unusually clear picture of just how composition has matured and developed as a discipline. It is a much more complex picture than used to be painted during the great growth period of the 1970s; composition is a much more creatively heterogeneous discipline. This heterogeneity long made it difficult to design appropriate bibliographical tools, but the same heterogeneity is what makes composition bibliographically interesting. Perhaps it is also the source of the field's continuing intellectual interest.
Earlier resources, including bibliographical tools in border disciplines, are described in Patrick Scott and Bruce Castner, "Reference Sources for Composition Research: A Practical Survey,"College English 45 ( December 1983): 75668.
On composition journals, see the evaluative review by Robert J. Connors, "Journals in Composition Studies," College English 46 ( April 1984): 348-65, or the two enumerative lists by Chris M. Anson: "A Computerized List of Journals Publishing Articles in Composition," College Composition and Communication 37 ( May 1986): 154-66, and (with Hildy Miller), "Journals in Composition: An Update," College Composition and Communication 39 ( May 1988): 198-216. The estimate of tenfold growth comes from comparing Larson's annual CCC list from the mid-1970s with Lindemann Longman Bibliography (see below) from ten years later; so of the increase could be explained as the more comprehensive bibliographical coverage in Lindemann.
A useful short list of special-topic bibliographies is section 2 of Bizzell and Herzberg, Bedford Bibliography, or see Scott and Castner, pp. 763-64. On serial bibliographies, see sections below.
Robin C. Alston, A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800 ( Leeds: Arnold, 1965-72, rev. 1974), esp. vol. 6 "Rhetoric . . ."; "Current Bibliography of Books on Rhetoric," in Rhetoric Society Newsletter(later Rhetoric Society Quarterly), edited from the Philosophy Department, St. Cloud University, MN; and the Southern Illinois UP reprint series, Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address.
For a list of relevant general reference tools, and period bibliographies in
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Publication Information: Book Title: An Introduction to Composition Studies. Contributors: Erika Lindemann - editor, Gary Tate - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1991. Page Number: 91.
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