." College English 60 (1998): 444-450. (review essay of recent titles in the rhetoric of science)
"Introduction [to the special issue on the rhetoric of science]." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 26 (1996): 7-12.
"Kenneth Burke among the Moderns: Counter-Statement as Counter-Statement." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 26 (1996): 19-49. (winner of Charles Kneupper Award as best article in RSQ for 1996)
"Kenneth Burke at 96" (with Rosa Eberly; second author). Rhetoric Review, 12 (1993): 176-89.
"Fictionalizing the Readers of Scholarly Articles in Biology" (with Gay Gragson). Written Communication 7 (1990): 25-58.
"Jim Burden and the Structure of My Antonia." Western American Literature 24 (1989): 45-61.
"What Do you Mean, ‘Advanced’?" Rhetoric Review 4 (1986): 235-38. (review essay)
"‘Go Down, Moses’ and Go Down, Moses." Studies in American Fiction 13 (1985): 89-96.
"The Place of Readability Formulas in Technical Writing" (with Janice Redish). Technical Communication 32 (1985): 46-52.
"Exploring Options in Composing." College Composition and Communication 35 (1984): 276-84.
"The Achievement of Lodge’s Robin the Devil." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 26 (1984): 18-33.
"Resources for Teachers of Technical Writing." Technical Communication 31 (1984): 39-44.
"The Wanderer and the Meditative Tradition." Studies in Philology 80 (1983): 227-37. (reviewed in Old English News, 18 [Fall, 1984], p. 73.)
"The Composing Processes of an Engineer." College Composition and Communication 34 (1983): 178-87. (reprinted in Gloria Kitto Lewis, ed., The Informed Technical Reader)
"Merit and Degree in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi." English Literary Renaissance 11 (1981): 70-80. (reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., John Webster’s "The Duchess of Malfi" [New York: Chelsea House, 1987], 87-96.)
"Topical Allegory in Piers Plowman: Lady Meed’s B Text Debate with Conscience." Philological Quarterly 59 (1980): 257-67.
"Readability Is a Four-Letter Word." Journal of Business Communication 18 (1981): 23-34.
"Certain Cohesion Elements and the Readability of Technical Prose." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 12 (1982): 285-300.
"Another Look at Paragraphs in Technical Writing." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 10 (1980): 293-301.
"Psychological Romance in Hawthorne’s ‘The Wives of the Dead’."
Studies
in Short Fiction 16 (1979): 311-15.
Papers in Proceedings
"Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Technical Writing at Penn State." Proceedings 1983 of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. Ed. Patrick Kelley. Las Cruces, NM: ATTW, 1983. 29-44.
"A Graduate Seminar in The Theory and Practice of Technical Communication."
Proceedings
1984 of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication.
Ed. Patrick Kelley. Las Cruces, NM: ATTW, 1984. 76-89.
Notes
"An Amusing Addition to the Kenneth Burke Bibliography." Kenneth Burke Society Newsletter 11 (May 1996): 20-22.
"Some Differences between Journalism and Business Writing." ABCA [American Business Communication Association] Bulletin 46 (1983): 8-10.
"Why Not Rhetoric?" Journal of Business Communication 18 (1981): 51-53.
"A Word for Literature [in Composition Courses]," EANO Bulletin
17 (1977): 1-11.
Report
Profiles of Writing Programs in the Alliance for Undergraduate
Education (with Deborah Brandt and Erika Lindemann). University Park,
PA: The Alliance for Undergraduate Education, 1993. 80 pages.
Reviews (selected)
Review of Rousing the Nation, by Laura Browder, and The Popular Front, by Michael Denning. Review of Communication 3 (2003), forthcoming.
Review of Process, by Kay Boyle (Sandra Spanier, editor). Ohio Valley History, 2 (2002): 41-42.
Review of Audience and Rhetoric: An Archeological Composition of the Discourse Community, by James Porter. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 26 (1996), 126-29.
Review of Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas, by Norbert Wiener. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 38 (1995), 48-49.
Review of Writing across the Curriculum: A Guide to Developing Programs, edited by Susan McLeod and Margaret Soven. Composition Chronicle, 7 (March, 1994), 10-12.
Review of A Sense of Audience in Written Communication, ed. Gesa Kirsch and Duane Roen. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 21 (1991), 429-31.
Review of Effective Documentation: What Have We Learned from Research, ed. Stephen Doheny-Farina. College Composition and Communication, 41 (1990), 350-52.
Review of Business Writing Strategies and Samples, by Jeanne Halpern, et al. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 3 (1989), 109-111.
Review of The Variables of Composition, by Glenn Broadhead and Richard Freed. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 18 (Summer/Fall 1988), 285-86.
