Style and the Future of CompositionStudies explores styles potential for informing how students are taught to write well and its power as a tool for analyzing the language and discourse practices of writers and speakers in a range of contexts. ampnbsp Many college writing teachers operate under the belief that style still refers primarily to the kinds of issues discussed in Strunk and Whites popular but outdated book The Elements of Style. This work not only challenges this view but also offers theories and pedagogies from diverse perspectives that help teachers and students develop strategic habits and mindsets to negotiate languages genres and discourse conventions. The chapters explore the ways in which style directly affectsand is affected bymultiple sources of shifting disciplinary inquiry contributing new insights by drawing on research in cultural studies sociolinguistics discourse studies translingualism and writing across the curriculum as well as new approaches to classical rhetorical theory. ampnbsp The reemergence of stylistic inquiry can be used dynamically to produce new insights not only about emerging disciplinary interests but also about the study of style as a kind of language in and of itself. Style and the Future of Composition Studies demonstrates that style deserves to be a central focus of writing teaching. More than just the next style collection the book advocates for styles larger prominence in composition discussions generally. It will be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars of writing studies as well as a wider set of readers in academe. ampnbsp Contributors Cydney Alexis Laura Aull Anthony Box Jimmy Butts Mike Duncan William FitzGerald Melissa Goldthwaite Eric House TR Johnson Almas Khan Zak Lancaster Eric Leake Andrea Olinger Thomas Pace Jarron Slater Jonathan Udelson ampnbsp