Topographies:
James Berlin. Rhetoric and Reality Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985
Lester Faigley. "Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal." CE 48.6 (October 1986)

Cognitive Rhetorics of Composing:
Davida Charney. "From logocentrism to ethocentrism"
J.R Hayes, J. R. (1996). "A new framework for understanding cognition and affect in writing."
Maxine Hairston, "The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the revolution in the teaching of writing."

(neo)Expressivist Rhetorics:
Elbow, Peter. (1999). "In defense of private writing: Consequences for theory and research."
Peter Elbow, from Writing Without Teachers
Ken Macrorie, "Writing Freely" from Telling Writing
Gradin and Zebroski. From Romancing Rhetorics: Social Expressivist Perspectives on the Teaching of Writing.

Social Epistemic Rhetorics:
Patricia Bizzell, "Cognition, Convention, Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing.
Kenneth Bruffee, "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind'"
James Berlin. "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class"

Non-Foundational Challenges:
Harkin and Schilb. Contending with words
Michelle Ballif. "What Is It That the Audience Wants?" and "Seducing Composition"
Diane Davis. "Finitude's Clamor"
Cynthia Haynes. "Writing Offshore."
Geoff Sirc. English Composition As a Happening
Hélène Cixous. 3 Steps on the ladder of Writing
Jacques Derrida. Of Grammatology
Jean-Luc Nancy. "Why Write?" (from Birth to Presence
Michel Foucault. "What is an Author."
Avital Ronell. "Confessions of an Anacoluthon"
Roland Barthes. "To Write: An Intransitive Verb?"
George P. Landow. Hypertext 2.0