Janice M. Lauer Rice (November 18, 1932 - April 7, 2021)[1] was an American scholar of composition, rhetoric, and linguistics.
Corbett, and George Yoos decided to create what would become the Rhetoric Society of America while at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
[3][4] Lauer held regular summer seminars on current theories of teaching composition.
[3] In 1980, Lauer founded one of the first doctoral programs in rhetoric and composition at Purdue University in 1980.
[2][1][4] Working with Muriel Harris, she was instrumental in hiring Patricia Sullivan and James Berlin.