Deb Martin's list (2008):



Here, I searched for?disabilities studies in first year composition textbooks not only to assist instructors in selecting an accessible and DS content-inclusive text, but to draw attention to the current need in FYC for writers and publishers to utilize DS. Please use the following information as a means to begin a textbook search, or as springboard in creating more modernized and appropriate materials.The purpose of this assessment of popular FYC textbooks is to not “add-and-stir” (disability to composition courses) but to treat disability as “a social construction, a critical modality, and a community issue” by not simply including disability, but by including disability studies (Price 54).Deb Martin’s?“Add Disability and Stir: The New Ingredient in Composition Textbooks”?(click?here?to get your free desk copy from Bedford/St. Martin's)?studied composition textbooks including essays pertaining to disability, and, through Martin’s work,?I found that just adding a text(s) about disability, or a text with an author who has a disability, is not the way to bring disability studies into the classroom—it does more harm than good:?It simplifies, essentializes, and/or dichotomizes (77) disability:?usually presented as a pro/con debate?“or as just another unexamined kind of difference in a long line of difference, that is, the pluralist approach” (78),?the tendency to promote an us/them divide,?and the use of constricting formats?(“institutional sanctioned versions of dis-ability, in the form of encyclopedias, medical texts, programs administrators, and legislative-debate transcripts” [81])?create an atmosphere which causes students to?“relate to dominant ideology and speak to mainstream culture while suppressing marginalized voices” (82).?While the focal point here is?to?locate disability studies in FYC texts, I've also considered how (in)accessible these texts are, and many contain online resources accompanying the physical text. I've dropped the website URL into an?Accessibility Checker. The key terms the checker uses are located in the Microsoft Word document linked?here.????Deb Martin's list (2008):Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric, and Handbook?3rd ed. by Susan Bachmann and Melinda BarthRhetorical Contexts?by Suzanne Strobeck Webb and Lou Ann ThompsonCultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past?by Stephen Dilks, Regina Hansen, and Matthew ParfittIn Context: Participating in Cultural Conversations?by?Ann Merle Feldman, Nancy Downs, and Ellen McManusUncommon Threads?by Robert D. Newman, Jean Bohner, and Melissa Carol JohnsonPatterns for College Writing?by Laurie Kirszner and Stephen MandellThe Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing?by John D. Ramage, John C. Bean, and June JohnsonMy List (2014):Axelrod, Rise B. & Cooper, Charles R.?The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing.?9th ed.The St. Martin's Guide to WritingThe authors of this rhetoric?have included one reading in which mental disability is presented: HYPERLINK "" Richard A. Friedman’s “Born to Be Happy, Through a Twist of Human Hard Wire”. However, in the activity following the reading, the authors encourage students to describe someone who they think might be?hyperthymic?or?dysthymic?based solely on one short reading describing the traits of people with these mental disabilities. This activity is not only harmful to people who are hyper/dysthymic, but it also reinforces society’s stereotype of people with mental disability as dangerous and essential to be labelled for the safety of the public.The?online resources website for this text (theguide) has two errors present:??document language missing and no heading structures.Axelrod, Rise B., Cooper, Charles R., & Warriner, Alison M.?Reading Critically Writing Well.?10th?ed.In the preface there is a short passage written on the accessibility of this text as it isReading Critically Writing Well?in multiple ebook formats. Additionally, student essays “Whose Body is This?” by Katherine Haines and?“Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?” by Susan Cain?touch on disabilities studies are included.Integrated media comes with this reader:??empty links, document language missing, missing alternative text, and skipped heading level.Bartholomae, David & Petrosky, Anthony.?Ways of Reading.?9th ed.DS content available is?Eula Biss’s “Pain Scale.”? ?Following this work in?Ways of Reading,?the author has created an exceptionally long follow-up sections such as "Questions for a Second Reading," "Assignments for Writing," and "Making Connections."