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Composition-rhetoric : backgrounds, theory, and pedagogy /

Connors provides a history of composition and its pedagogical approaches to form, genre, and correctness. He shows where many of the today's practices and assumptions about writing come from, and he translates what our techniques and theories of teaching have said over time about our attitudes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Connors, Robert J., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1997]
Colección:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Connors provides a history of composition and its pedagogical approaches to form, genre, and correctness. He shows where many of the today's practices and assumptions about writing come from, and he translates what our techniques and theories of teaching have said over time about our attitudes toward students, language and life. Connors locates the beginning of a new rhetorical tradition in the mid-nineteenth century, and from there, he discusses the theoretical and pedagogical innovations of the last two centuries as the result of historical forces, social needs, and cultural shifts. This.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780822971825
0822971828
9780822939795
0822939797