Contents -- Foreword: Defining Composition Studies . . . Again, and Again - Andrea A. Lunsford -- Introduction: How Did We Get Here? - Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda -- I: The State of the Field(s) -- 1. Creation Myths and Flash Points: Understanding Basic Writing through Conflicted Stories - Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington -- 2. Teaching Composition in the Multilingual World: Second Language Writing in Composition Studies - Paul Kei Matsuda -- 3. Remapping Professional Writing: Articulating the State of the Art and Composition Studies - Tim Peeples and Bill Hart-Davidson -- 4. Writing Center Scholarship: A "Big Cross-Disciplinary Tent" - Lauren Fitzgerald -- 5. WAC's Disappearing Act - Rita Malenczyk -- 6. Scholarly Positions in Writing Program Administration - Jeanne Gunner -- II: Innovations, Advancements, and Methodologies -- 7. Reimagining the Nature of FYC Trends in Writing-about-Writing Pedagogies - Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle -- 8. Transfer, Portability, Generalization: (How) Does Composition Expertise "Carry"? - Christiane Donahue -- 9. Writing Assessment in the Early Twenty-first Century: A Primer - Kathleen Blake Yancey -- 10. Studying Literacy in Digital Contexts: Computers and Composition Studies - Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe -- 11. "What Goes On Here?": The Uses of Ethnography in Composition Studies - Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater -- 12. Archival Research in the Field of Rhetoric and Composition - Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa S. Mastrangelo -- 13. Writing Pedagogy Education: Instructor Development in Composition Studies - Heidi Estrem and E. Shelley Reid -- Afterword: Redefining the Ineffable -- Or, Creating Scholarly Presence and a Usable Future: An Editor's Perspective - Deborah H. Holdstein -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Authors.