The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007
Teaching Nonfiction in AP English: A Guide to Accompany 50 Essays (with Larry Scanlon). Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005.
Amy Tan in the Classroom: “the art of invisible strength” (with Deborah Wilchek). NCTE, 2005.
Marcia Meyers / Twenty Years: Paintings & Works on Paper 1982-2002. 2004.
Essay: Reading with the Writer’s Eye (co-author, Hans Guth). Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company. 1984 (first edition), 1986 (second edition).
A Practical Rhetoric for College Writers (co-author, Evelyn Taylor). Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company. 1980.
Contributed texts include:
- Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Writer in Front of the Sun by Carol Jago. NCTE, 2006.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism. Reprints of articles on Edwidge Danticat and Ana Castillo. 2002
- Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: Do Not Forget to Reach by Carol Jago. Interview reprinted. Urbana, IL: National Council of the Teachers of English, 2002.
- Stories in the Stepmother Tongue. Josip Novakovich and Robert Shapard, eds. Buffalo, New York: White Pine Press, 2001
- Caribbean Women Writers. Harold Bloom, ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.
- Teaching the Short Story: A Guide to Using Short Stories from Around the World. Bonnie Neumann and Helen McDonnell, eds. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1996.