Peter Leslie Mortensen

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• 2015

  Afterword

  Mortensen, P. L., 2015, Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, place, and cultural resistance. Webb-Sunderhaus, S. & Donehower, K. (eds.). Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, p. 199-212 (Place matters: new directions in Appalachian studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2012

  The work of illiteracy in the rhetorical curriculum

  Mortensen, P., Dec 2012, In: Journal of Curriculum Studies. 44, 6, p. 761-786 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • illiteracy 100%
  • literacy 40%
  • narrative 7%

• Thirty-five questions

  Mortensen, P., Jan 1 2012, In: Advances in the History of Rhetoric. 15, 1, p. 109-118 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • socioeconomic development 100%
  • Archival Sources 98%
  • technical development 96%
  • research project 69%
• 2011

  Symposium: How I Have Changed My Mind

  Anson, C., Cooper, M., Desai, G., Gere, A. R., Gilbert, P. K., Gilyard, K., Harris, J., Lee, V., Miller, S., Mortensen, P. L., Shumway, D., Sommers, N. & Vitanza, V. J., Nov 2011, In: College English. 74, 2, p. 106-130 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
• 2008

  What Do We Want from Books?

  Mortensen, P. L., 2008, In: College Composition and Communication. 60, 1, p. 193-225

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
• 2007

  A response to Jean Lutes

  Mortensen, P., 2007, In: American Literary History. 19, 2, p. 482-490 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Introduction—Researching Women and Literacy: Usable Pasts, Possible Futures

  Mortensen, P. L. & Daniell, B., 2007, Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century. Daniell, B. & Mortensen, P. L. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 1-39 (NCTE-Routledge Research Series).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Preface

  Daniell, B. & Mortensen, P., 2007, Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century. Daniell, B. & Mortensen, P. (eds.). Routledge, p. xi-xiv

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

• Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century

  Daniell, B. (ed.) & Mortensen, P. (ed.), Jun 2007, New York: Routledge. 340 p. (NCTE-Routledge Research Series)

  Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book

  • Literacy 100%
  • literacy 69%
  • Rhetorical Theory 41%
  • Gender Studies 38%
  • gender studies 38%
• 2003

  "A few patchwork opinions": Piecing together narratives of U.S. girls' early national schooling

  Eldred, J. C. & Mortensen, P. L., 2003, Girls and literacy in America: Historical perspectives to the present. Greer, J. (ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, p. 23-77

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Ethics of Research and the CCCC Ethical Guidelines: An Electronic Interview with Ellen Cushman and Peter Mortensen

  Brooke, R., Goodburn, A., Cushman, E. & Mortensen, P. L., 2003, In: Writing on the Edge. 13, 2, p. 6-20 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
• 2002

  Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States

  Eldred, J. C. & Mortensen, P., Aug 2002, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 279 p. (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

  Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book

  • Composing 98%
  • Imagining 87%
  • Civics 42%
  • Schooling 34%
  • Curriculum 29%
• 2001

  Reading material

  Mortensen, P. L., Oct 2001, In: Written Communication. 18, 4, p. 395-439 45 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pollution 100%
  • Toxicity 75%
  • literacy 74%
  • demand 73%
  • Papermaking 71%
• 1999

  Figuring Illiteracy: Rustic Bodies and Unlettered Minds in Rural America

  Mortensen, P. L., 1999, Rhetorical Bodies. Selzer, J. & Crowley, S. (eds.). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, p. 143-170

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Of Handbooks and Handbags: Composition Textbook Publishing after the Deal Decade

  Mortensen, P. L., 1999, (Re)visioning composition textbooks: Conflicts of culture, ideology, and pedagogy. Gale, X. L. & Gale, F. G. (eds.). Albany: SUNY Press, p. 217-229

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Toward an Ethics of Research

  Kirsch, G. E. & Mortensen, P. L., 1999, Ethical dilemmas in feminist research: The politics of location, interpretation, and publication. Kirsch, G. E. (ed.). Albany: SUNY Press, p. 87-103

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 1998

  Going Public

  Mortensen, P. L., Dec 1998, In: College Composition and Communication. 50, 2, p. 182-205

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• "Persuasion Dwelt on Her Tongue": Female Civic Rhetoric in Early America

  Eldred, J. C. & Mortensen, P., Feb 1 1998, In: College English. 60, 2, p. 173-88 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Early America 100%
  • Persuasion 82%
  • persuasion 79%
  • Tongue 78%
  • Civics 68%
• 1996

  Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy

  Mortensen, P. (ed.) & Kirsch, G. E. (ed.), 1996, Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. 317 p.

  Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book

  • literacy 92%
  • narrative 20%

• Introduction: Reflections on methodology in literacy studies

  Kirsch, G. E. & Mortensen, P. L., 1996, Ethics and representation in qualitative studies of literacy. Mortensen, P. L. & Kirsch, G. E. (eds.). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, p. xix-xxxiv

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 1994

  Monitoring Columbia's daughters: Writing as gendered conduct

  Eldred, J. C. & Mortensen, P. L., 1994, In: Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 23, 3-4, p. 46-69 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Representations of Literacy and Region: Narrating ‘Another America’

  Mortensen, P. L., 1994, Pedagogy in the age of politics: Writing and reading (in) the academy. Sullivan, P. A. & Qualley, D. J. (eds.). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, p. 100-120

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 1993

  Gender and Writing Instruction in Early America: Lessons from Didactic Fiction

  Eldred, J. C. & Mortensen, P., 1993, In: Rhetoric Review. 12, 1, p. 25-53 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• On authority in the study of writing

  Mortensen, P. & Kirsch, G. E., Dec 1993, In: College Composition and Communication. 44, 4, p. 556-572 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Ethics of Care 65%
  • Death of the Author 57%
  • Erasure 47%
  • writer 34%
  • death 30%
• 1992

  Analyzing talk about writing

  Mortensen, P. L., 1992, Methods and methodology in composition research. Kirsch, G. E. & Sullivan, P. A. (eds.). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, p. 105-129

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Reading Literacy Narratives

  Eldred, J. C. & Mortensen, P., 1992, In: College English. 54, 5, p. 512-539 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Literacy Narrative 100%
  • Literacy 52%
  • literacy 36%
  • narrative 32%
  • Schooling 19%
• 1990

  Understanding readers' conceptions of audience: Rhetorically challenging texts

  Mortensen, P. L., 1990, A sense of audience in written communication. Roen, D. H. & Kirsch, G. E. (eds.). Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publishing, p. 267-279 (Written Communication Annual; no. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 1989

  Reading authority, writing authority

  Mortensen, P. L., 1989, In: Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy. 21, p. 35-55

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 1986

  Reading Students’ Invisible Texts: Evaluating Writing Processes

  Tomlinson, B. & Mortensen, P. L., 1986, In: Journal of College Reading and Learning. 19, 1, p. 91-98 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review