?Bedford / St. Martin’s online resources?contain 36 major errors including: ?Document language missing, Empty button, Missing and alternative text, Spacer image missing alternative text,?Linked image missing alternative text, and Missing form label.Ways of ReadingFeldman, Anne Merle, Nancy Downs, and Ellen McManus.?In Context: Participating in Cultural Conversations.?1st?ed.Deb Martin listed this in her essay "Add Disability and Stir", but I thought the whole disability studies unit was powerful, and thus I choose to include it again. This rhetoric and reader contains a whole unit titled “Deliberating about Disability” which is 50 pages long and entails:Paul K. Longmore’s “The Second Phase: From Disability Rights to Disability Culture"Simi Linton’s “Negotiating Disability”Michael Berube’s “Life as We Know It”James S. Brady’s “Save Money; Help the Disabled”The New York Times editor’s “Blank Check for the Disabled?”Excerpts from the Senate Debate on the Americans with Disabilities Act and from the Americans with Disabilities ActRosemarie Garland-Thomson’s “The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks from the Wheelchair?”Palmquist, Mike.?Joining the Conversation: A Guide for Writers.?2nd.Joining The ConversationDS content appears in the text as?Colorado State Programs and People’s website “Animal Welfare and Autism Champion”?and?“Emotional Correctness” by Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel, MD.?However, the “Animal Welfare and Autism Champion” website irks me as the focus of the website content is the identity of associate professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University as an autistic animal-lover. Palmquist encourages several questions at the end which could be associated with DS if the instructor coaxes the conversation either in the direction of disabilities defining a person or the over-coming disability narrative?(see?“Overcoming the Overcome” by Manuel Herrero-Puertas): “Aside from sharing the accomplishments of one of its faculty members, what reasons might Colorado State University have for profiling Temple Grandin? In what ways does the profile illustrate broader issues?”?Some readings shown in the table of contents are strictly in the e-pages available on a site with:?empty links, document language missing, missing alternative text, skipped heading level.Wardle, Elizabeth & Downs, Doug.?Writing about Writing.?2nd ed.?Writing About WritingDisability content consists of two essays entitled?“Writing with Four Senses: A Hearing Impaired Person’s Writing” by Lauren Perry?and?“Blogging the Recovery from Anorexia: A New Platform for the Voice of ED” by Ann Cochran.?Note that these two works are not located in the physical book but within the epages. If students buy a used book, they would need to purchase the epages access code to read these works.?This reader has?an access code to integrated media and epages:?document language missing.Lunsford, Andrea A.?The Everyday Writer.?5th ed.Despite the lack of essays, this is a handbook, the author does include snippets of disabilities studies. For example, under the section on argument, Lunsford?analyzes a Prozac ad from the 1960s where the medication is?shown as a laundry detergent box with the caption “Wash Your Blues Away!”The Everyday WriterProzac ad from 1960sThe author shows us potential claims/arguments that could be made by viewing this advertisement such?as “[p]harmaceutical companies want to convince consumers that taking drugs to cure depression is no more serious than trying a new detergent.” This look at argument through the Prozac advertisement is just one page, but it encourages disabilities studies discussion in the classroom. Still under the same argument section, a student argument essay entitled “Devastating Beauty” by Pfeifer discusses images in the media and how women see themselves.? The author annotated this work to point out her argument, evidence, and appeals to logic/emotion.This 640 page text is brightly colored and has tabs-dividers labeling each?section. Because it is very graphic (pictures, charts, comics, clipart, ?like Losh’s?Understanding Rhetoric, the online resource website contains ?34 missing document language errors with several minor errors.Lunsford, Andrea A., Ruszkiewicz, John J., & Walters, Keith.?Everything’s an Argument.?6th ed.DS content with this reader:Lia Hardin’s “Cultural Stress Linked to Suicide”?(student essay)Manasi Deshpande’s “A Call to Improve Campus Accessibility for the Mobility Impaired” (student essay)Excerpt from?Anne E. Becker’s “Television, Disordered Eating, and Young Women in Fiji”Excerpt from?Charles A. Riley II’s “Disability and the Media; Prescriptions for Change”Michele J. Bornert’s “Three Blog Postings from?Deaf Expressions”Everything's An ArgumentThe 988 page text comes with free e-pages; my instructors copy did not have this code and I was unable to access the site to review the accessibility.? Because it is from Bedford / St. Martin’s I can assume that this site also carries several errors codes found through all Bedford online resources. ................
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