Okay, not really.
The list below is of the top ten CCC articles as measured by the number of times that they are cited by subsequent CCC articles. It's not exactly the be-all, end-all of bibliometrics, but rather a single dimension of what would have to be a much more extensive data set (if I wanted to start making substantial (and substantiable) claims).
But from my perspective, it's another of those little pieces that makes CCC Online interesting for me to work on. I've set up a page that will update as we add/index more content both forwards and backwards in time.
- (11) Ellen Cushman. The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change.
- (11) Susan Wells. Rogue Cops and Health Care: What Do We Want from Public Writing?
- (11) Jacqueline Jones Royster. When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own.
- (10) Anne Ruggles Gere. Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition.
- (8) David Bartholomae. Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow.
- (8) Bruce Herzberg. Community Service and Critical Teaching.
- (7) Rhonda Grego and Nancy Thompson. Repositioning Remediation: Renegotiating Composition's Work in the Academy.
- (7) Maxine Hairston. Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing.
- (6) Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner. Dispositions toward Language: Teacher Constructs of Knowledge and the Ann Arbor Black English Case.
- (6) Gesa E. Kirsch and Joy S. Ritchie. Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a Politics of Location in Composition Research.
If I have a little time in the next day or two, I'll add a column in the table with the year that the article was published as well, although rolling over the links will flash their month/year combo. Interesting to note, perhaps, that the most recent article on this list comes from December 1997 (Ball & Lardner). It makes sense that there would be some lag between publication and subsequent citations, but the majority of articles on this list are more than a decade old. I leave it to you to hypothesize what this might mean...
At the very least, I suppose, a list like this would be a place to begin for someone new to the field--there are worse ways of figuring out where to start.
That's all...
