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A chronological view of Thomas Kent's publications and their reception across four decades of rhetoric and composition scholarship.

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Primary Works
Secondary Reception
AI Reception
1984ReceptionArticle

Point-Driven Understanding: Pragmatic and Cognitive Dimensions of Literary Reading

Russell Hunt & Douglas Vipond

1985ReceptionArticle

Dialectics of Coherence: Toward an Integrative Theory

Louise Wetherbee Phelps

1985ReceptionArticle

Writing and Knowing: Toward Redefining the Writing Process

James Reither

1986PrimaryBook (revised dissertation)

Interpretation and Genre: The Role of Generic Perception in the Study of Narrative Texts

Thomas Kent

1986ReceptionArticle

The Ecology of Writing

Marilyn Cooper

1986ReceptionBook

The Structure of Written Communication: Studies in Reciprocity between Writers and Readers

Martin Nystrand

1986ReceptionArticle

Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal

Lester Faigley

1987ReceptionBook

Invention as a Social Act

Karen Burke LeFevre

1989PrimaryArticle

Beyond System: The Rhetoric of Paralogy

Thomas Kent

1989PrimaryArticle

Paralogic Hermeneutics and the Possibilities of Rhetoric

Thomas Kent

1989ReceptionJournal Article

The Paralogic Nature of Rhetoric

Thomas Kent

Wave 1: Origins

1991PrimaryArticle

On the Very Idea of a Discourse Community

Thomas Kent

1993PrimaryBook

Paralogic Rhetoric: A Theory of Communicative Interaction

Thomas Kent

1993ReceptionEdited Collection

Professional Communication: The Social Perspective (co-edited with Charlotte Thralls)

Nancy Roundy Blyler

1994PrimaryArticle

Interdisciplinary Research and Disciplinary Toleration: A Reply to Kitty Locker

Thomas Kent

1994ReceptionArticle

Review of Paralogic Rhetoric

Reed Way Dasenbrock

1994ReceptionBook

Literacy, Ideology, and Dialogue

Irene Ward

1994ReceptionArticle

Toward a Post-Process Pedagogy

Anthony Paré

1995ReceptionDissertation

Rhetoric and metaphor in the emergence of modern physics

R. D. Johnson

1996ReceptionArticle

Guessing Games: Envisioning Audience for Dialogic Pedagogies

Julie Drew

1996ReceptionJournal Article

Guessing Games

John Drew

Wave 1: Early Reception

1997PrimaryBook chapter

The Consequences of Theory for the Practice of Writing

Thomas Kent

1997ReceptionArticle

Beyond dichotomy: Toward a theory of divergence in composition studies

Anis S. Bawarshi

1997ReceptionArticle

Yin/yang principle and the relevance of externalism and paralogic rhetoric to intercultural communication

R. Yuan

1997ReceptionJournal Article

Beyond Dichotomy

Anis Bawarshi

Wave 1: Early Reception

1997ReceptionJournal Article

Yin/Yang Principle and the Relevance of Externalism and Paralogic Rhetoric

Ronggui Yuan

Wave 1: Expansion

1999PrimaryEdited book

Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm

Thomas Kent, ed.

1999ReceptionEdited Collection

Post-Process Theory

Thomas Kent (ed.)

Wave 2: Consolidation

2001ReceptionArticle

Finitude's Clamor: Or, Notes toward a Communitarian Literacy

Diane D. Davis

2001ReceptionReview essay

Of pre- and post-process: Reviews and ruminations

Richard Fulkerson

2001ReceptionJournal Article

Of Pre- and Post-Process

Richard Fulkerson

Wave 2: Debate

2001ReceptionJournal Article

Finitude's Clamor

Donald D. Davis

Wave 2: Debate

2002PrimaryBook chapter

Paralogic Rhetoric: An Overview

Thomas Kent

2002ReceptionDissertation

The substance of style: Invention, arrangement, and paralogic rhetoric in the composition classroom

D. C. Cautrell

2002ReceptionArticle/Paper

Towards a hermeneutic understanding of programming languages

Clay Spinuzzi

2002ReceptionArticle

Post-Process 'Pedagogy': A Philosophical Exercise

Lee-Ann M. Kastman Breuch

2002ReceptionArticle

Towards a Hermeneutic Understanding of Programming Languages

Clay Spinuzzi

Wave 2: Expansion

2002ReceptionDissertation

The Substance of Style

David Cautrell

Wave 2: Expansion

2004PrimaryEdited book

The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric

Barbara Couture & Thomas Kent, eds.

