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Before Shaughnessy : Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960.
In Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, Kelly Ritter uses materials from the archives at Harvard and Yale and contemporary theories of writing instruction to reconsider the definition of basic writing and basic writers within a socio-historical context. Ritter challenges...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in writing & rhetoric.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, Kelly Ritter uses materials from the archives at Harvard and Yale and contemporary theories of writing instruction to reconsider the definition of basic writing and basic writers within a socio-historical context. Ritter challenges the association of basic writing with only poorly funded institutions and poorly prepared students. Using Yale and Harvard as two sample case studies, Ritter shows that basic writing courses were alive and well, even in the Ivy League, in the early twentieth century. She argues not only that bas. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (191 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1336153636 9781336153639 9780809389865 080938986X |