Review of Research in Technical Communication: A Bibliographic Sourcebook, ed. Debra Journet and Michael Moran. College Composition and Communication, 38 (1987), 359-60.
Review of Composition/Rhetoric: A Synthesis, by Ross Winterowd. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 17 (1987), 433-35.
Review of Courses, Components, and Exercises in Technical Communication, ed. Dwight Stevenson. Journal of Advanced Composition, 4 (1987), 221-25.
Review of Research in Composition and Rhetoric: A Bibliographic Sourcebook, ed. Michael Moran and Ronald Lunsford. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 16 (1986), 277-80.
Review of Tamburlaine the Great, ed. J. S. Cunningham. Seventeenth-Century News, 41 (1983), 88-89.
Review of International Business Communication: Theory, Practice, Teaching Throughout the World, ed. Herbert W. Hildebrandt. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 13 (1983), 83-84.
Review of Writing in the Professions, by Dixie Gowami, et al. College Composition and Communication, 33 (1982), 337-38.
Review of Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, by Joseph Williams. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 12 (1982), 188-90.
Review of Andrew Marvell: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Death, ed. R. L. Brett. Seventeeth-Century News, 39 (1981), 188-89.
Review of A Writer’s Guide: The Essential Points, by Harold H. Kolb, Jr. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 11 (Fall, 1981), 394.
Review of Edmund Waller, by Jack G. Gilbert. Seventeenth-Century News, 39 (Spring, 1981), 11-12.
Review of Sir Thomas Suckling, by Charles L. Squier. Seventeenth-Century News, 37 (1979), 75-76.
Review of A Year at a Time, by W. Alston. The
Old Northwest, 3 (1977), 220-21.
Invited Presentations (Selected)
"How to Do Rhetorical Analysis: A 'Conversation Approach with an Example.'" Univeristy of Puerto Rico--Mayaguez, October, 2001.
"Contextualizing Kenneth Burke." Brigham Young University, February, 2000.
"Kenneth Burke and the First American Writers' Congress." Keynote Presentation, Maryland Conference on Nascent Methodologies, 1998.
"‘A Great Date in History?’--October 19, 1923." University of Maryland, Department of Speech Communication, 1998.
"‘A Great Date in History?’--October 19, 1923." Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Union Square, New York City, June 17, 1997.
"‘A Great Date in History?’--October 19, 1923." Kenneth Burke Centennial Observance, Penn State Rare Books Room, 1997.
"Who Was Kenneth Burke?" Bennington College, May 6, 1997. (Burke Centenary Celebration)
"Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village." University of Texas, Austin, January, 1997.
"Teaching Composition: Argument as Conversation." University of Houston, January, 1997.
"Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village." Texas A&M University, January, 1997.
"Teaching Composition: Argument as Conversation." University of Texas at San Antonio, January, 1997.
"Teaching Rhetoric and Composition in the 1990s." Gettysburg College, May 1995.
"Conversing with the Moderns: Kenneth Burke, 1915-1931." Brigham Young University, 1995.
"Conversing with the Moderns: Kenneth Burke, 1915-1931." Ohio State University, 1995.
"Conversing with the Moderns: Kenneth Burke, 1915-1931." University of Arizona, 1994.
"The Next Generation of Technical Communications." Keynote presentation at the University of Central Florida Conference on Technical Communication, Orlando, March, 1994.
"Postmodernism and the Rhetoric of Science." Beaver College Colloquium Series, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992.
"Strange Texts: Writing Science at the End of the Twentieth Century." University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1992.
"Strange Texts: Writing Science at the End of the Twentieth Century." University of Texas at Austin, 1991.
"Politics, Cultural Contexts--and Readings in Composition Courses." University of Texas at Austin, 1991.
"The Teacher As Researcher in Technical Writing." Featured presentation at Miami University Conference on the Writing Teacher As Researcher, October 1988.
"Recent Research on Composing: Implications for Teaching." Featured presentation at the Southern Illinois University Conference on Technical and Professional Communication, October 1987.
"Fictionalizing Nonfiction." University of Maryland, August 1987.
"Theories for Technical Writing." Featured presentation at the University of Minnesota Conference on Technical Communication, July 1985.
"Evaluating Technical Discourse." Featured presentation at the NCTE Winter Workshop on Teaching Composition, Clearwater FL, January 1985.
"Incorporating Research on Composing into Business and Technical
Writing Classes." Featured presentation at the Ohio Valley Business
and Technical Writing Teachers Roundtable, Oxford, Ohio, 1983.
Other Scholarly Presentations (Selected)
"Unmasking Kenneth Burke." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, 2000.
