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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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Auteur principal: Berlin, James A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780809386857