Bibliography: Teaching English and Writing (Secondary and Post-Secondary)

The following bibliography was created and is maintained exclusively by me. The first section represents a starting point for teachers-in-training and greatly reflects my own preferred texts. The second section is meant to be exhaustive and will be updated as more published and/or unpublished scholarship is found. PDFs are provided only for extremely dated work or those already available to the public. Nonetheless, this bibliography may not be partially or fully reproduced without prior approval.

1. General Resources for Grades 6-12
2. Developmental/Remedial/Basic Writing + Pedagogies
3. Ephemera: (Old) Textbooks Covering Grammar and Composition
4. Relevant Academic Journals

• Applebee, Arthur N. et al. 2003. "Discussion-Based Approaches to Developing Understanding: Classroom Instruction and Student Performance in Middle and High School English." American Educational Research Journal, 40(3): 685-730.
• Appleman, Deborah. 2009. Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• Atwell, Nancie. 2014. In the Middle: A Lifetime of Learning About Writing, Reading, and Adolescents (3rd ed). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Beach, Richard et al. 2021. Teaching Literature to Adolescents (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Buehl, Doug. 2013. Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning (4th ed). Newark, DE: International Literacy Association.
• ———. 2017. Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines (2nd ed). Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
• Couros, George. 2015. The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity. San Diego, CA: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.
• Davis, Meredith. 2017. Teaching Design: A Guide to Curriculum and Pedagogy for College Design Faculty and Teachers Who Use Design in Their Classrooms. New York, NY: Allworth Press.
• Emdin, Christopher. 2017. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
• Feldman, Joe. 2018. Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
• Gallagher, Kelly. 2009. Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
• ———. 2011. Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
• Gallagher, Kelly and Penny Kittle. 2018. 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Hammond, Zaretta L. 2015. Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
• Hillocks Jr., George. 2011. Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• hooks, bell. 1994. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Johnston, Peter H. 2012. Opening Minds: Using Language to Change Lives. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
• Kittle, Penny. 2012. Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Lukianoff, Greg and Jonathan Haidt. 2018. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Harlow, UK: Penguin Books.
• McComiskey, Bruce. 2017. Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
• Muhammad, Gholdy. 2020. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.
• McTighe, Jay and Steve Ferrara. 2021. Assessing Student Learning by Design: Principles and Practices for Teachers and School Leaders. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• McTighe, Jay and Grant Wiggins. 2013. Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
• McTighe, Jay and Harvey F. Silver. 2020. Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
• Nystrand, Martin. 2006. "Research on the Role of Classroom Discourse as It Affects Reading Comprehension." Research in the Teaching of English, 40(4): 392-412.
• Pilgrim, Jodi and Elda E. Martinez. 2013. "Defining Literacy in the 21st Century: A Guide to Terminology and Skills." Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 1(1): 60-69.
• Postman, Neil and Charles Weingartner. 1969. Teaching as a Subversive Activity. New York, NY: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
• Schade-Eckert, Lisa. 2006. How Does It Mean? Engaging Reluctant Readers Through Literary Theory. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Schwartz, Kyle. 2016. I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press.
• Serravallo, Jennifer. 2015. The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• ———. 2017. The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• ———. 2018. Understanding Texts & Readers: Responsive Comprehension Instruction with Leveled Texts. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Smith, Dominique, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey. 2015. Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
• Stevens, Dannelle D. and Antonia J. Levi. 2005. Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC.
• Tovani, Cris. 2021. Why Do I Have to Read This? Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Relucant Students. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
• Wiggins, Grant and Jay McTighe. 2005. Understanding by Design (2nd ed). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
• Wormeli, Rick. 2018. Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

• Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. 2002. Basic Writing as a Political Act: Public Conversations About Writing and Literacies. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Adler-Kassner, Linda and Elizabeth Wardle. 2015. Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.
• Bailey, Thomas R., Shanna Smith Jaggars, and Davis Jenkins. 2015. "Helping Underprepared Students." In Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success, pp. 119-143. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Barhoum, Sim. 2016. "Community College Developmental Writing Programs Most Promising Practices: What the Research Tells Educators." Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 41(12): 791-808.
