Contents

• Stories, Authority, Teaching: Making a Difference in the Composition Classroom / Susanmarie Harrington and Linda Adler-Kassner
• Sect. 1. Personal Authority: Questioning the Relationship between Individual and Community. Stories, Style, and the Exploitation of Experience / Douglas D. Hesse. Telling Stories: The Subject Is Never Just Me / Terry Myers Zawacki. Trailing the Essay with Professor Fog / Brad Peters. Using Stories to Probe Assumptions, Question Authority, and Stabilize Meaning / Emily Golson - - Sect. 2. Formal Authority: Questioning Assumptions about the Essay. La Huesera: Articulating the Skeletons of Stories and Essays / Laura Brady. Visualizing the Academic Essay / Phil Anderson and Anne Aronson. Expository Essay Form and the Future of Newer Electronic Forms as Academic Expression / Thomas Reynolds
• Sect. 3. Theoretical Authority: Questioning Assumptions about the Frameworks We Use. Once upon a Theory: Cracks in the Authoritative Chronicles of the Contact Zone / Laura Gray-Rosendale. Want to Tell a True Story about First-Year College Writing Programs? / Dawn Skorczewski. Essaying Theory: Testing Authority in Classroom Practice / Ruth M. Mirtz. Essaying as Action: Stories of Writing in Context / Ed Nagelhout