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      The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals

      Series Editor: Steve Parks

      Each year, a team of editors selects the best work published in the independent journals in the field of Rhetoric and Composition, following a competitive review process involving journal editors and publishers. For additional information about the series, see http://www.parlorpress.com/bestofrhetcomp.

      The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2012

      Edited by Julia Voss, Beverly Moss, Steve Parks, Brian Bailie, Heather Christiansen, and Stephanie Ceraso

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, USA

      © 2014 by Parlor Press. Individual essays in this book have been reprinted with permission of the respective copyright owners.

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      Printed in the United States of America

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      ISSN 2327-4778 (print)

      ISSN 2327-4786 (online)

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      Cover design by David Blakesley.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      Contents

       Introduction

       Julia Voss and Beverly Moss

       Community Literacy Journal

       1 Rhetorical Recipes: Women’s Literacies In and Out of the Kitchen

       Jamie White-Farnham

       Composition Forum

       2 Analogize This! The Politics of Scale and the Problem of Substance in Complexity-Based Composition

       Noah R. Roderick

       Composition Studies

       3 “So what are we working on?” Pronouns as a Way of Re-Examining Composing

       Kate Pantelides and Mariaelena Bartesaghi

       Computers AND Composition

       4 Policy Matters Now and in the Future: Net Neutrality, Corporate Data Mining, and Government Surveillance

       Heidi A. McKee

       Enculturation

       5 Re-reading Marshall McLuhan: Hectic Zen, Rhetoric, and Composition

       Rex Veeder

       Journal of Basic Writing

       6 Reflecting on the Liberal Reflex: Rhetoric and the Politics of Acknowledgment in Basic Writing

       Matthew Pavesich

       Journal of Teaching Writing

       7 Positioning the Textbook as Contestable Intellectual Space

       Kelly S. Bradbury

       Kairos

       8 Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs’ Addresses, 1977–2011

       Derek N. Mueller

       KB Journal

       9 The Meaning of the Motivorum’s Motto: “Ad bellum purificandum” to “Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore”

       Richard H. Thames

       Pedagogy

       10 Writing Time: Composing in an Accelerated World

       Jeanne Marie Rose

       Reflections

       11 Daughters Making Sense of African American Young Adult Literature in Out-of-School Zones

       Melvette Melvin Davis

       About the Editors