1. Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing / Mina P. Shaughnessy -- 2. The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University / Mike Rose -- 3. A Journey into Speech / Michelle Cliff -- 4. Between Students' Language and Academic Discourse: Interlanguage as Middle Ground / Eleanor Kutz -- 5. What Is Literacy? / James Paul Gee -- 6. From Outside, In / Barbara Mellix -- 7. From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle / Min-zhan Lu -- 8. Initiating ESL Students into the Academic Discourse Community: How Far Should We Go? / Ruth Spack -- 9. A Common Ground: The Essay in the Academy / Kurt Spellmeyer -- 10. The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition / Fan Shen -- 11. Evaluating Second Language Essays in Regular Composition Classes: Toward a Pluralistic U.S. Rhetoric / Robert E. Land, Jr. and Catherine Whitley -- 12. Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues / Peter Elbow.

13. Arts of the Contact Zone / Mary Louise Pratt -- 14. Questioning Academic Discourse / Vivian Zamel -- 15. Dancing With Professors: The Trouble With Academic Prose / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- 16. The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse / Lisa D. Delpit -- 17. Discourse, Artifacts, and the Ozarks: Understanding Academic Literacy / Linda Lonon Blanton -- 18. The Ownership of English / H. G. Widdowson -- 19. Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of Faculty and ESL Students Across the Curriculum / Vivian Zamel -- 20. Borrowing Others' Words: Text, Ownership, Memory, and Plagiarism / Alastair Pennycook -- 21. The (In)visibility of the Person(al) in Academe / Ruth Spack -- 22. Blurred Voices: Who Speaks for the Subaltern? / Norma Gonzalez.