Selected Publications
Representative Publications:

"Milton's Salvational Aesthetic." Journal of Religion, 1966.

"The Poet as Casuist:Herbert's 'Church Porch,'" Genre,   Vol. IV, No. 2, 1971.

"Reflections on True and False Knowledge: A Homily for English Teachers." Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1981.

"Literacy as a Form of Courage." Journal of Reading, 1981.

"Invisible Writing: Investigating Cognitive Processes in Composition." College Composition and Communication, 1983.

"Contexts for Competence in Composition." The Quarterly, October, 1987.
 
"Teacher Development and the Revolution in Teaching," English Journal, April 1988
 
"Thinking and the Liberation of Attention: The Uses of Free and Invisible Writing." Chapter in Nothing Begins with an N: Freewriting Reconsidered. Pat Belanoff, Peter Elbow, and Sheryl Fontaine, eds. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.

"Transactions Between Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Literature." Chapter in Literature Instruction: Practice and Policy. James Flood and Judith Langer, eds. Scholastic Press: Leadership, Policy, and Research series, 1994.

"Toward the Separation of School and State." Language Arts, Vol. 75, February, 1998.

“Politics and the English Language Arts.” Chapter in The Fate of Progressive Language Policies and Practices. C. Dudley-Marling & C. Edelsky, eds. NCTE, 2001.

The Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their Readers. Heinemann, 2003.

“College Writing, Academic Literacy, and the Intellectual Community: California Dreams and Cultural Oppositions.” Chapter in What is College Level Writing. P. Sullivan and H. Tinberg, eds.  NCTE 2006.

“Believing and Doubting as Hermeneutic Method: Reading and Teaching Paradise Lost.” Journal of the Assembly for Advanced Perspectives on Learning. Forthcoming, 2010.