Online Rhetoric and Composition Research Resources

Here are some resources for research in writing studies (mostly rhetoric and composition). Many of these are or include bibliogrpahies on specific topics:

Comppile - http://comppile.org/ - "an inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies"; See their list of bibliographies - http://comppile.org/site/compbibs.php



The National Writing Project - http://www.nwp.org/ - "The National Writing Project (NWP) is a professional development network that serves teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. The mission of the NWP is to improve student achievement by improving the teaching of writing and improving learning in the nation’s schools."



Rhetoric and Composition Eserver - http://rhetoric.eserver.org/ - "This website is intended to list a variety of resources useful to rhetoricians. While many rhetoric and composition pages on the Web are written in conjunction with writing centers or specialize in computer-mediated communication, this page also has links to works of classical rhetoric, articles on literacy and education, comprehensive bibliographies in the field and a few miscellaneous but useful things--how to suscribe to some highly-trafficked mailing lists and links to glossaries of rhetorical terms, for example."



Rhetcomp.com - http://www.rhetcomp.com/ - "a portal to sites relevant to the field of rhetoric and composition"



Rebecca Moore Howards's Bibliographies - http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/bibs.html - bibliographies on a bunch of writing studies topics



The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing - http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/contents.html - Lists books and articles by topic and provides an annotation for each summarizing its content.