ABSTRACT
According to her own recollections, Theresa Enos was part of the 1.5 generation in rhetoric and composition. As she discusses in the fi rst essay in this section, she began her graduate career in the 1970s, just as Ed Corbett, Janice Lauer, James Kinneavy, Richard Young, Ross Winterowd, and other “pioneers” were founding some of the fi rst doctoral programs. Along with other graduates in the 1980s, Theresa entered the fi eld just as traditional assumptions about rhetoric and composition were being called into question. Unlike some of the contributors to those debates, Theresa had the opportunity to study rhetoric before she began teaching composition. That made all the difference for her. From her commitment to the conjunction of rhetoric and composition, she started her career with two works that set out her guiding concern for theory in practice: her signature journal, Rhetoric Review, founded in 1982, and her fi rst book, A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers, published fi ve years later. Her book soon became a standard reference source, and she went on to publish more than a half dozen other such resources, including her Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition in 1996. Back in the 1980s there were few such research tools in rhetoric and composition, for scholars were just beginning to survey the expanding areas of study. That process-the process of recollecting and recomposing-continues in the readings gathered in this section.
