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A shared history : writing in the high school, college, and university, 1856-1886 /

"The author demonstrates that public high schools were a vital site for advanced rhetoric and writing instruction in the United States in the nineteenth century. She notes their long-neglected role in the history of composition studies and provides a shared history for secondary and college and...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lueck, Amy J., 1983- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2020]
Collection:Writing Research, Pedagogy, and Policy Ser.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : high schools, higher learning, and our histories
  • The idea(l) of the high school
  • A polished, practical, or profound education : collegiate curricula in the first ten years
  • Practical rhetoric and progressive pedagogies in the high schools
  • The "absurd effort" : the university idea and the changing high school
  • "Just on the border of the intellectual world" : Central Colored High School
  • Inventing the high school, inventing composition
  • Conclusion : blurring the boundaries; a history for writing across higher schooling