• Bartholomae, David. 1993. "The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum." Journal of Basic Writing, 12(1): 4-21.
• Bean, John C. 2011. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
• Berlin, James A. 1984. Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• ———. 1987. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Bernstein, Susan Naomi. 2011. "Basic Writing: In Search of a New Map." Modern Language Studies, 40(2): 60-75.
• ———. 2012. Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's.
• Bir, Elizabeth A. 2007. Teaching Matters: Pedagogical Ideologies and Success in the Basic Writing Classroom. Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
• Bloom, Lynn Z., Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White (eds). 1996. Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Broussard, Mary Snyder. 2017. Reading, Research, and Writing: Teaching Information with Process-Based Research Assignments. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Brunk-Chavez, Beth and Elaine Fredericksen. 2008. "Predicting Success: Increasing Retention and Pass Rates in College Composition." WPA: Writing Program Administrator, 32(1): 76-96.
• Coffin, Caroline et al. 2005. Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education. London, UK: Routledge.
• Cohen, Arthur M., Florence B. Brawer, and Carrie B. Kisker. 2014. "Developmental Education." In The American Community College (6th ed), pp. 202-225. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
• Cohn, Jenae. 2021. Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press.
• Connors, Robert John. 1980. A Study of Rhetorical Theories for College Writing Teachers. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University.
• ———. 1997. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Connors, Robert John and Andrea A. Lunsford. 1988. "Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research." College Composition and Communication, 39(4): 395-409.
• Cop, Michael and Hunter Hatfield. 2016. "Which Grammatical Errors Do First-Year University Students Make and Do Those Errors Matter? A Focusing Inquiry." New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work. 13(1): 22-38.
• Duttagupta, Chitralekha and Robert J. Miller. 2015. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing (4th ed). Bedford.
• Elbow, Peter. 2000. Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Enos, Theresa. 1987. A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers. Random House.
• Farrell, Thomas J. 1975. "Reading in the Community College." College English, 37(1): 40-46.
• Graham, Steve. 2019. "Changing How Writing Is Taught." Review of Research in Education, 43(1): 277-303.
• Graham, Steve and Dolores Perin. 2007. Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools. New York, NY: Carnegie Corporation.
• Haswell, Richard. 1988. "Error and Change in College Student Writing." Written Communication, 5: 470-499.
• Hochman, Judith C. 2009. Teaching Basic Writing Skills: Strategies for Effective Expository Writing Instruction. Longmont, CO: Cambium Learning Group.
• Horner, Bruce. 1996. "Discoursing Basic Writing." College Composition and Communication, 47(2): 199-222.
• ———. 2011. "Relocating Basic Writing." Journal of Basic Writing, 30(2): 5-23.
• Irmscher, William F. 1979. Teaching Expository Writing. New York, NY: Rinehart and Winston.
• James, H.W. 1926. "A National Survey of the Grading of College Freshman Composition." The English Journal, 15(8): 579-587.
• Johnson, T.R. 2007. Teaching Composition: Background Readings. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's.
• Jonaitis, Leigh A. 2012. "Troubling Discourse: Basic Writing and Computer-Mediated Technologies." Journal of Basic Writing, 31(1): 36-58.
• Lindemann, Erika. 2001. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Lunsford, Andrea A. and Karen J. Lundsford. 2008. "'Mistakes Are a Fact of Life': A National Comparative Study." College Composition and Communication, 59(4): 781-806.
• Murphy, James J. (ed). 1990. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Twentieth-Century America. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press.
• Norris, Leslie Denise. 2012. The Effects of Digital Technology on Basic Writing. Ph.D. dissertation, Old Dominion University.
• Otte, George and Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk. 2010. Basic Writing. Parlor Press.
• Perin, Dolores and Jodi Patrick Holschuh. 2019. "Teaching Academically Underprepared Postsecondary Students." Review of Research in Education, 43: 363-393.
