Outstanding Book of the Year awarded by CCCC

At the 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication Meeting in St. Louis, Cross-Language Relations in Composition by Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Kei Matsuda received a CCCC Outstanding Book Award for work in the field of composition and rhetoric. We are, of course, thrilled by this news. Not only because we're so proud of this book, but because this means that the CCCC saw fit to bestow SIU Press books with this honor three years in a row!


2012 Winner!
Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Kei Matsuda, Cross-Language Relations in Composition

“Cross-Language Relations in Composition provides readers with a well-grounded historical, theoretical, and political understanding of the role of language in the teaching of writing to an increasingly diverse student body participating in an increasingly interconnected world. . . . A potent and inspiring read that breaks with the past.”—Juan Guerra, University of Washington at Seattle

“Cross-Language Relations in Composition will change the way we think about how we teach, who we teach, and what we teach.”—Morris Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

2011 Winner: Xiaoye You, Writing in the Devil’s Tongue: A History of English Composition in China

“I read this book with relish. The English teaching profession could use more such ideologically, historically, theoretically informed accounts of language and writing from other parts of the world from equally talented and honest reporters. I would wish that anyone planning to teach language or writing in a part of the world with whose history, politics, and educational systems they are not familiar would have access to similarly intensely contextualizing information.” —Ilona Leki, author of Undergraduates in a Second Language: Challenges and Complexities of Academic Literacy Development

 

2010 Winner: David Gold, Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947

“David Gold’s book makes an important contribution to the field of rhetoric and composition studies because it exposes and examines rhetorical education in understudied college settings and highlights the work of scholar-teachers committed to providing their charges with essential language skills. Rhetoric at the Margins leads us to consider more carefully the historical significance of instruction in diverse institutions among a wide range of learners and reminds us that conservative methods and radical aims frequently coexist.”—Rhetoric Review

Two books accepted for the History Book Club!

We are pleased to announce that two of our books have recently been accepted as an alternate selection for the History Book of the Month Club, the Military Book of the Month Club, and BOMC2 (the book club's online subscription service). They will both be featured this summer!


“Why didn’t anyone think of this before: a concise and clear introduction to the problem of Lincoln and the Constitution? Thank goodness Brian Dirck did. Anyone who reads his accessible, vivid, even entertaining book will understand why Abraham Lincoln cannot be ignored in any account of the constitutional history of the United States.”—Mark E. Neely, McCabe-Grier Professor of the History of the Civil War Era at Penn State University






“It has never been easy growing up or living in the public eye. To do so under the enormous shadow cast by our 16th president would test the resiliency of even the doughtiest character. As historian Jason Emerson details in in this richly informative biography, Robert Todd Lincoln, the only one of Abraham Lincoln's children to survive into adulthood, bore his peculiar burden with quiet grace and admirable dignity.”—Ron Reagan, political commentator and author of My Father at 100