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Composition In The University : Historical and Polemical Essays /

Composition in the University examines the required introductory course in composition within American colleges and universities. Crowley argues that due to its association with literary studies in English departments, composition instruction has been inappropriately influenced by humanist pedagogy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Crowley, Sharon, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1998]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Composition in the university
  • The toad in the garden
  • The bourgeois subject and the demise of rhetorical education
  • The invention of Freshman English
  • Literature and composition : not separate but certainly unequal
  • Terms of employment : rhetoric slaves and lesser men
  • You can't write writing : Norman Foerster and the battle over basic skills at Iowa
  • Freshman English and war
  • Around 1971 : the emergence of process pedagogy
  • The politics of composition
  • A personal essay on Freshman English
  • Composition's ethic of service, the universal requirement, and the discourse of student need.