• Ritter, Kelly. 2009. Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Roemer, Marjorie, Lucille M. Schultz, and Russel K. Durst. 1999. "Reframing the Great Debate on First-Year Writing." College Composition and Communication, 50(3): 377-392.
• Rose, Mike. 1985. "The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University." College English, 47(4): 341-359.
• Rosenwasser, David and Jill Stephen. 2006. "Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them." In David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen (eds) Writing Analytically (4th ed), pp. 349-384.
• Sacher, Cassandra L.O. 2016. "The Writing Crisis and How to Address It through Developmental Writing Classes." Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 32(2): 46-61.
• Serravallo, Jennifer. 2017. The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Shaughnessy, Mina. 1976. "Diving in: An Introduction to Basic Writing." College Composition and Communication, 27(3): 234-239.
• ———. 1979. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. Oxford University Press.
• Siegal, Meryl and Betsy Gilliland. 2021. Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
• Sloan, Gary. 1990. "Frequency of Errors in Essays by College Freshmen and by Professional Writers." College Composition and Communication, 41(3): 299-308.
• Spier, Troy E. 2021. "Basic/Developmental Writing Course Descriptions: A Study in Critical Corpus Stylistics." Language. Text. Society, 8(2): 1-23.
• Stine, Linda J. 2010. "Teaching Basic Writing in a Web-Enhanced Framework." Journal of Basic Writing, 29(1): 33-55.
• Tate, Gary et al. 2014. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Torrance, Mark, Glyn V. Thomas, and Elizabeth J. Robinson. 2000. "Individual Differences in Undergraduate Essay-Writing Strategies: A Longitudinal Study." Higher Education, 39(2): 181-200.
• Villanueva, Victor. 2013. "Subversive Complicity and Basic Writing Across the Curriculum." Journal of Basic Writing, 32(1): 97-110.
• Warner, John. 2018. Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• White, Edward M. and William DeGenaro. 2016. "Basic Writing and Disciplinary Maturation: How Chance Conversations Continue to Shape the Field." Journal of Basic Writing, 35(1): 5-22.
• Xu, Di. 2016. "Assistance or Obstacles? The Impact of Different Levels of English Remediation on Under-Prepared Students in Community Colleges." Educational Researcher, 45: 496-507.

• Ash, John (1810) [1763]. Grammatical Institutes: or, An Easy Introduction to Dr. Lowth's English Grammar. London, Great Britain.
• Bingham, Caleb. 1815. The Young Lady's Accidence, or, A Short and Easy Introduction to English Grammar, Designed Principally for the Use of Young Learners, More Especially Those of the Fair Sex, though Proper for Either. Boston, MA: Samuel T. Armstrong.
• Blair, Hugh D.D. 1822. An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick. Concord, NH: Hill and Moore.
• Butler, Noble. 1846. A Practical Grammar of the English Language. Louisville, KY: John P. Morton & Co.
• Cole, William H. 1870. The Institute Reader and Normal Class-Book, for the Use of Teachers' Institutes and Normal Schools, and for Self-Training in the Art of Reading. Cincinnatti, OH: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.
• DuBois, Dorothea. 1797. A Compendious Grammar: In Which the Principles of the English Language Are Methodically Digested into Plain and Easy Rules. Glasgow, Great Britain: J. and M. Robertson.
• Fisher, Anne. 1780. A Practical New Grammar: With Exercises of Bad English: Or, an Easy Guide to Speaking and Writing the English Language Properly and Correctly. Leeds, UK: John Binns.
• Gardiner, Beverley Jane. 1799. The Young Ladies' English Grammar; Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners.. London, Great Britain: Thomas Wilson and Robert Spench, High-Ousegate.
• Harvey, Thomas Wadleigh. 1868. A Practical Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools of Every Grade. Cincinnati, IL/New York, NY: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.
• Jevons, W. Stanley. 1872. Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms [3rd ed.]. New York, NY: Macmillan and Co.
