JOURNAL ARTICLES AND SHORTER PIECES

ESSAYS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

“Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003): Some Personal Reflections.” EME: Explorations in Media Ecology 3.1 (2004): 17-30.

“In Memoriam: Walter J. Ong, SJ: 1912-2003.” College Composition and Communication 55 (February 2004): 411-13.

“In Memoriam: Walter J. Ong, S. J. (1912-2003).” Christianity and Literature 52 (Summer 2003): 451-56.

“Ong’s Thought as Framework and Orientation for Cultural Studies in the Humanities.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 55 (Summer 2003): 339-54.

"Symposium on Basic Writing, Conflict and Struggle, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy." College English 55 (Dec. 1993): 889-92, 901-03.

The authors involved in this symposium discuss points raised in two articles in the December 1992 College English.

"How to Kill Higher Education." Academe 78.6 (Nov./Dec. 1992), 30-33.

This piece was published as part of a cluster of articles accompanying the report of the AAUP Committee G about the use and abuse of temporaries in higher education.

"The Wyoming Resolution, Higher Wizardry, and the Importance of Writing Instruction." College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 158-64.

This short piece was among five selections arranged as a symposium of responses about professional concerns in composition. While the Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan is not mentioned explicitly in this essay, the analysis of the intellectual processes involved in writing is deeply indebted to Lonergan's analysis of cognitive processes.

"A Defense for Requiring Standard English." Pre/Text 7 (1986): 165-80.

Reprinted in Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, and Boundaries. Ed. William A. Covino and David Jolliffe (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995, 667-78). The expanded version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New Orleans on 15 March 1986.

"Kelber's Breakthrough." Semeia 39 (1987): 27-45.

The articles in this issue are devoted to considering biblical studies in the light of orality-literacy research. My article is an extended discussion of The Oral and the Written Gospel by Werner H. Kelber.

"Early Christian Creeds and Controversies in the Light of the Orality-Literacy Hypothesis." Oral Tradition 2 (1987): 132-49.

Most of the articles in this issue of Oral Tradition were presented at the Ong Symposium at Rockhurst College, 29 July to 1 August 1985.

"IQ and Standard English." College Composition and Communication 34 (1983): 470-84.

Also see "Reply by Thomas J. Farrell" to four counterstatements in CCC 35 (1984): 469-78. This article was one focus of discussion on the forum on literacy at the 1984 MLA Convention, which forum was covered by Ellen K. Coughlin in "Literacy: `Excitement' of New Field Attracts Scholars of Literature," Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 January 1985: 1, 10. The article published in CCC is a shortened version of "IQ, Orality, and Literacy," paper presented at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education on 8 February 1985. An earlier version of this paper was presented at The Highlands Conference on Literacy '78, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on 5 May 1978.

"The Lessons of Open Admission." Journal of General Education 33 (1981): 207-18.

"Scribes and True Authors." ADE Bulletin Serial no. 61 (May 1979): 9-16.

This paper was presented at the session planned by the Association of Departments of English at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver on 30 March 1978, and at the Back to Basics Conference at Lindenwood College in St. Charles, MO, on 8 April 1978.

"The Female and Male Modes of Rhetoric." College English 40 (1978-1979): 909-21.

Also see the response to a comment on this article in CE 41 (1980): 590-93.

"Differentiating Writing from Talking." College Composition and Communication 29 (1978): 346-50.

"Developing Literacy: Walter J. Ong and Basic Writing." Journal of Basic Writing 2 (Fall/Winter 1978): 30-51.

"Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz." College English 38 (1976-1977): 443-59.

Reprinted in A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Random House, 1987. 27-44.

"Reading in the Community College." College English 37 (1975-1976): 40-46.

"Open Admissions, Orality, and Literacy." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 3 (1974): 247-60.

NOTES, BOOK REVIEWS, AND ABSTRACTS

"The Key Question: A Critique of Professor Eugene Webb's recently published review essay on Michael Franz' work entitled Eric Voegelin and the Politics of Spiritual Revolt: The Roots of Modern Ideology." Voegelin Research News, vol. 3, no. 2, April 1997 [Electronic newsletter].

Rev. of Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan. Duluth News-Tribune (9 April 1995): 7E.

"Heidegger on Appeal: An Exchange." [Letter.] First Things Serial No. 41 (March 1994): 2.

Rev. of Rhetorical Grammar by Martha Kolln. College Composition and Communication 43 (May 1992): 269-70.

Rev. of Oral and Written Communication: Historical Approaches, edited by Richard Leo Enos. College Composition and Communication 42 (1991): 256-58.

"The Antecedents of King's Message." [Letter.] PMLA 106 (1991): 529-30.

" Hopkins and Personalism." Rev. of Hopkins, the Self, and God by Walter J. Ong. Cross Currents 37 (1987-1988): 493-94.

"The Gospel Oral and Written." Rev. of The Oral and the Written Gospel by Werner H. Kelber. Cross Currents 35 (1985): 350-52.

Rev. of Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong. College Composition and Communication 36 (1985): 363-65.

"Gawain's Wound." [Letter.] PMLA 100 (1985): 97.

"On Biology and Composition." University Bookman 24 (1984): 42-44.

"Oral Culture and Religion." Rev. of Bemba Myth and Ritual by Kevin B. Maxwell. Cross Currents 34 (1984): 357-60.

"Two Comments on James Sledd's `In Defense of the Students' Right.'" College English 46 (1984): 821-22.

"Gospel, Oral and Written." [Letter.] Commonweal (24 February 1984): 100.

"Democratic Capitalism and Psycho-cultural Evolution." Catholicism in Crisis 2.1 (December 1983): 41-43.

"A Comment on Anderson's `Language and Success.'" College English 45 (1983): 616-18.

"Introducing Walter Ong, S.J." Catholicism in Crisis 1.10 (September 1983): 5-6.

" Havelock on Literacy." Rev. of The Literature Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences by Eric A. Havelock. Cross Currents 33 (1983): 214-16.

Rev. of Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness by Walter J. Ong. Review for Religious 42 (1983): 152-54.

Rev. of The Presence of the Word by Walter J. Ong. Review for Religious 42 (1983): 156-57.

"Ong's Summary." Rev. of Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong. Cross Currents 32 (1982): 364-65.

"Single Course of Studies for All Seen as Most Sensible School Plan." Rev. of The Padeia Proposal by Mortimer J. Adler. The Kansas City Times (17 September 1982): A-14.

Rev. of Academic Turmoil by Theodore L. Gross. Review for Religious 41 (1982): 146-47.

Rev. of Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness by Walter J. Ong. America (27 June 1981): 532.

"Ong's Noobiology." Rev. of Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness by Walter J. Ong. Cross Currents 31 (1981): 234-36.

Rev. of Interfaces of the Word by Walter J. Ong. College Composition and Communication 30 (1979): 108-09.

Rev. of Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology by Walter J. Ong. Philosophy and Rhetoric 6 (1973): 59-61.

“Father Ong’s Long View: How World Today Got That Way.” Rev. of Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology by Walter J. Ong. St. Louis Globe Democrat (27-28 November 1971): 4H.

“From Orality to Literacy: Teaching Writing to the Disadvantaged.” Oral English [Newsletter] 1.4 (Fall 1972): 1-5.