"Exploring Kenneth Burke through the Archives." Kenneth Burke Triennial Conference, Iowa City, 1999.
"1977: An Introduction." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, 1999.
Revolutionary Symbolism in America--65 Years Later." Rhetoric Society of America, Pittsburgh, 1998.
Permanence and Change, Attitudes toward History, and the Left. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, 1998.
"What Happened at the First American Writers’ Congress?" Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, 1997.
"A Kenneth-Burke-in-Greenwich-Village Website: Student Researchers in a Community of Writers." Society for Critical Exchange Conference on Cultures of Writing, Cleveland, 1997.
"Kenneth Burke and the Teaching of Composition, 1957-1996." Conference on Composition as a Profession, Louisville, 1996.
"Burke among the Symbolists: The Early Poetry." Triannual
Kenneth Burke Conference, Pittsburgh, May, 1996.
"Kenneth Burke and the Literary Nationalists: The Aesthete:
1925 Episode." Rhetoric Society of America, Tucson, 1996.
"Burke’s Conversations with the Moderns." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, 1996.
"Conversing with the Moderns: Kenneth Burke in the 1920s." Eastern Communication Association Convention, Pittsburgh, April, 1995.
"Conversing with the Moderns: Kenneth Burke’s Counter-Statement." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington DC, March, 1995.
"Scientific and Technical Writing in a Postmodern Era." European Assocation for Research Conference on Learning and Instruction, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1994.
"Kenneth Burke and the Culture of the 1920s." Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Norfolk, May, 1994.
"Organizing Courses in Technical Communication." Conference on College Composition and Communication [part of Pre-Convention Workshop], Nashville, March, 1994.
"Burke’s Permanence and Change and Contemporary Social Constructivism." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego, California, April, 1993.
"Postmodern Rhetoric in Evolutionary Biology." American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, 1993. (three-hour session with five others, including Stephen Jay Gould)
"Trevor’s Journal." Workshop conducted at the Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1992. (sponsored by the Alliance for Undergraduate Education)
"Writing Science at a Time of Epistemological Crisis." Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1990.
"More Meanings of ‘Audience’." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 1990.
"New Directions for Research on Composing Technical Discourse." Modern Language Association, Washington, 1989.
"Research and Publication in Technical Writing." Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Rochester, 1989. (group leader, with Karen Schriver)
"A Reader-Response Approach to Scientific Prose." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Seattle, March 1989.
"The Advanced Technical Writing Course: Teacher As Researcher, Student As Research Assistant." Conference on College Composition and Communication [part of a Pre-Convention Workshop], Seattle, March 1989.
"The Writing Process in Technical Writing." Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, March 1988.
"Shakespeare, the Dilemmas of Leadership, and Business Ethics." Academy of Management Annual Conference, New Orleans, August 1987.
"Teaching Arrangement: A Rhetorical Approach." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, April 1987.
"Can the Audiences for Nonfiction Be Fictionalized?" (with Gay Gragson). New Directions in Composition Scholarship, University of New Hampshire, October 1986.
"Exploring Options in Composing." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, July 1984.
"A Graduate Seminar in the Theory and Practice of Technical Writing." Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Santa Fe, February 1984.
Pre-Convention Workshop on the Teaching of Technical Writing (with Paul Anderson, Linda Driskill, Dwight Stevenson, and Carolyn Miller). Conference on College Composition and Communication, Detroit, 1983.
"Towards a Rhetoric of Composing Styles." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1983.
"How Does an Engineer Invent?" Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, 1982.
"The Composing Processes of an Engineer." Modern Language Association, New York, 1981.
"The Rhetoric of Cohesion." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Dallas, Texas, 1981.
"Some Myths about Style in Technical Writing." Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English, 1980.
"Cohesion and Readability in Paragraphs." NCTE, Cincinnati, 1980.
"The Paragraph in Technical Writing." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington, D.C., 1980.
"Improving Your Resume and Application Letter" and "Making the Most of an Academic Job Interview." NEMLA, Hartford, Connecticut, 1979.
"The Wanderer and the Meditative Tradition." Conference
on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1978.
Jeu d’Esprit
"My Life with Joepa, Our Life with Joepa." Town and Gown, December, 1999.
"Some Noise from a Spoilsport [concerning the academic job market in technical communication, rhetoric, and composition]." ATTW Bulletin 5 (1994): 7-9.
Baseball in the Nineteenth Century (monograph). Cooperstown, NY: Society for American Baseball Research, 1986.
"Major League Baseball, 1869-1902." Sports Encyclopedia North America, volume 4. Ed. John Windhausen. New York: Academic Press International, 1991. 177-94.
Organizer and participant, parody session on "Nutrostylistics."
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, 1984.