2005ReceptionArticle

Playing to the tune of electracy: From post-process to a pedagogy otherwise

Sarah J. Arroyo

2005ReceptionJournal Article

Playing to the Tune of Electracy

Sidney I. Arroyo

Wave 3: Digital Turn

2006ReceptionDissertation

The post-process movement in rhetoric and composition: A philosophical hermeneutic reading of being-in-the-world with others

M. A. R. M. Elgeddawy

2007PrimaryArticle

The 'Remapping' of Professional Writing

Thomas Kent

2007ReceptionBook

Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process

H. Foster

2007ReceptionDissertation

Modern writers, modernist problems: A rhetorical hermeneutic approach to the discourses of Anglo-American modernism

M. M. Heard

2007ReceptionBook

A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity

Byron Hawk

2007ReceptionBook

Networked Process

Heather Foster

Wave 3: Digital Turn

2008ReceptionArticle

What Should We Do with Postprocess Theory?

Matthew Heard

2008ReceptionDissertation

Mapping a Post-Process Dialogics for the Writing Classroom as Public

E. Donnelli

2009ReceptionDissertation

Weblog writing and post-process ecocomposition theory in secondary English instruction

J. R. Peterson

2011ReceptionBook chapter

Reassembling Postprocess

Byron Hawk

2011ReceptionEdited Collection

Beyond Postprocess (editors)

Sidney I. Dobrin, Jeff Rice, and Michael Vastola

2012ReceptionArticle

Cutting the edge of the will to truth; Or, how post-process pedagogy is biting its own tail

D. Kopp

2012ReceptionDissertation

Re-articulating postprocess: Affect, neuroscience, and institutional discourse

J. R. Talbot

2013ReceptionBook

Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being

Thomas Rickert

2013ReceptionBook

After Pedagogy: The Experience of Teaching

Paul Lynch

2015ReceptionDissertation

Composing place

S. M. Pedersen

2016ReceptionArticle

Around 1986: The externalization of cognition and the emergence of postprocess invention

K. M. Lotier

2016ReceptionDissertation

Beyond Words: A Post-Process Business Writing Pedagogy

A. M. Lloyd

2016ReceptionJournal Article

Around 1986

Kylee Lotier

Wave 4: Historicization

2018ReceptionBook

Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object

Byron Hawk

2019ReceptionBook

The Animal Who Writes: A Posthumanist Composition

Marilyn M. Cooper

2019ReceptionBook

The Animal Who Writes

Marilyn Cooper

Wave 5: Posthuman Composition

2020ReceptionThesis

Thomas Kent's Paralogic Rhetoric as a Framework for Analyzing Corporate Social Responsibility Discourse

D. E. Penner

2020ReceptionThesis

Paralogic Rhetoric and CSR Discourse

D.E. Penner

Wave 5: Applied Theory

2020ReceptionThesis

Paralogic Rhetoric as a Framework for CSR Discourse

D.E. Penner

Wave 5: Applied Theory

2020ReceptionThesis

CSR Discourse and Paralogic Rhetoric

D.E. Penner

Wave 5: Applied Theory

2021AI EraBook

Postprocess Postmortem

Kristopher M. Lotier

Wave 5: Retrospective

2022ReceptionArticle

Postprocess Postmortem

J. Tham

2022ReceptionDissertation

Blocks World

E. C. Perry

2023ReceptionArticle

Post-Process but Not Post-Writing: Large Language Models and a Future for Composition Pedagogy

S. S. Graham

2023AI EraJournal Article

Post-Process but Not Post-Writing: Large Language Models and a Future for Composition Pedagogy

S.S. Graham

Wave 6: AI Era

2024AI EraPreprint (SSRN)

The Unbearable Lightness of Inventing: Postprocess in the Age of Generative AI

David Smith

Wave 6: AI Era

2024AI EraJournal Article

Balancing Methodological Openness and Control in TPC-UX Pedagogy

Paul Hunter

Wave 6: AI Era

2024AI EraBlog (Academic Publisher)

Bits on Bots: Process, Post-Process, and AI—Navigating the New(ish) Normal

Jeanne Beatrix Law

Wave 6: AI Era

2025ReceptionArticle

后过程写作的概念内涵, 演进历程与当代启示 [Concept, evolution, and contemporary implications of postprocess writing]

Li Xi

2025ReceptionDissertation

Distributing Composition: Rhetorical Agency in First-Year Writing

Elizabeth Novotny

2025AI EraSubstack Essay

Post-Process Writing Theory: An in-Draft Literature Review

Jeanne Beatrix Law

Wave 6: AI Era