• Johnson, Samuel. 1766. A Dictionary of the English Language in Which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, Explained in their Different Meanings and Authorized by the Names of the Writers in whose Works They Are Found. London, Great Britain: A. Millar.
• Kellogg, Brainerd. 1886. A Text-Book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with Exhaustive Practice in Composition. A Course of Practical Lessons Adapted for Use in High Schools and Academies and in the Lower Classes of College. New York, NY: Maynard, Merrill, & Co.
• Lily, William. 1709 [1513]. A Short Introduction of Grammar, Generally to be Used: Compiled and Set Forth for the Bringing Up of All Those, that Intend to Attain to the Knowledge of the Latin Tongue.
• Lowth, Robert. 17xx. A Short Introduction to English Grammar: With Critical Notes. London, Great Britain: J. Johnson.
• McElroy, John G.R. 1885. The Structure of English Prose: A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric. Philadelphia, PA: Collins Printing House.
• Murray, Lindley. 1823. English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners with an Appendix Containing Rules and Observations for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy. Hallowell, Canada: Goodale, Glazier & Co. and C. Spaulding.
• Nesfield, John C. 1901. Junior Course of English Composition. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company.
• ———. 1903. Senior Course of English Composition. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company.
• ———. 1908. Manual of English Grammar and Composition. London, UK: Macmillan and Co.
• Newcomer, Alphonso G. 1893. A Practical Course in English Composition. Boston, MA: Ginn and Company.
• Newman, Samuel Phillips. 1827. A Practical System of Rhetoric, or the Principles and Rules of Style, Inferred from Examples of Writing. Portland, OR: Wm. Hyde.
• Parker, Richard Green. 1832. Progressive Exercises in English Composition. Boston, MA: Lincoln and Edmands.
• ———. 1849. Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with a Series of Introductory Lessons, Particularly Designed to Familiarize Readers with the Pauses and Other Marks in General Use, and Lead Them to the Practice of Modulation and Inflection of the Voice. New York, NY: A.S. Barnes & Co.
• Priestly, Joseph. 1772. The Rudiments of English Grammar, Adapted to the Use of Schools; with Notes and Observations, for the Use of Those Who Have Made Some Proficiency in the Language. London, Great Britain: T. Becket and Co.
• Putnam, Samuel. 1826/1828 [1831]. The Analytical Reader: Containing Lessons in Simultaneous Reading & Defining, with Spelling from the Same, to Which are Added Questions and References to an Appendix, Containing Sketches of Characters, Persons and Places Alluded to in the Work. Dover, NH: Samuel C. Stevens.
• Reed, Alonzo and Brainerd Kellogg. 1879. Graded Lessons in English: An Elementary English Grammar, Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room. New York, NY: Effingham Maynard & Co.
• Tower, David Bates. 1859. Tower's Common School Grammar; with Models of Clausal, Phrasal, and Verbal Analysis and Parsing; Gradually Developing the Construction of the English Sentence. Boston, MA: Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Company.
• Ward, William. 1767. An Essay on Grammar, as it May be Applied to the English Language. In Two Treatises. York, Great Britain: A. Ward.
• Watson, James Madison. 1858. The National School Primer, or Primary Word-Builder. New York, NY: American Book Company.
• Webster, Noah. 1804. A Grammatical Institute of the English Language: Compressing an Easy, Concise, and Systematiic Method of Education. New York, NY: E. Duyckinck.
• ———. 1822. A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language. New Haven, CT: Howe & Spalding.
• ———. 1831. An Improved Grammar of the English Language. New Haven, CT: Sidney Babcock.
• Weld, Allen H. 1848. Parsing Book: Containing Rules of Syntax, and Models for Analyzing and Transposing: Together with Selections of Prose and Poetry from Writers of Standard Authority. Portland, ME: Sanborn & Carter.
• Whiting, Joseph. 1844/1845. The Principles of English Grammar: Adapted to the Use of Common Schools. Detroit, MI: A. McFarran.

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