Making all the right moves: Foucault, journals, and the authorization of discourse

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-41

  Mcnabb, Richard ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (74)

1. Robert J. Connors, 'Journals in Composition Studies," College English 46 (1994): 351
2. Ibid., 352
3. Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon 1972): 216
4. Bruce Hertzberg, 'Michel Foucault's Rhetorical Theory,' Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age, ed. Patricia Harkin and John Schilb (New York: Modern Language Association 1991): 76
5. Ronald Schleifer and James Comas, 'The Ethics of Publishing," The Eighteenth Century29 (1998): 62
6. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, 216
7. Ibid., 217
8. Peter J. Frost and Ronald N. Taylor, 'Partisan Perspective: A MultipleLevel Interpretation of the Manuscript Review Process in Social Science ]ouma\s,'Publishing in the Organizational Sciences, 2nd ed., ed. Peter Frost and L.L. Cummings (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 1995): 13
9. See Peter Vandenberg, 'The Politics of Knowledge Dissemination: Academic Journals in Composition Studies' (diss., Texas Christian University, 1993). See also James A. Berlin, Rhetoric and Reality (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press 1987).
10. Vandenberg, 'The Politics of Knowledge Dissemination,' 55
11. Maureen Daly Goggin, 'Composing A Discipline: The Role of Scholarly Journals in the Disciplinary Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition Since 1950,' Rhetoric Review 15 (1997): 328
12. Quoted in Stephen North, The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook 1987): 15
13. Erwin Smigel and H. L. Ross, 'Factors in Editorial Decision," American Sociologists (1970): 22
14. Charles Schuster, The Politics of Promotion,' The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary, ed. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook 1991): 86
15. Maxine Hairston, 'The Winds of Change: Thomas Kühn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing," College Composition and Comimmica-tion 33(1982):85
16. Ibid., 79;
17. sec also Vandenberg, The Politics of Knowledge Dissemination,' 68-9.
18. Personal correspondence with editor
19. Richard McNabb, 'All the Right Moves: Recognizing (In)visible Gestures in Academic Publishing," unpublished manuscript, 85. For a similar study, see Maureen Daly Goggin, 'The Shaping of a Discipline: An Historical Study of the Authorizing Role of Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 1950-1990' (diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 1994).
20. McNabb,'All the Right Moves,'85
21. Ibid.
22. Personal correspondence
23. Goggin, 'Composing,' 72
24. Personal correspondence
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. North, The Making of Knowledge in Composition, 23
30. Ibid.
31. Quoted in Vandenberg, The Politics of Knowledge Dissemination,' 74
32. Thomas Newkirk, The Politics of Composition Research: The Conspiracy Against Experience,' The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary, ed. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook 1991): 133
33. Janice Lauer, 'Composition Studies: Dappled Discipline,' Rhetoric Review 3 (1984): 24
34. Vandenberg, The Politics of Knowledge Dissemination,' 80
35. Patricia Harkin, The Postdisciplinary Politics of Lore," Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age, ed. Patricia Harkin and John Schilb (New York: Modern Language Association 1991): 126
36. Foucault, The Archaeology ofKnowledge, 220
37. Ibid., 222
38. Ibid., 223
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid., 224
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. Stephen Toulmin, Human Understanding, Vol. I (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1972): 274. See also Goggin, 'Composing,' 231.
49. Michael Pacanowsky and Mary S. Strine, 'The Grand Scrivener: Text and Commentary,' Publishing in the Organizational Sciences, ed. Peter Frost and L.L. Cummings (Homewood, IL: Irwin 1985): 231
50. College Composition and Communication 18 (1967): 208
51. Goggin, 'Composing,' 330;
52. Anne Herrington, 'The First Twenty Years of Research in the Teaching of English and the Growth of a Research Community in Composition Studies,' Research in the Teaching of English 23 (1989): 119
53. Herrington, 'The First Twenty Years,' 118
54. See also Goggin, 'Composing/ 330.
55. All articles published in Volume 1 (1967) of RTE.
56. Herrington,'The First Twenty Years,' 119
57. McNabb, 'All the Right Moves,' 94
58. Stanley Deetz, 'The Social Production of Knowledge and the Commercial Artifact,' Publishing in the Organizational Sciences, ed. Peter Frost and L.L. Cummings (Homewood, IL: Irwin 1985): 45
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid., 53
61. Ibid.
62. Toulmin, Human Understanding, 270
63. Richard Gebhardt, 'Theme Issue Feedback and Fallout,' College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 295
64. Marian Sciachitano, 'Introduction: Feminist Sophistics Pedagogy Group,' A Symposium on Feminist Experiences in the Composition Classroom, . College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 298
65. Ibid.
66. McNabb, 'All the Right Moves,' 98
67. Ibid., 99
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid.
70. Smigel and Ross, 'Factors in Editorial Decision,'110
71. Karl Weick, 'Editing Innovation into Administrative Science Quarterly,'
72. Publishing in the Organizational Sciences, 2nd ed., ed. Peter Frost and L.L. Cummings (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 1995): 288
73. Elizabeth Ervin, 'Interdisciplinarity or "An Elaborate Edifice Built on Sand?" Rethinking Rhetoric's Place,' Rhetoric Review 12 (1993): 7
74. I thank Dr. Theresa Enos, editor of Rhetoric Review, for access to RR archives and permission to use my findings. I also thank Dr. Edmund Miller and Dr. Katherine Hill-Miller for their insightful comments on an earlier version of this essay.