Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key.” College Composition and Communication, Vol. 56, No. 2, Dec. 2004, pp. 297-328.

In the article/speech “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key,” Kathleen Blake Yancey suggests that “literacy today is in the midst of a tectonic change” (298). Yancey substantiates her argument through anecdotal evidence, statistics on English departments and education. Her purpose is to show that English studies are shifting and changing in order to advocate for transforming writing studies and developing a new curriculum to keep the field relevant. She directs her article to composition teachers who are invested in the continuance of composition studies, and her speech to the audience at CCCC, undoubtedly the same teachers. As a student and possible future teacher I found her argument compelling, although hard to follow. I feel like it makes a great speech; however, when reading it as an article I had trouble identifying exactly what point she was trying to make.