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Selected Books, Articles, and Reviews About Hairston’s Work

Anderson, Jonathan Barney. “Critical Thinking and Ideology: A Study of Composition’s Secondary Curricula.” Thesis. California State U, San Bernardino, 2002.

Ashton-Jones, Evelyn. Rev. of Successful Writing, by Maxine Hairston. College Composition and Communication. 44.1 (1993): 105–111.

Bell, James. “Seismic Overstatement: Challenging the Paradigm Shift in Composition.” English in Texas, 26.3 (1995): 45–49.

Blom, Thomas E. “Counterstatement: Response to Maxine Hairston, ‘The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing’ (with a Reply by Maxine Hairston).” College Composition and Communication, 35.4 (1984): 489–94.

Buckley, Ed. “Comments of James B. Vopat on Macrorie and Wallace Douglas on Hirsch.” College English 41.1 (1979) 108–109.

Carter, Michael. “Problem Solving Reconsidered: A Pluralistic Theory of Problems.” College English 50.5 (1988) 551–565.

Catron, Douglas M. Rev. of A Contemporary Rhetoric, by Maxine Hairston. The South Central Bulletin 38.2 (1978): 42–43.

Elliott, Gary D. Rev. of A Contemporary Rhetoric, by Maxine Hairston. The South Central Bulletin 36.1 (1976): 30.

Harris, Joseph. “Revisions: Déjà vu All Over Again.” College Composition and Communication 57.3 (2006) 535–542.

Holdstein, Deborah. “Re-Visions: Rethinking Hairston’s ‘Breaking Our Bonds’.” College Composition and Communication 57.3 (2006): 523–524.

Jolliffe, David, Michael Keene, Mary Trachsel, and Ralph Voss, eds. Against the Grain: A Volume in Honor of Maxine Hairston. Cresskill: Hampton, 2002.

Edited by several of Maxine Hairston’s former graduate students, this book contains a collection of selected Hairston articles and several essays about Hairston’s academic career and influences. Hairston’s pieces in Part I of this volume include: “Carl Rogers’ Alternative to Traditional Rhetoric” (1976), “Not All Errors Are Created Equal” (1981), “The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing” (1982), “Working with Advanced Writers” (1984), “Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections” (1985), “Bringing Aristotle’s Enthymeme into the Composition Classroom” (1986), “Different Products, Different Processes: A Theory About Writing” (1986), “On Not Being a Composition Slave” (1986), “Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing” (1992), and “Against The Grain” (1993). Part II of this book contains essays about Hairston’s influences in the field of composition and in compositionists’ lives. The topics of these essays range from the ways Hairston mentored her students to the ways people have disagreed with, reconsidered, or worked to improve upon her ideas. A third section of this volume is interspersed throughout Part II, and it contains short, personal essays about Hairston that are written by other writing teachers. Themes that run throughout the book include Hairston’s cross-disciplinary influences, her concern for the respect that is owed to students and other composition teachers (particularly women), and her focus on the future of college composition.

Harris, Joseph. “Re-Visions: Deja Vu All Over Again.” College Composition and Communication 57.3 (2006): 535–542.

Lynn, Steven. “Reading the Writing Process: Toward a Theory of Current Pedagogies.” College English 49.8 (1987): 902–910.

McLeod, Susan H. “Re-Visions: ‘Breaking our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections’, Twenty Years Later.” College Composition and Communication 57.3 (2006): 525–534.

Medrano, Beth H. Rev. of The Riverside Reader, by Maxine Hairston and Joseph Trimmer. The South Central Bulletin 41.3 (1981): 80.

Miller, Robert A. Rev. of A Contemporary Reader, by Maxine Hairston. College Composition and Communication 26.1 (1975): 44–47.

Morris, Barbara, and Ann Humphreys. Rev. of Successful Writing: A Rhetoric for Advanced Composition, by Maxine Hairston. College Composition and Communication 35.2 (1984): 243–47.

Reeve, Paul G. Rev. of A Contemporary Rhetoric, by Maxine Hairston, and Instructor’s Manual, by Maxine Hairston. The South Central Bulletin 42.3 (1982): 107.

Shramek, Dennis Rev. of The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers, by Maxine Hairston and John J. Ruszkiewicz. College Composition and Communication 43.2 (1992): 272–276.

Toner, Lisa. “Rhetorical Prudence and Ethics: Writing as Cultural Criticism vs. Writing as Moral and Civic Thinking.” CCCC Annual Meeting. Nashville, 16–19 Mar. 1994.

Trimbur, John, Robert G. Wood, Ron Strickland, William H. Thelin, William J. Rouster, Toni Mester, and Maxine Hairston. “Responses to Maxine Hairston, ‘Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing’ and Reply.” College Composition and Communication 44.2 (1993): 248–255.