Rhetoric and Reality : Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900 - 1985
Berlin here continues his unique history of American college composition begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1984), turning now to the twentieth century. In discussing the variety of rhetorics that have been used in writing classrooms Berlin introduces a taxonomy made up...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
1987.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | Berlin here continues his unique history of American college composition begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1984), turning now to the twentieth century. In discussing the variety of rhetorics that have been used in writing classrooms Berlin introduces a taxonomy made up of three categories: objective rhetorics, subjective rhetorics, and transactional rhetorics, which are distinguished by the epistemology on which each is based. He makes clear that these categories are not tied to a chronology but instead are to be found in the English department in one form o. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780809386857 |