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Lana Lewis and Maddie Nelson-Turner

Dr. Craig Wynne
English 320-01
March 2nd, 2015
College English: Collaborative Journal Analysis [Assignment #2]
College English is a scholarly journal associated with the National Council of Teachers of
English, published on a bi-monthly basis. Since its establishment in 1964, College English has
produced seventy-seven volumes, the current format consisting of six issues per volume and four
articles per issue. The following statement of purpose is available on the College English
database:
College English is the professional journal for the college scholar-teacher. CE publishes
articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and
pedagogy, linguistics, literacy, reading theory, pedagogy, and professional issues related
to the teaching of English. Each issue also includes opinion pieces, review essays, and
letters from readers. Contributions may work across traditional field boundaries; authors
represent the full range of institutional types. (College English)
For the purpose of this analysis, the authors have selected the seven most recently
published issues (January 2014 to January 2015). Every article addresses at least one of three
central themes: pedagogic practices, rhetoric composition, or demographic relationships
regarding academic writing and/or teaching written composition. Methodology ranges from
contributing to new scholarship through critiquing existing scholarship or introducing a new
perspective of prevalent scholarly debate. The primary objective is created through the
intersection of content and methodology; these articles advocate the review and reformation of
literary academia.
Why should scholars include College English in their professional arsenal? College
English is not just for the average scholar, but for every scholar: professor, teacher, researcher,

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and writer. The extensiveness of its content promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the English
discipline. This benefits not only the English scholar, but other disciplines that integrate elements
of the English discipline into their own. Finally, this scholarly journal seeks to constantly rethink
and revise the what is (existing scholarship) and raise the questions of the what if (new
scholarship).

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College English Volumes Index
1. College English 77.3, January 2015 [Kelly Ritter, ed.]
a. Between the Eyes: The Racialized Gaze as Design
b. Expanding Working-Class Rhetorical Traditions: The Moonlight Schools and
Alternative Solidarities among Appalachian Women, 1911 to 1920
c. (Re)Writing Local Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Histories: Negotiating Shared
Meaning in Public Rhetoric Partnerships
d. Review: Reproductive (In)Capacities: New Perspectives on Pregnancy, Maternity,
Sexual Autonomy, and Gender
2. College English 77.2, November 2014 [Kelly Ritter, ed.]
a. (Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening, Bodily Learning, and the
Composition of Sonic Expressions
b. Toward a Twenty-First-Century Federal Writers Project
c. Symposium: Revaluing the Work of the Editor
d. Review: We Have Always Already Been Multimodal: Histories of Engagement
with Multimodal and Experimental Composition
3. College English 77.1, September 2014 [Kelly Ritter, ed.]
a. The Composition Specialist as Flexible Expert: Identity and Labor in the History
of Composition
b. What is the value of the GED?
c. Symposium: Off Track and On: Valuing the Intellectual Work of Non-TenureTrack Faculty
d. Review: English Only and Multilingualism in Composition Studies: Policy,
Philosophy, and Practice
4. College English 76.6, July 2014 [Jaqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander, eds.]
a. From the Guest Editors: Reimagining the Social Turn: New Work from the Field
b. Writing Material
c. Sinners Welcome: The Limits of Rhetorical Agency
d. Rhetorical Education and Student Activism
e. Unwelcome Stories, Identity Matters, and Strategies for Engaging in CrossBoundary Discourses
f. One Train Can Hide Another: Critical Materialism for Public Composition
g. Response: Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition in the Age of Obama
5. College English 76.5, May 2014 [Kelly Ritter, ed.]
a. Emerging Voices: Talking over the Fence: Writing in Turn-of-the-Century Farm
Journals
b. Collaboration (in) Theory: Reworking the Social Turns Conversational
Imperative
c. Liberal Learning, Professional Training, and Disciplinarity in the Age of
Educational Reform: Remodeling General Education
d. Review: Theory, Practice, and the Disciplinary Cross-Narrative

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6. College English 76.4, March 2014 [Kelly Ritter, ed.]

a. Emerging Voices: The Hands of God at Work: Negotiating between Western
and Religious Sponsorship in Indonesia
b. Repositioning Curriculum Design: Broadening the Who and How of Circular
Invention
c. Toward a Queerly Classed Analysis of Shame: Attunement to Bodies in English
Studies
d. Closing Deals with Hamlets Help: Assessing the Instrumental Value of an
English Degree
7. College English 76.3, January 2014 [Kelly Ritter, ed.]
a. Revising the Menu to Fit the Budget: Grocery Lists and Other Rhetorical
Heirlooms
b. Multilingual Writing as Rhetorical Attunement
c. Theory in the Archives: Fred Newton Scott and John Dewey on Writing the Social
Organism
d. What is College English?: Some Reflections

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Works Cited
College English. College English. National Council of Teachers of English, 1998-2015. Web.
25 February 2015. <http://www.ncte.org/journals/ce>
College English-Individual Issues. College English. National Council of Teachers of English,
1998-2015. Web. 25 February 2015. <http://www.ncte.org/journals/ce/issues>